I am buying a netbook within a month, and while it's primary usage will take place on-the-go, it would be nice to take it into a friend's place and plug it into their TV. Now, I estimate 6ft to be the ...

Not likely - the video chip has to know that it needs to produce NTSC signals - basically this is something done on the second head of say a Matrox card or the ATI/NVidia setups that Dell uses. You ...