How to connect Apple TV to an older TV?

I used to connect my iPad to the TV through a specific lead which had the red/yellow/white inputs (sorry - not sure of the technical term!) and that worked really well - when I lost my iPad and replaced with the newer version, this lead would no longer work and only gave me audio through the TV.  Therefore I was considering using the Apple TV, but our TV is quite old (around 8 years).  It works perfectly well so I don't really want to replace it.  It seems our TV does not have the connections needed to use Apple TV.  In our house we have a full Airport Mac network (plus MacBook Pro & iMac) so I think everything else is ok, just not the TV...
I've taken a photo of the connections on the front of the TV (below), on the back of the TV are the usual red/yellow/white options (it was too dark back there to take the photo!).
Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to set this up - or do I need to face the fact that our TV needs to be replaced...?
Thanks to you all in advance!

This can be done - I've just connected an Apple TV 3 to my 12-year-old Samsung with good results and some limitations.
What you're showing in your picture is composite video with left & right audio. You can get HDMI to composite converters; assuming a decent converter, you'll get a picture and sound. But - with reduced quality - composite is the lowest quality of video connection available (becquse it squeezes the video into one of the 3 connectors)
Have a look at your TV's manual and see whether there are any other types of connector, possibly at the back (many TVs have loads of odd conenctions round the back).
Possible options are :
SCART (more common on European devices,so maybe not on yours)
DVI (not very common, but my old TV has DVI, so yours might)
Component video (splits the video into three channels, so you end up with 5 connections - 3 for video and 2 for audio)
If your TV isn't HD, the picture won't be perfect. If your TV *is* HD, then there should be an HDMI connector - Panasonics often have them at the back.
Hope that helps

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