Plugging apple Flat screen in mac mini.

I have just ordered a mac mini and want to plug and 'older' mac 17 inch flat screen into it, the clear bezel one, i.e. the flat screen which was out just before the current range.
It occurs to me this has an ADC connection, would I be right in guessing the really stupidly expensive adaptor apple offers is the only way to hook this up?

Unless you can find a cheaper 3rd party alternative, yes you do need the huge (apparently it's as big as your mini) and hugely expensive Apple DVI to ADC Display Adapter. The unfortunate part of ADC is that the video component is no more than s-video.

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