Can Apple TV be used to make the tv the desktop display?

I would like to use apple tv to use a flatscreen TV as the desktop display while my video port is used by a projector. Is that possible with Apple TV?

No, sorry you can't do that.
AppleTV is in effect a stripped down Mac rather than a device that streams the video output from another device.
The AppleTV display output is generated by the AppleTV, so the device can only handle a limited set of media types either streamed to it wirlessly or synced to it's hard drive (plus some YouTube functionality).
AppleTV decodes and renders the media data rather than iTunes.
If iTunes rendered the data and sent the frames to AppleTV or allowed other apps to replicate the desktop it would be great, but it doesn't.
AC

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