TV signal from T60p VGA port ?

Hi !
I would like to connect my T60p laptop to a TV. I saw VGA to RCA/S-Video cables available, but they require to have support for TV (RCA/S-Video) output through VGA port.
This is the recommendation from the VGA to Svideo/RCA cable seller: "please be sure to check the manual of your system to make sure the Video Card of your system supports TV (RCA/S-Video) output through VGA port. Not every Video card will work with this adaptor. Only certain Video cards which have TV Output function built into VGA port will work through this adaptor "
Can someone tell me if the T60p ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 video adapter supports this ? so I would not need to buy a more expensive VGA to TV converter, but just get the VGA-to-Svvideo/RCA cable.
Thanks,
Laszlo

If your older TV has either component (seperate RGB inputs) or VGA input with separate left/right audio jacks, you should be able to use either Apple's component or composite video cables. I have an iPad1 and I output Netflix from my iPad using the composite video cable as iPad1 doesn't output HD video, but standard VGA. Works great!

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