I just bought the new 2009 Mac Mini. I am trying to hook it up to and old analog TV. The TV has SVIDEO and RCA jacks. I purchased an Apple Mini DV to Video Adapter only to find out it will not work with the new model. It seems the new model only outputs DVI-D and not DVI-I.

Is there any way to hook this up? I really am not ready to buy a new TV

Thanks

Yeah, that adaptor doesn't work with the white Macbook with the 9400M, either. But, you should really get a new/used TV, or at least an LCD monitor with DVI/VGA. A nice used Dell LCD wouldn't run you much at all--start with the 2005FPW and work your way forward, whatever you can afford.

The apple Rep told me the new mac mini will output video from a MINI-DVI to VGA Adapter. Then you would need to buy a converter to convert the VGA to SVideo. This seems like a solution that will work. Has anyone tried this set up with a new mac mini and received a decent picture. Since I have an analog TV not looking to receive a High Definition picture at this point.

I looked into this quite a bit. Here is my understanding:

There is no adapter that will do this for you -- the apple rep misinformed cgabron. The 2009 Mac Mini outputs only the DVI-D (not DVI-I) portions of the signal. That is it only outputs digital signals and not analog ones.

Since all those adapters merely take map analog pins of the DVI (or DisplayPort) to the necessary output port (with maybe a little impedance matching or similarly simple circuitry as circumstances require), the lack of output on the analog pins shuts down any possibility of getting S-Video, composite or VGA.

Also be aware that if you could do this old analog TVs have a lot of overscan and therefore there is a significant chance that you would loose the menu bars and other information unless you scale down the resolution to be viewable in the visible part of the screen.

Also be aware that if you could do this old analog TVs have a lot of overscan and therefore there is a significant chance that you would loose the menu bars and other information unless you scale down the resolution to be viewable in the visible part of the screen.

I tried this on an older mac years ago and got it to work. The picture was terrible all the way around, not worth the effort.