Hi Thomas,
While Trip is correct (not at all unusual for him), you must focus on his first point. Even the fully ptioned Avants (including the BS-1 based Avant-US) have only 1 working Digital TV input, and that only operates at 480p. You are, of course, free to use an Apple TV with the RGB input on the Avant, but you may have to decide how you will juggle any other 'HDTV' sources. The latest version the Avant US software does support the Apple Remote...so in my case I have moved my Xbox 360 back to an S-video input, where it looks terrific, and will connect the Apple TV as the STB source when it arrives.
Just so you know, in a couple of installations I have seen here on this side of the pond, certain HD cable boxes, and SAT-TV receivers actually looked better on an S-video input than on the RGB, because it turns out that the BS-1 scaler is better than the in-built one.
I know that the backpanel set-up is somewhat different for the EU versions of the Avant, but I suspect that you'll end up with the same issue.
Russ
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