Methods of playing video content from laptop on SDTV.

Title. I'm currenlty between trying to find a progressive-interlaced transcoder box (be it component or svideo out) and just using DVDRWs. Both have their perks, but I want to know what all is available, because progressive vga to interlaced component conversion seems to be somewhat rare, for whatever reason, and if I must downgrade to svideo i'd want to make sure its good svideo. I just don't know the price points on this stuff.