I hope that I am not too crazy with my idea - but any feedback greatly appreciated:

 

I have an SD BV 5 which I love. Now I do love my Apple equipment as well and I have in the past connected my Powerbook via s-video to the BV 5 and the picture quality was great actually. Though now I feel I want to move on and use an AppleTV. Only problem (you might have guessed) is that my BV 5 doesnt have any DVI input (at least provided by B&O) and AppleTV doesnt "speak analogue"

 We all know though that inside every BV 5 there's a digital display ... is there any chance of pimping my BV 5 and get access to the digital bridge into the panel? Wouldnt mind paying for it at all - only any HD B&O flat panel is out of the question for the time being.

Does anyone have an idea whether through updating the panel I would get a digital port?? Before I get a screwdriver and look myself I hope that someone on the forum here can tell me more.

(Please do not move this post to the Mac thread - because I fear that it wont be read - not everyone with tech knowledge uses a mac)
 

Another forum member reported ordering this:

http://www.svideo.com/appletv2tv.html 

You may want to do a search an wait for a report. It seems easier.

The video quality on AppleTV isn't that great any way, so it's really for music. 

>>The video quality on AppleTV isn't that great any way, so it's really for music<

The aTV can decode h.264 I think, and I've seen it playing HD - it's certainly capable of very very high quality video. Read the thread in the Mac forum about connecting an aTV to an SD TV, and you'll see how it can be done very easily...

The US BV5 (even early models) have component inputs on the rear next to the masterlink socket red, green, blue which take the output of the Apple TV.  This works great and the BV5 will accept 1080i or 720p or 480p input. If you have an european BV5 then you would need a scart to component cable.  Use the STB input and set it to generic YPbPr in the external sources menu.  You will need to use the apple remote to operate it until the next software update hopefully includes the Apple TV.  This even works on any US model Avant.  Remember to hold the Plus and menu button on the apple remote to get the apple TV to switch output signal until you get a picture because the Avant only sees 480p.