I need to go from a laptop that has VGA only, to my HDTV which has everything except VGA. I've tried the VGA-Component(RGB) adapter cables and that did not work. I also tried the VGA/DVI adapter and ...

Simple question, yet oddly hard to google: Do they add any latency? Would performance be better than a DVI-D to VGA adapter? I know they have to have a DAC because DP doesn't natively output analogue.