So, since no more optical audio out, what have you all been using for surround sound system?
Surround sound
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HDMI - that goes to the TV, which has optical audio out to my A/V surround/receiver.
See bob's suggested link for info that may help.
I have to run HDMI to my TV and then optical out to my AV receiver. This is due to a bug where the ATV screen will flash repeatedly on and off if I plug HDMI directly into my AV reciever.
Sounds to me like an issue with your AV hardware and not the Apple TV itself.
No. It's a common AV receiver with which every other HDMI device I own is fine, including 2nd and 3rd gen Apple TV units. The problem has been reported by other users (and my bug report consequently "closed as a duplicate").
Know which HDMI spec is in play with that AV receiver?
HDMI 1.4. It's not ancient by any means - a popular Yamaha 7.1 model I picked up at Best Buy about 4 years ago. I suspect something with the new Apple TV is out-of-spec. Sounds like Apple is on the case though and will hopefully (fingers crossed) have a fix soon!
Nice unit 🙂 I'm jealous!
Pls. keep us posted, thanks.