TV Tuner/video out

VIVO nesesary?

no one really wanted to help me, so i basically randomly looked around on newegg untill i found something like what i needed, but i know very little about this so far, so i have a few questions.

i want to have a video out, but does that mean i need a VIVO video card? or only one of those black circle shaped ports (sorry for the idiot talk). if all i need is one of those circular shaped pluggs on my vido card, do i need to buy a VIVO adapter just for the yellow female RCA plug? or does a single RCA adapter exist (like a VIVO cable minus the other 3 cables...)?

and heres another problem, i need a PCI interface as far as i know. its an older mother board, but it has sufficient memory and processing for what im going to use it for. from what i could find, VIVO dosent exist in PCI, but this may not even matter depending on the answer to the previous question.

and also, video cards 101... What does more memory mean for a video card?

sorry for being an idiot, ive never even looked into video cards because im not a gamer.

You don't need a VIVO card to output to a TV. VIVO is Video In Video Out and you only need the video out part. All you need is TV out and all but the cheapest video cards have them. You can get PCI cards which have them. Your biggest problem is that a regular TV cannot display anywhere near as good a picture as even a crummy video card hooked to a cheapo computer monitor. A computer's user interface assumes that you can display very sharp versions of small color objects. Only HDTVs have any chance of doing a decent job of displaying those kinds of images. A regular TV will do a bad enough job displaying a computer's user interface that it will be extremely difficult to operate. And that's assuming that your TV has an SVideo input rather than a plain old composite monitor input. Video cards usually have an SVideo output which you can convert to plain old composite (the yellow RCA jack) with a cable usually included with the video card. So the summary is: computer monitor output - excellent; SVideo TV output - pretty bad; plain old composite TV output - extremely bad.

More memory in a video card is used almost exclusively by video games to hold all the data needed to display 3D models. If you're not playing games then you don't need lots of video RAM.