Apple TV Video Out To Native Possible?

Is there a way to get the Apple TV to output native resolution instead of upscaling it to the resolution of the TV?
If you have a mixe of 480P and 1080P movies to stream but prefer that the outboard preamp do the video scaling
instead of the Apple TV is that possible?

Not sure what you mean by "not possible with any device"?
I have a lot of devices that will pass thru native resolutions to an external scaler.
The Apple TV does have an auto setting to detect the full resolution of the display device you are using via HDMI.
What I am asking has nothing to do with black borders, I am asking about resolution despite the aspect ratio of the original image. I do see a setting like I said that shows Auto or several other resolutions, what I was looking is simply a video pass thru so that an external scaler can handle it.

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thanks,
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I have a G5 and a Radeon 9650...everything is fine except:
I would like to have S-Video out to preview my video scenes on a preview monitor!
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I thought that I will have to flash the card, but that should not be so much of a problem.
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Based on my own testing, the distinctions between an HD-DVD movie (which are true 1080) and an Apple TV video converted as its own maximum settings (which is 720) is actually quite noticeable if you have a 1080 TV set, but at the same I don't consider it a show-stopper. I watch a lot of HD broadcast content that's only 720p, and it's still very good.
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