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Guys, what about something as simple as this for a mac...especially a mini with both HDMI out and minidisplay to VGA?

http://i56.tinypic.com/2s8k750.jpg

i would add 600ohm resistors between the Hsync(pin 13 to pin 5) and Vsync(pin 14 to pin 10) pins to trick the computer that a VGA monitor is connected

edit: i would merge all these ideas:

VGA to ULN200 LED driver to RGB strip(spark fun COM-10261). IF this works, then there is no reason why you cant substitute the VGA for the RGB component cables. IM not sure if the Apple TV 1 can dual output, but if it can then in theory you can run the ATV1 via HDMI to your tv and run this circuit out of the ATV1's RGB components and then you have a simple ATV1 solution.

To take it a little further: use a reverse of this http://www.monoprice.com/products/produc...1&format=2 to take the ATV2 HDMI...sort of break out the RGB of it by reverse engineering this monoprice converter and then run the HDMI back to the tv. Not sure signal quality would suffer though.

also im also not sure if some receivers can dual output. Then there would be no need to dual output nor breakout either ATV if you run it into a receiver.