I recently purchased an Apple TV as well as a Samsung Surround Sound System (HT-WS1G) hoping that I could "kill 2 birds with one stone". By running the speakers through my television I thought I could enjoy the benefits of the speaker system through both regular tv as well as apple tv. It turns out that I could not run the optical cord directly to my TV so I had to run it through my HDTV cable box. This works fine for regular TV but the surround sound does not work with my Apple TV. When I use apple TV the sound only comes through the TV speakers as apposed to the surround sound. Does anyone have a way around this?
I considered buying bose speakers for my iMAC but I think I would still have the same problem in that when I use apple tv the sound comes through the TV.
I've spent hours trying to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
if so, then it sounds like your TV is unable to pass thru the DD audio to your sound system.
Very few of them let you relay digital audio from anything but internal tuners and they usually cite copy protection as the reason but it's a stupid limitaion that's usually buried in small print in the manual!