PowerMac G3 display

I got an old PowerMac G3 B&W from a friend and it came with the matching Apple Studio CRT with VGA output. The problem I am having is getting the tower hooked into a display, it has onboard Svideo and the ATI Rage card has the Apple display port input. Is there a way I can use the svideo to get the computer to boot up and display on my TV? Im trying to use the machine as networked file storage for my MacBook

Being a G3, I suspect it's this adapter needed to hook to VGA...
http://www.topmicrousa.com/cc2275a.html
Does that look right?

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