First of all, I apologise if this has all been said before, but I've looked through various posts about this and I'm confused!
Setup : I have an old 28" curved screen Avant (with the video built in) connected to a DVD1, Sky+ box (not controlled by beo4) and a beosound 3000 which plays through the speakers in the TV.
the aux input on the beosound 3000 is connected to an Airport Express so that I can wirelessly send music to the beosound from my powerbook.
I use an iPhone with the Remote App to select the music.
It all works perfectly, but obviously the laptop has to be on (somewhere) for this to happen.
I was thinking about getting an Apple TV to solve this
as I understand it, this would bypass the need to send any mp3s through the beosound 3000 and I could mute the screen to get the same effect (without the need for the laptop to be on)
here are my questions/concerns - hope that you can help!
1) am I right in thinking that you TRANSFER all your mp3s to the Apple TV so the laptop wouldn't need to be on all the time?
2) did I read somewhere that the svideo.com converter that I keep hearing about doesn't let you play sound (just pictures) or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
3) assuming that you can hear sound, will pictures/ripped DVDs played this way look any good on the old Avant?
4) if videos with sound are not possible/will look rubbish, could I just take the audio from the Apple TV and plug that into the Beosound 3000 (solving just the problem of having to have the laptop on)
Hope that this all makes sense!