macaholic
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Jackson Heights, NY
| Apple TV , HDMI and lack of digital sound
I have 2 Apple TV's that are not getting along with my new Sharp LCD TV. Users, of Samsungs seem to have this complaint as well. When I use HDMI to connect to the Apple TV the picture is great but sound seems to be a no go. Now this does not happen on my older LCD but I'd figure I'd ask if anyone encountered this and if they ever resolve it...
Btw, Apple as of April/08 has been telling Samsung users to use the component video output with the left right sound connected as well until they figure this minor inconvenience out.
Will
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HiVolt
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Toronto, ON
clubs: | Doesn't the AppleTV also have optical sound output that you can connect to a receiver?
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macaholic
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Jackson Heights, NY
| Yes, gotta get me some optical cable to check it out... still HDMI should work. Its getting tiring running into all these little "oopsies" just about in every Apple product line these days... not enough to make me give up but enough to annoy.
Will
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Count Zero
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Warner Robins, GA | Have any other products had trouble with those TVs? PS3s or XBox 360s or BluRay players? Just wondering. |
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macaholic
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| said by Count Zero  :Have any other products had trouble with those TVs? PS3s or XBox 360s or BluRay players? Just wondering. some folks reported issues with PS3's but that seemed to have been a while ago.... like I said Apple acknowledges the HDMI port has issues with Samsungs no real complaints from Sharp users found. My PS3 works find with the TV same HDMI ports.
Will
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Count Zero
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Warner Robins, GA | Gotcha. I was just seeing if maybe there was something weird with the HDMI on those TVs.
You aren't running your AppleTV through a receive I am guessing? |
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macaholic
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Jackson Heights, NY
| the idea was to run all HDMI through the TV and via single digital out on TV get to the receiver. Worked very well with old TV.. a little disappointed about this issue.
Will
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Count Zero
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Warner Robins, GA | Ahhhh - gotcha. My setup is exactly the opposite 
Run everything through the receiver and then single output to TV. |
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HiVolt
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| said by Count Zero :My setup is exactly the opposite Run everything through the receiver and then single output to TV. Yeah that's a great way to do it, provided you have a relatively new receiver with HDMI switching...
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thorgod
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| reply to macaholic
Hmm...come to think, my LG has some issues 'seeing' the HDMI signal at first. I haven't tried different cables (because the bastards are expensive!), but I'd always assumed it was a cable problem before it was a TV/Apple TV issue. (Mind you, I bought the expensive gold/silver HDMI cable...) So, who knows! I find it appalling that there would be any issues with a connection standard that's supposed to be vastly superior to the old RCA cables. |
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MacLeech
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| said by thorgod : I haven't tried different cables (because the bastards are expensive! Check again on those cable prices:
»www.monoprice.com/products/subde···id=10240
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dave49er
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I have a Samsung LCD with an Xbox 360, and the HDMI works fine, except that the TV doesn't recognize it when switching inputs unless the Xbox 360 is powered on. If it isn't powered on, the TV will skip right past that input. It doesn't do that for anything else, though. |
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Count Zero
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Warner Robins, GA | reply to HiVolt
Sure do - my Onkyo does full 1080p upconversion from any source (granted I only have a 720p TV). |
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