Cant get sound from my apple tv to play through my external speakers.

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Cant get sound from my apple tv to play through my external speakers.

Hey folks.

I have an apple TV which i've connect to my TV via HDMI cable, sound through the TV speakers. However i have an iHome external speaker set which has two types of connection inputs:

Headphone Jack 3.5mm
Component Video Output (R,B,G)

I have connected the apple TV audio output (R,W) to the Headphone input... no sound but still coming from TV speakers.

Is there any alternatives which i could use?

iHOME pictures - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/reviews/entry/ihome-ip1-studio-series-speakers- for-ipod-iphone/

Apple TV, Mac OS X (10.6.4), unable to play sound through these speakers

Posted on Jul 9, 2010 8:30 AM

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Chenks

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Jul 9, 2010 8:33 AM in response to Robrego

so you used a cable with the 3.5mm jack at one end and 2 phono connectors at the other end ?

that should work.

do you have digital audio set to "on" or "off" on the appletv?
settings > audio

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Jul 9, 2010 8:42 AM in response to Robrego

Robrego wrote:

I have connected the apple TV audio output (R,W) to the Headphone input...

I can't recall seeing inputs for headphones before, are you sure you haven't connected the tv to an output which is intended to have headphones plugged into it.

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Chenks

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Jul 9, 2010 8:44 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill wrote:
I can't recall seeing inputs for headphones before, are you sure you haven't connected the tv to an output which is intended to have headphones plugged into it.

on the rear of those speakers is a 3.5mm "line-in" which is what the OP means when they say "headphone input".

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Jul 9, 2010 8:49 AM in response to Chenks

That would be OK then.

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Robrego Author

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Jul 9, 2010 2:55 PM in response to Robrego

Ah thank you for your suggestions but i figured i needed a video output as well as a audio output onto the speakers, all sorted!

Sorry that i couldnt use your suggestions but its much appreciated!

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Chenks

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Jul 10, 2010 2:34 AM in response to Robrego

Robrego wrote:
Ah thank you for your suggestions but i figured i needed a video output as well as a audio output onto the speakers, all sorted!

that seems like a strange solution.
the speakers don't have a video input, so what exactly did you connect?

from the link you posted, the speakers have a video output, and so does the appletv, so connecting to video outputs together should do nothing at all.

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