Mini display port to RCA TV

Hokay, SO
I just had a very frustrating weekend. It ended with a broken TV and a cut hand, but we won't go into that at the moment.
I bought a Mini display port to DVI cable, as well as a DVI to Video cable both from the mac store. This was so that I could use an RCA cable to connect it to my tv which is a few years old. However, it seems to me that the Mini displayport to DVI cable and the DVI to Video cable aren't even really compatable. There seem to be prongs or pins or whatever coming form the one that the other doesn't even have a slot for. So needless to say, it didn't work.
WHAT can I do to watch movies from my brand new macbook 13" on my old tv using video cables!?!?!?!

There are 3 kinds of DVI plugs: DVI-A (Analog only), DVI-D (Digital only), and DVI-I (Integrated, Digital and Analog signal). If there are no pins above the blade, it is DVI-D, which usually has compatibility problems with certain analog-only peripherals. If it does have the pins, it is either DVI-A or DVI-I, which means that it does have an analog signal. Since RCA cables use an analog signal, the DVI to RCA adapter must use DVI-A I'd imagine. I'm guessing that the MiniDP to DVI adapter uses DVI-D. I don't know why apple would do that, since they have a MiniDP to VGA adapter which uses an analog signal, so MiniDP must be able to send an analog signal (unless the VGA adapter has some converter to convert digital signals to analog). Hope that wasn't too confusing.

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Hey tjk,
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