Connecting HDMI MediaCenter PC to Standard Def TV

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Published on 2009-12-22T00:14:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 19:51 UTC
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I just purchased a ASRock ION 330-HT-BD to use as my new Media Center. Sadly I still have a crappy standard-def old tube TV for the foreseeable future.

The TV has Coax & Composite (Red, White, Yellow) inputs, and my new MediaCenterr has HDMI & VGA outputs.

So my question is, how do I hook up the two together!

All of the HDMI-to-Composite cables I have found explicitly state that they can not be used to hook a PC up to a TV.

Any ideas?

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