Actually, yes, the Apple TV box does have an optical output. However, let me point out, that the optical output on the Apple TV is strictly for nothing but digital audio. No video whatsoever passes through the optical port. If you want to do the audio and the video through a single cable, you have to use HDMI. Your progress
Sincerely, The Constantly barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my iPhone, the only smart phone with full accessibility for the blind built-in > On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:48 PM, jeffrey greene <greenebo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, The apple tv itself has an optical output, but i think you need to > purchase the cable for it directly from apple. On the other hand, I have an > apple tv approximately one year old and its choppy both with VO and movies > through my tv’s speakers. It just started after the last apple tv software > update. I’m hoping there will be a new update to correct this. > Jeff > >> On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, I have an older Apple TV, the first model that had voiceover. I have >> it connected to a TV through HDMI. >> It works fine through the internal lousy TV speakers. When I connect my >> sound bar to the TV using the TV optical output from the TV to my sound >> bar, voiceover becomes very choppy and inconsistent, to the point to that >> sometimes I hear no voice over output at all for the currently focused menu >> item. I had this same problem with a different set up with the same Apple >> TV, and thought it was a problem with either the cable or the AV receiver I >> was using. Has anyone experienced this? I am now believing there is a >> problem with my AppleTV, and I should just go buy another one. But I would >> sure hate to get stuck with $100 loser. Still, it is hard for me to believe >> that this problem with optical outs from a TV to a sound bar or anything to >> do with optical out on the AppleTV would cause a problem. Surely, you can't >> just use it with the HDMI and your TV speakers only? >> Mary >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
