Can anyone give me any suggestions on converting the HDV output from the Canon HV20 to composite?

Here's what I have:
HV20 Component to 32" Polaroid HDTV on audio engineer's desk,
HV20 Composite to 13" regular tv on video engineer's desk.
Both of these are working fine. 100 ft for each cable from Camera in the "attic" to the recording studio in the basement, includes going thru 35 ft of conduit.

So, What's the problem? I have "borrowed" cables for the component from another application; this must be restored before Christmas.

I have an HDMI cable running from the camera to the HDTV, and this works fine, with conditions. As soon as I plug the HDMI into the camera, I lose the analog video. Well, ok, there is a DV/HDV jack on the camera, and I connected that to a Dazzle Hollywood Bridge that I have sitting here. The Bridge doesn't work unless I lock the output to DV (from HDV) in the camera menu, but that downgrades the HDMI to 480i also. Kind of defeats the purpose of the HiDef camera.

So, does anyone know of a simple way to get fron HDV to composite video, like a Hollywood Bridge for HDV? Or must I stay with component and pull the 3 x 100' cables?

Not sure if you have the right equipment, but....

you can daisy-chain. Plug the hdmi from the hv20 to a hdtv, then use the composite OUTPUT on that tv to feed other tv's.

Note: if you need to feed more than one tv with the composite output on the HDtv then you will need a composite video amplifier

I just bought one of these for quad dvd displays in my van... it works well:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1873401&CatId=450

ohh thats greatt!!... nice work .. thanks from my side too.. for the help...
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Thanks bigbarney; excellent suggestion. I'll recheck, but I am pretty sure I checked out that possibility. The hdtv ouputs audio but not video. A 32" Polaroid. I'll check again, if lucky, maybe a menu setting???

Richard

Just checked some online specs for the Polaroid, LG and JVC hdtv, and did not find any video out; some audio out, yes, but no video out. Maybe coax pass-thru.