Yes, there is a standard control channel as part of HDMI.
On 6/11/16, 5:22 AM, "Simon Fogarty" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Yeah, > >I've got a Samsung 32 inch led tv, I click one of the buttons on the apple tv >remote and the Samsung tv turns on > >It starts off at the standard tv channel and then approximately a second after >it turns on it flicks over to the correct HDMI input, >I have a blueray player connected via HDMI also and it does the same thing, >I open the disk tray of the blue ray player and the tv turns on and when I >close the tray the disk starts playing. > > >I take it this is a standard HDMI feature but then I don't know what tv >companys do. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of christopher hallsworth >Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2016 6:24 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Apple TV 4th Generation > >Sounds good, so does your Apple TV automatically switch to the appropriate >HDMI input source or does this truly depend on a feature I read about, HDMI >CEC, available on recent televisions and home theatre equipment? >> On 11 Jun 2016, at 03:31, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> Yeah my apple tv 4 gen is great, >> >> Except for when I lean on the remote and turn the tv on to the hdmi channel. >> >> It does allow you to switch the tv on automatically to the Apple tv channel >> or if your watching a tv show it switchs to the HDMI channel for the apple >> tv. >> >> I find it great for streaming tv shows and watching movies or listening to >> music from my collection. >> >> The remote took me some getting use to but I can also use my apple tv gen 3 >> remote to control my gen 4 tv. >> >> The only thing I'm not happy about is the fact the apple tv 4 gen doesn't >> have an optical output as my sound system doesn't have HDMI I used optical >> to input directly to my speakers. >> >> But still can't really complain. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jeff `greene >> Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2016 6:23 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Apple TV 4th Generation >> >> Hi Chris, >> I love my apple tv#4! I had the third gen one but it suddenly went dead. >> Yes, if you have a tv with modern hdmi ports the apple tv will turn the tv >> to the correct input when you power it on. I have a large library of tv >> shows on my mac and I mainly use the apple tv for listening to those. It >> also does pretty good with audio books except for one thing, abouut every 15 >> minutes during playback of an audio book you'll hear a "bleep" that over >> shadows the audio from the book, not a deal-breaker though! >> Hope this helps! Jeff >> >> >> On 6/10/16, christopher hallsworth <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Apologies for any references pertaining to “your owner”. That was >>> meant to be “Hannah”. >>>> On 10 Jun 2016, at 18:56, christopher hallsworth >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Evening everyone. >>>> >>>> Your owner and myself are investigating in the Apple TV 4th Generation. >>>> Apart from the book I’ve just bought from Mosen Consulting, “Apple >>>> TV 4th Generation with VoiceOver”, how are you personally finding it? >>>> One of the reasons we may be upgrading is the lack of security and >>>> bug fix updates in the Apple TV 3rd Generation and of course be up >>>> in the world <smile>. But one other somewhat mysterious reason is >>>> I’ve heard from the owner that it can change the source of an HD TV >>>> without one ever having to do it themselves. While we are no Apple >>>> engineers, we suspect it could be to do with our boxes. Any thoughts >>>> greatly appreciated. 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