UR - thanks for the suggestion. I had never thought that going composite would be a good option, but for under $10, I am willing to give it a try. It would certainly be interesting to see. Fun fact...the machine that I had in the arcade prior to this one did have a video card that had output to s-video, but the drivers were so bad that I ended up using a dongle to output to component (it was an ATI video card). The only issue was that during boot-up (POST), the screen would wave, but once in Windows (XP at the time), it would run just fine, with only a few minor refresh rate issues here and there. After upgrading, I figured I would try to stick with component, but s-video proved to be better in the long run due to refresh rates. Current solutions that are $10+ a pop for my current configuration are easy and simple for me to test (of which I haven't done yet), but I've seen some that are several hundred dollars (and some just close to $100), and only want to invest the time if they have been proven by others - hence the OP. These are the ones I'm scouting around to see if anyone has tried to use them with any success.
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