Apple TV & Denon

I have a Denon AVR 888 receiver. The receiver has 2 zones. Currently, I have my apple tv connected to the receiver via HDMI for video and Optical for sound. It plays and works great with my indoor speakers, however, I can get my Apple TV to play audio on my outdoor "zone 2" speakers.
I have been told that this particular receiver can't provide zone 2 sound unless it uses an analog connection (i.e. old red/white cables).
I'm hoping that someone has come up with a way to work around this problem. Otherwise I have to either buy a sonons/logitech or some other internet music device that has the analog connections so I can stream internet music outside.
Any suggestions would be VERY much appreciated.
Thanks so much in advance!!

Bene007 wrote:
i ve a question. I want to connect my apple tv 2 with a denon avr 1611. And than i want to play music with the remote app without a tv. Means i want play music with the apple tv without that the tv is switched on. Can it be possible?
The answer depends on how you're getting the audio to the receiver.
If you're using HDMI, you're subject to various HDMI issues, and the ATV can be problematic with some Denon receivers as can be determined from reading this forum. FWIW, I have an AVR-789, and the ATV definitely works over HDMI with no TV connected to the receiver. (I use my ATV solely as an Airplay audio bridge to my receiver; I don't hook the ATV up to a TV except to configure it.)
If you're using optical, it was possible to use the ATV with no TV or the TV turned off from the introduction of the ATV 2 until the 4.4 update was released in Oct 2011. Apple broke the functionality in 4.4 but fixed it in 4.4.3:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4448
They were a tremendous number of messages posted here complaining about this bug between 4.4 and 4.4.3, but they have subsided, so I guess it is fixed. I restored the 4.3 firmware to solve this and another 4.4 problem, the Airplay 2-step bug. The latter remains unfixed and requires one to switch back and forth between Airplay targets to make the ATV play audio. If you don't get mad enough to start pushing buttons, you could wrongly conclude the audio is still broken.
And yes, you can use the remote app to stream iTunes content on your computer to the ATV. You can also stream content from the iPhone or whatever to the ATV.

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