I have a Sony Wega 42 inch flat screen TV, but it only has DVI inputs. And no optical audio input. The guy at the store said there was absolutely no way to connect the new Apple TV to my Television and he could not sell it to me.
Is there no workaround for this?
iMac intel core duo, MacBook Pro 2Ghz Intel core duo, iPhone 4,
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
I'm very happy for you if your ATV2 works fine with Home Sharing, however, for a product that's only been out for 3 weeks, some of these discussion threads have several thousand views and hundreds of people posting issues with HDMI issues and Home Sharing. I have spent almost 3 weeks trying to get the thing to work (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't), I've even changed the wireless router, now I'm trying it with the never sleep option.
When it works, it's great, but when it doesn't, it's so frustrating.
On a couple of occasions I've been demonstrating it and it's failed miserably, and I was unable to get content until I restored the software, very embarrassing! I'd say mine had improved from only working 20% of the time, to now working 50% of the time.
I'd love to be one of those people that have had no problems, but unfortunately, I'm joining the (ever increasing) band of disappointed customers with this product (and no help from Apple Support, apart from telling me there is no fix, and I can have my money back).
What router do you use, and do you have any other AppleTV's in the house (I've noticed that mine tend to select the same IP address, for some reason).
Thanks.
Bob.
I'm very happy for you if your ATV2 works fine with Home Sharing, however, for a product that's only been out for 3 weeks, some of these discussion threads have several thousand views and hundreds of people posting issues with HDMI issues and Home Sharing.
I don't say others don't have issues, but it's on for people to make out that the issues you list affect every person or every box because they don't. Also, forum views aren't any indication of how many people are having the same issue, it just means people are reading.
What router do you use, and do you have any other AppleTV's in the house (I've noticed that mine tend to select the same IP address, for some reason).
I use a D-Link and no I don't have any other Apple TVs. Insanely I once had a netgear router and modem which both defaulted to the same IP even though they were sold as a working partnership! Imagine the fund and games I had resolving that conflict!
I, too, have an older HD TV. It has a DVI port, but no HDMI and no digital audio. My solution was simple, as I also have a receiver with digital audio. I hooked the Apple TV up using an HDMI to DVI cable. As DVI is a video-only standard (no audio information is carried in DVI), I used a digital audio cable to route the audio signal to the receiver. Not quite one-stop-shopping, but it worked with no problem.
I have seen HDMI to DVI cables with a separate audio connection on the DVI cable end -- a pigtail with a mini-stereo jack. I have no experience with them, however, and couldn't assure you if the output signal was even an analog one.
