Oh, sure, there's a workaround, but as I said, it'd cost me. Start with $150 for the new Apple TV and add another fifty or a hundred dollars for the workaround, and a new ATV would cost me at least $200, which is a pure waste of cash for a device that does nothing more for me, the music listener, or my wife, the TV watcher, than the old model, which works just as well as the new one would.
Incidentally, Roku just came out with an updated version of their streamer, and it has been panned as adding very little value. Streaming is old technology that, it seems to me, the consumer-electronics industry is trying to palm off on a gullible public as new and exciting. Streaming is great, but you need lots of bandwidth to make it work smoothly. And if you have that bandwidth, the "old" streamers work fine.
Chromecast, however, though built on old technology, is a new model, and it shows promise. At $35, buying the dongle is a no-brainer.
HDMI doesn't carry audio? If not then how does one get audio out?~KLM\\ "Antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists" ~Nikola Tesla //
On Nov 2, 2015, at 9:59 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:HDMI, but no optical audio out.No more hdmi?~KLM\\ "Antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists" ~Nikola Tesla //
On Nov 1, 2015, at 12:46 AM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:on the downside, if I bought one, I'd have to put out for new cables and a new DAC for my music (or maybe a splitter box), since they've removed the digital out
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