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Apple TV Denon

Hey everyone,


i ve a question. I want to connect my apple tv 2 with a denon avr 1611. And than i want to play music with the remote app without a tv. Means i want play music with the apple tv without that the tv is switched on. Can it be possible?


Thank you


Hope u r understanding my question ;)

AppleTV 2, Windows 7

Posted on Feb 18, 2012 2:33 PM

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Feb 18, 2012 4:12 PM in response to Bene007

Bene007 wrote:


i ve a question. I want to connect my apple tv 2 with a denon avr 1611. And than i want to play music with the remote app without a tv. Means i want play music with the apple tv without that the tv is switched on. Can it be possible?

The answer depends on how you're getting the audio to the receiver.


If you're using HDMI, you're subject to various HDMI issues, and the ATV can be problematic with some Denon receivers as can be determined from reading this forum. FWIW, I have an AVR-789, and the ATV definitely works over HDMI with no TV connected to the receiver. (I use my ATV solely as an Airplay audio bridge to my receiver; I don't hook the ATV up to a TV except to configure it.)


If you're using optical, it was possible to use the ATV with no TV or the TV turned off from the introduction of the ATV 2 until the 4.4 update was released in Oct 2011. Apple broke the functionality in 4.4 but fixed it in 4.4.3:


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4448


They were a tremendous number of messages posted here complaining about this bug between 4.4 and 4.4.3, but they have subsided, so I guess it is fixed. I restored the 4.3 firmware to solve this and another 4.4 problem, the Airplay 2-step bug. The latter remains unfixed and requires one to switch back and forth between Airplay targets to make the ATV play audio. If you don't get mad enough to start pushing buttons, you could wrongly conclude the audio is still broken.


And yes, you can use the remote app to stream iTunes content on your computer to the ATV. You can also stream content from the iPhone or whatever to the ATV.

Apple TV Denon

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