Connect apple remote to apple tv movie#

I use a smart power strip to control the power to the rest of the big audio system automatically along with the rest of the system, so again, only one tiny remote runs everything.

Connect apple remote to apple tv movie#

I feed the Apple TV's HDMI output into a basic Yamaha A/V receiver which feeds my TV via HDMI, and all the complex systems of my movie theater are now controlled by nothing but the tiny remote of the Apple TV!

The basic Apple system lets me store terabytes of my movies and music on a big external drive in my office with my Mac, and enjoy it all seamlessly in my dark, silent movie theater hundreds of feet away. Personally I use my Apple TV for Netflix and for playing my 25,000 song music and video library from iTunes on my Mac Pro. The basic 32GB Apple TV is all you need, unless maybe you like to play way too many video games. The newest 4K version does even more, and in 4K if you need it. I use the most basic 32GB version of the 4th generation Apple TV, and it's extraordinary. I go a few steps further and run a huge audio system, also all controlled by this same tiny remote, so for the first time ever I have a full custom home theater run off one tiny remote so my whole family can use it - not three remotes or a big, slow, clunky custom Crestron or RTI remote like in the old days just to run our TV and cable box. Since everything is controlled over HDMI from the Apple TV, you can hide your receiver and everything else in a cabinet as well. Not only can the Apple TV control all this via HDMI so you don't need any other remotes, the Apple TV remotes work over radio (RF) so you can hide everything behind your TV or in a cabinet and voilà, everything is magically controlled with nothing else visible, all from one tiny Apple remote. The 4th-generation Apple TV and newest 4K Apple TVs use HDMI CEC to allow them to control volume, power (and possibly more) for everything plugged together via HDMI.