HDMI output on XPS-16: Lose Standard Video?

After 5 happy years with a fully working I9300 I NEED to upgrade to a notebook that will handle Blu-ray burning , HD video editing, and output to HDMI port. I am noticing that notebooks like the XPS-16 and Sony FW series have HDMI output ports but no SVideo or Composite ports (but do have VGA 'monitor' ports which I assume are worthless for video). This is very disappointing as I surely will STILL want to output to my standard video TV or to any other screen or system with only SVideo or composite inputs.

How could I output standard video from my new PC to standard video inputs?

 

you can get a converter to go from HDMI to composite/Svideo http://www.lenexpo-electronics.com/product.php?productid=17452

the one in the link is kinda expensive but im sure if you do some searching you will find something

 

Here's a VGA to s-video converter, costs 20 cents.

http://www.amazon.com/VGA-to-S-Video-RCA-Adapter/dp/B000S675JU

 

Interesting. Sure, VGA. I just tried it VGA to VGA (I had to get a cord out of the box in the basement) to an HD television. It looked like standard video. Worked.

But most standard TVs don't have VGA input. That adapter's cheap enough to just try.

And I am sure (can someone correct me if I am wrong?) that there is no sound out on the VGA. So I'm gonna have to still use some sort of HDMI to SVideo adapter if I want any chance of getting the surround to my "legacy" equipment???

 

yeah, u won't have sound by using vga port, so u'd need another cable to have sound too. but i haven't ever see a laptop with an SVideo or Composite port, its not common at all, nowadays when everyone use digital ports (dvi, hdmi, displayport) to have perfect digital quality image and sound, such outdated port would be pretty useless, u'd loose a lot of quality by using a such port. upgrade to hdtv, u'll have to by time anyway.

 

My current notebook has a 7pin SVideo output always works to TV with sound.

I've tried a SVideo splitter to 1) RCA yellow plus 2) 4 pin SVideo plus 3) digital audio. Video always worked. I remember the digital audio worked stereo certainly but can't vouch whether surround worked on it as well.

What is "display port"?

 

Svideo is old tech now, it featured on the previous generation of laptops

 

Half the world still has RCA and SVideo component equipment. I've bought combined HD/Standard video top of the line Camcorder within last year but now I'm expected to buy a top of line BluRay notebook and not have ease of use of standard definition output (all brands that I checked). In general that punishes creativity. Us poor %^#@-ers that don't have companies that buy top of the line display equipment for them, at least.

But I'm gonna stop whining about this right NOW!

I'll get over it, and around it, no problem ...

Callin' Dell tomorrow. They still rock.