Hi all, As CB mentioned, there are a number of ways of doing this. Depending on your receiver, it may do some magic and decode your analogue signal from the TV and surround it. Most newer receivers have this capability. If you have no intention of actually using the video signal portion of the ATV, then you could simply use the optical audio from the ATV directly to your receiver and you should be able to hear everything that is to be heard and with excellent quality as well. For me, I use HDMI from the ATV to my receiver then HDMI from the receiver to the TV. Sometimes, when I'm home alone (sounds like a good title for a movie doesn't it?), I don't bother turning on the TV and everything works just fine whether I'm listening to music or simply listening to a movie. The rest of my family doesn't appreciate it that way but, oh well.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-01-08, at 8:18 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > There are a number of ways to do it. Running HDMI to the TV sets up the TV to > do the decoding but running an RCA pair from the TV to the receiver means > you're only getting stereo. Now if you only have two speakers then that's > fine but if you have the center, subwoofer and rear channel stuff you > probably want to get the full 6-channel digital signal to your receiver > somehow. Some newer receivers have HDMI inputs as well but my old Dennon just > has the optical and coaxial (RCA) digital inputs. > > CB > > On 1/8/13 10:07 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: >> For one thing, you don't run the Apple TV directly into the receiver. I >> mean, I suppose you could if you had h d m i, but me personally, I ran my >> Apple TV via HDMI into my television, then I run my television out via RCA >> to the red white RCA in on my 5.1 surround receiver. >> >> Thank you kindly, >> >> Christopher-Mark Gilland. >> Founder of CLG Productions >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Caron" <ecar...@comcast.net> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:10 PM >> Subject: Apple TV to stereo receiver >> >> >> Hi listers, >> >> I am interested in purchasing a Apple TB to use with my stereo receiver. I'm >> not sure how to do this as I understand the Apple TV has a HDMI output and >> my receiver has something called a DVD optical in put, that is square. A >> single port called a digital input that is round. and analogue input with >> RCA jacks. >> >> Can anyone let me know if they are using a Apple TV with a stereo receiver, >> and let me know if any of my input options could work? >> >> Eric Caron >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
