Apple tv home theater connect?

how to connect apple tv to home theater receiver that conncts to monitor with component cables?

Theoretically you can't do that - as AppleTV and most HDMI equipped devices enforce HDCP to prevent conversion of protected digital video to analogue video you will struggle to find an easy solution.
You may find converters out there that'll convert HDMI to analogue video but they will be of dubious legality as manufacturers of devices using HDMI are supposed to block such conversions or downgrade the analogue out signal.
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    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Is there a way to connect my Apple TV with this configuration?
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    Received apple tv as gift, my tv/home theater situation has no HDMI input capabilities.  My only option is an optical connection, please give me some inexpensive optical cable suggestions???

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
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    Okay so I'm looking at purchasing a home theater system and was wanting to know the best way to connect my mid 2012 MacBook Pro to the home theater system and TV. I am wanting to play both movies (Netflix etc) and music. Will my MacBook play 5.1 surround sound to the home theater system? Whats the best way to connect this all up? MacBook audio to the home theater system via Digital Optical from the headphone port with a 3.5mm to toslink adapter and then video to the TV via HDMI cable from the thunderbolt port with thunderbolt to HDMI adapter? My thinking was to separate the video and audio to get the best picture and sound. Any help/advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

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