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I recently purchased an AppleTV unit to use with my Integra DTR-8.5 A/V Receiver and my Family Room TV. For some background info, I use my Macbook Pro as the source for the music and video. For my audio and video systems, my main (Zone 1) speakers are in my family room and my Zone 2 speakers are located in several rooms in my house and on my deck. I use the Zone 1 speakers for viewing videos and TV programs and use the Zone 2 (and Zone 1) speakers when I want to listen to music throughout the house.
Like many A/V Receivers, my Integra requires analog input for its Zone 2 speakers. In addition, my 2 HDMI ports were already dedicated to my Cable (Tivo) and PS-3 inputs.
With the AppleTV, I wanted to be able to watch iTune videos and listen to my iTune music library, however, the AppleTV only has digital outputs: one HDMI and one Digital Optical Audio. There were no ports in my A/V receiver available that I could use from the AppleTV. Here is how I solved my problem (and it works great):
The ingredients necessary are: 3 Bluerigger Toslink Cables, 2 RCA Analog Cables, 1 HDMI Cable, 1 ViewHD SPDIF Splitter, and 1 Orei D/A Converter (see their full names listed below).
From the AppleTV HDMI port, I connected to my HDMI 3 input on my TV (my normal Television/Tivo input uses the HDMI 1 input). This provides the video input into my family room TV.
From the AppleTV Digital Optical Audio port, I connected a Bluerigger Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable (3 feet). This cable connects to a ViewHD SPDIF/Toslink Digital Optical Audio Splitter 1x3 (one input to Three Outputs). I only needed two outputs - one output goes unused.
From the splitter, using the first of the three output ports, I used another 3 foot Bluerigger Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable. This cable goes into an Orei DA21X Premium Optical SPDIF/Coaxial Digital to RCA L/R Analog Audio Converter with 3.5 mm Jack Support Headphone/Speaker Outputs. This converts the Digital Optical Audio into the analog input required for my Zone 2 speakers.
From the Orei converter I connected two RCA cables to the DVD analog input jacks on my Integra. This is for the analog input requirement for Zone 2.
From the second ViewHD splitter port I connected a third Bluerigger Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable (this one is 15 feet) into the Digital Optical Audio input for DVD on my Integra receiver. This provides the Zone 1 digital audio input into the receiver.
This configuration does exactly what I wanted. I have high quality video images for watching iTunes videos and for Airplay viewing. My audio comes from my A/V receiver with full 5.1 surround sound. When I want to broadcast music throughout my house, I have high quality (albeit analog) music throughout my house. Note that the Zone 2 audio quality is still great. I am very satisfied with the outcome of this rather complicated connection project.
Finally, to control all the set-up for this, I use my Logitech programmable universal remote control. To watch AppleTV, I set my TV to HDMI 3 and my A/V Receiver to DVD. To listen to music throughout the house, I also set my Zone 2 speakers to DVD.
Note that the ViewHD splitter and the Orei D/A converter each require power input so you will need another two power jacks to plug the adapters. Just more wires/cables to deal with behind your audio/video center.
I purchased all of these products using various sources from Amazon. Since Apple only provides a Digital-only AppleTV, I hope this helps some folks deal with the same type of issues. Each of the products: Bluerigger cables, Orei Converter and ViewHD splitter work great.
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