Hooking up to d-sub vga, hooking up to d-sub vga

question    has any one hook up a apple tv to a old tv with out a hdmi  plug, i do have a     rs-232,  or dvi in  ,  or  d-sub   VGA    and this is a new apple tv black.       thanks bob

Welcome to the Apple community.
You may or may not be able to use DVI, you would need to use a separate audio feed and need to check that your DVI input supports HDCP. Please note DVI is not officially supported on the Apple TV.
There are hardware converters that will convert HDMI to various other types of output, however there are some issues with doing so that you should be aware of.
HDCP
HDCP compliant converters will not allow you to watch HDCP protected content such as that from the iTunes Store. Non compliant converters exist but we cannot discuss them under the Terms of Use for these communities.
Resolution and aspect ratio
I'm not aware of any converters that will scale the output from the Apple TV, any TV or projector which is used will need to be widescreen and support resolutions of 720p.

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