ATV3 with external speakers via TV

External speakers would have to be connected via optical port on the Apple TV. If you want it to be transfered to analogue speakers you would have to go through an audio out port on your TV.

Then it would be a TV setting. I set it up this way through one of my TVs and had to change the audio to an external source for the Apple TV (HDMI) input.

Each TV will be different, that is how it was on mine. Refer to your TV manual.

You couldn't find it, doesn't necessarily mean it isn't there. Please refer to your TV manual. If it really isn't then contact the manufacturer. The setting would need to be done on your TV, it is not something that can be done via ATV.

This is a different input. Audio is sent over HDMI to your Tv, it is the TVs job to set the output to the external speaker. If you refuse to check your Tv manual there is nothing else to say.

Hello

RCA-cables are used for analog signals.

When connecting a device (for example ATV) via HDMI to TV, the sound sent is in digital format. The TV would have to convert this input signal to analog and output it to speakers, i.e it has to have a built in digital to analog converter for the sound output. I don't know how old your TV is, but the most TV sets should have this function.

The reason why the speaker set works with programs from TV is probably because you have connected the TV to an antenna, and the signal is analog.

Did you try to connect another unit with hdmi to TV and see if that works (DVD player)?

Regards

Jeton

You could also try to change sound settings on ATV.

Set the audio output mode for the Apple TV:

With your Apple Remote, select Settings > Audio & Video.

Change the Audio Output setting from Auto to 16 bit.

Turn off the Dolby Digital Out setting (your TV or receiver may not be properly detecting a Dolby Digital signal):

With your Apple Remote, select Settings > Audio & Video.

Change the Dolby Digital Out setting from On to Off.

It may be a problem with the TV's internal DAC, allowing it to convert the signal and play sound on the TV speakers, but not allowing the analog signal to output to audio out ports when input is digital. You can use the optical out from the TV also, but then you have to get an external digital to analog converter to be able to connect it with you speakers. Or you could use the optical out from the ATV as well.

For example one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Optical-Coaxial-Toslink-Converter/dp/B0074JZ8ZW

Best regards

Jeton

First of all, speakers doesn't work with digital signals, it has to be a contionous analog signal for the

speaker diaphragm to move and produce sound. Therefore, any digital sound in the end has to be converted to analog before it reaches the speaker.

Optical signals are digital, so the TV cant send analog sound via optical. In that case you either have to use a speaker system with a built in DAC with an optical input, a receiver before the speaker system, or you could use the external DAC that i linked in previous post, connection an optical cable between your TV and the DAC, and on the other side of the DAC connection the two rca- cables between the DAC and the speakers.