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Can Apple TV work with Multiple TV's?

Is there a way to hook one Apple TV up to multiple TV's to view video's at the same time? Like have one in the bedroom and one in the living room???

Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on May 29, 2007 5:23 PM

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Jun 5, 2007 2:35 PM in response to pattisnyder

Yes, you can. I have my Apple TV, DVD, and Cablebox hooked up to 6 televisions, plus audio wall controls in several rooms.

Whatever output you are using, you are going to need to split the signal and also amplify it - otherwise you'll lose signal quality. So, you need a Distributor / Amplifier that will take whatever input you want to provide it from your Apple TV and give you with multiple amplified outputs to run to different TVs.

I also had the constraint of wanting to use existing co-axial cable (i.e. a standard TV antena cable) to transmit the signal because that's what I already have run to multiple rooms. For this part, you would need an "Apple TV S-Video Converter" (do a Google search on that for a vendor). This takes the component video out from your Apple TV and converts it to an S-Video signal (i.e. a composite video signal that you can run over co-axial cable). It's true that composite video isn't as good as HDMI or component video connections, but it's perfectly workable and it makes everything else easier and less expensive presuming that you'd otherwise have to run new cables.

A final thing worth considering is a remote IR solution (such as Powermid) so that you can control your Apple TV from any room in the house.

Hope this answers your question, and good luck with it.

Can Apple TV work with Multiple TV's?

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