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Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

hofrob — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:49:38 GMT

http://www.microspot.ch/microspot/product/TV-Zubehoer/0000403977/Hama_-_Videoanschluß_-_SCART_(M)_-_RCA_(W)_-_Schwa/detail.jsf?current=0&DCSext.Ref=&R=324325403315936

Bought this and connected it to one of the non decoder scarts but no picture yet...

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

Kokomo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:26:19 GMT

I addressed this issue by purchasing a component to composite converter via eBay. Cost about 30 GBP I seem to recall. I connected then to a composite to scart plug and plugged it into one of the spare scart sockets. Not HD quality or as good as that via component or HDMI but as good it can be in the circumstances.

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

hofrob — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:02:48 GMT

Hi i am still struggling. I have an older Beosytem 2 and thus bought the first gen Apple TV. Now I am trying to connect both, I have the appropriate YUV/RGB cables as welll as the appropriate SCART adapter, now need to know to what SCART connection to connect the Apple TV (VTAPE, AV, DECODER) and what other actions need to take place to get a picture on my Beovision4?

Cheers Robert

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

Kokomo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:54:05 GMT

Thanks for that Peter. Very interesting!

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

Peter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:52:39 GMT

Hi All!

I agree, hacking and patching your new Apple TV might seem a bit scary if youre not used to do things like that..
I bought the software package from www.atvflash.com which worked perfectly for me getting colour on my BV3-32.

The installation was very easy and you can "roll back " to the original Apple TV configuration at any time and there is a lot of helpful instructions here: http://wiki.atvflash.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

The package includes NitoTv and lots of other great enhancements ( no, I dont get payed to say this..lol)

Good luck!

/Peter

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

Kokomo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:44:12 GMT

ssi76:

Hello,

Have just tried the above mentioned solution and it worked right away :-) Fantastic!! Know I can do the setup. I am still running black and white but will try the atv-flash/nitoTV yet, but I am sure it will work fine.

Thank you very much - you just saved me £90 for a converter :-)

By the way. Can really recommend apple tv as media base station fore streaming music. It really works well with the beo-link system. I you want to play music in a room without beolink you can expand your system with a airport express unit (expands your wifi network and has a minijack output) and beolab 4 speakers!!

Ones again thans to all who helped me get going ;-)

I'd love to try this 'solution' but the procedure frightens me a just a little bit to say the least! I'm nervous of corrupting the ATV software and ruining it.

By the way, you say you've tried it and it worked right away but then go on to give the impression that you've not quite done it yet and are still running in B&W. Can you explain for my benefit please?

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

ssi76 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:24:53 GMT

Hello,

Have just tried the above mentioned solution and it worked right away :-) Fantastic!! Know I can do the setup. I am still running black and white but will try the atv-flash/nitoTV yet, but I am sure it will work fine.

Thank you very much - you just saved me £90 for a converter :-)

By the way. Can really recommend apple tv as media base station fore streaming music. It really works well with the beo-link system. I you want to play music in a room without beolink you can expand your system with a airport express unit (expands your wifi network and has a minijack output) and beolab 4 speakers!!

Ones again thans to all who helped me get going ;-)

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

TWG — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:32:01 GMT

Hi,

if you have some knowledge about working with Apples Terminal Software and a SSH client under Mac OS X you don't need ANY hardware adapter!

You have to make an USB Bootstick for your Apple TV, after it is "cracked open" via software, you have to install nitoTV with a kernel extension for the composite signal and then you can use a standard rca-scart-connection to your MX :-)
The yellow video cable had to be plugged into the green output socket of your Apple TV. You will notice that you will have a immediately a black and white picture on your MX - even without hacking! For colour output the hacking is required :-)

You can connect the Apple TV via composite output (yellow videocable plus audio (L/R).
Another patch requires a HDMI-DVI-I-Adapter + a DVI-I-VGA-Adapter which should provide a simple hack. It didn't work for me, so I had to choose the long way and do it via software!

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

ssi76 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:21:36 GMT

Thank you for a quick response!! That looks like a super solution.

I have also found another solution based on s-video input (which my MX7000 has) instead of a scart input. My question now is: Does anyone know if s-video provide a better input that scart-input (picture-quality)?

S-video converter: http://www.svideo.com/appletv2tv.html

Thanks in advance :-)

Re: Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

danezro — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:35:51 GMT

I had the same problem with my Beovision 3, this is the solution...

http://www.js-technology.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=52&osCsid=36e75286a3c65307b697f755c42e7d8a

Dan

Apple TV on "old" B&O television (MX7000)

ssi76 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:11:11 GMT

Hi - cannot seem to find the correct solution.

Just bought an Apple TV which has component and hdmi output. I have tried to connect the component output to my scart-socket through a simple component/scart adapter, but that does not seem to work.

Does anyone know how to connect to a “non-flat screen” B&O TV?