s-video will give you higher quality......but the difference isnt really noticeable for anime.....since the anime was formatted to play on tvs to begin with
(although stuff like AA's old sub font was NOT)......

you dont NEED a video card with tv-out.....although it IS recommended. Mine has 1 VGA out, 1 DVI out, and 1 S-video/RCA out
so i dont need to mess with any conversion between svideo and rca. Before i got that though, i only had S-Video out, and the tv only had RCA in, so i bought an adapter (which at radio shack costed $20 [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img] )

the alternative is to buy a device that plugs into the VGA port on your video card (in case you dont know vga is the port for monitors)....and the device will split the signal into vga and rca and maybe even s-video