If you trust the connector Optical Audio To enjoy clear sound from your home stereo system, you will be in for a great disappointment with the new Apple TV, as it does not have an Optical Audio port on its back.
As evidenced by the technical specifications on the Apple website for the new Apple TV, audio and video now broadcasts over the wire HDMI. This leaves audiophiles in the market to buy the fourth generation Apple TV with two options.
They can connect the device to a Hi-Fi receiver and audio to speakers and video to TV, or as another option the use of AirPlay and AirPort Express wireless device from Apple, which has optical audio output, to feed the audio to your home theater system.
On the other hand, the fourth generation decoder has support for Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 over HDMI 1.4, a notable improvement over Dolby Digital 5.1 over its predecessor. Here are the ports and interfaces on the back of the Apple TV 4.
And now compare them with the third generation Apple TV.
It can be clearly seen that the Optical Audio port is missing from the new box. Besides the new Apple TV has two gigabytes of RAM, the same as the iPad Air 2 and twice as much as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
The maximum size of a application for the new Apple TV is limited to 200MBIn addition, third-party applications and games must be stored all data in iCloud.
The new Apple TV starts at a base price $149 and will be available at the end of October.
Likewise, there are few people who use optical audio, and what about apps may later increase the limit, but perhaps it is logical or perhaps to use them there they do not need so much, because if not for sure they would make 30gb games
Totally agree.
Well, I think there are many of us who have the apple tv connected to the HIFI receiver through the optical output.
I had planned to buy the new apple tv, but if I cannot connect it to the receiver it is useless. A shame
Look at the two options that I have put in the post, maybe there you have the solution to this problem.
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I have connected the old Apple TV with the new one via airplay and it works correctly. You only have to select the name of the old apple TV as the speaker output on the new ATV.
I'll try one thing. I will try to connect the new apple tv, via air play, with the old one. Let me tell you
With the airport express solution and its optical output, the 5.1 / 7.1 works correctly? Thank you.
Using the old appletv as a link for the sound, the movie is fully synchronized in audio and video? there is no lag ...?
How can I connect the new apple tv to my new smart tv that only has optical output and a 5.1 home cinema with optical output, with the old tv I had it connected from the tv to the home cinema for rich and had a luxury 5.1 now i'm a little lost, any help?