Xtreme dvi confusion??

just got a MBP 15"" bought the minidisplay to DVI cable, came home tried to use my old mac vga to dvi converter to plug in a vga monitor... cant , pins on my MAC vga to the new MBP dvi D converter dont match, and wont fit in the new minidisplay to DVI cable, so...after wikipedia and discovering DVI D ....went back to mac shop in brighton uk, explained about DVI D, no one new anything! swapped my mini display to dvi D for a mini display to standard vga, got home plugged monitor in woo hooo works.
Now heres my problem Im an AV performer and need s video or composite out...... am i going to have to rebuy another min disply to new dvi D, then a dvi D to analogue video output??
mac shop in brighton doesnt have DVI to composite out???
im confused any help would be appreciated
/sct
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hi thanks for the quick reply, that it ll do at a last resort ; )
It will actually have to be the first resort. There are no alternatives.
is there no mac equivilant to that ? does anyone you know if a new mac mini display to VGA then to to composite or svideo box exist???
If you're asking whether Apple makes something that will do what you want, the answer is no, and it has been no for more than a year now, so I don't expect to see Apple change its mind. Apple manifestly isn't interested in encouraging anyone to cling to these antiquated, inferior analog video technologies.
Do i have to rebuy the minidisplay to DVI D then a DVI D to s video/composit connector/box??
No, a Mini-Displayport-to-DVI adapter would do you no good at all for your purposes, and to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a DVI-D-to-S-Video/composite video connector box. You need what I specified in my previous post and nothing else, unless at other times you will want to connect to a monitor or projector via DVI. In that case you'd need to buy the MDP-to-DVI adapter and a standard DVI cable.

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