samgamegie
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It seems to me Apple TV is targeted towards the crowd that wants Bluetooth on everything and are perfectly happy with sound bars being the solution for all audio. Do I agree with ditching the Optical? Nope I like Having Options of connectivity without having to add a possibly Inferior converter into the chain even if it is just an Apple TV . I have an older Apple TV with optical out and it works well but I understand Why they may have made the decision. Possibly the same reason why the Modi Optical Does not exist anymore. We probably have all 5 People on the planet who own Apple TV's and Use the Optical output on this thread. I help a lot of people with Setting Up A/V and I am the only person I know who uses or even knows what to do with an optical out. The majority of people want the convenience of 1 cable for all so I suspect the optical output dropping off went unnoticed by a vast majority of apple customers.
I did Try a amazon HDMI to Analog converter...it sucked. Back to amazon that went.
While we are on Apple TV I suspect they have done their share of market research and still opted for a non phone/ iDevice remote. While the phone app to control the world makes for great marketing, supporting various flavors of Operating systems and updates as well as wireless protocols superseding others will also present issues long term for support. When you buy a DAC that can be upgraded and you can actually get upgrades then the chance is very good it will be around a lot longer than the lifespan of the idevices available today.
Wouldn't be great if Schiit released a better quality HDMI converter, like the Wyrd, with a HDMI input and USB or Optical outputs. It would certainly solve the problems of those of us who don't have an optical output in their apple devices (New apple TV, MacBook Air, etc..). What do you think?