TS3623 AppleTV 2nd gen intermittent audio content out.

My second generation AppleTV plays all content great to my Toshiba LED TV, but content out to the soundbar is intermittent.  iTune movie "Let Me In" doesn't but "The Replacements" works perfect and so on.  Same thing with Netflicks.  But my Blueray player using netflicks works perfect on every tittle from netflicks.  I have tested all four HDMI ports with the same result.  The AppleTV is dissapointing at this point.  Any Ideas?  Oh, the sound bar is the Polk Audio 3000.
Dave

bothfly wrote:
I have two HDTV's bought in the last 2 years and see no option on either to upscale.
Your HDTVs panels will be fixed resolution - if the input signal differs the TVs have to up/downscale accordingly.
AppleTV 1 allows you to set resolution from 480p/576p through to 1080i/p under Settings.
If your TV is 1080p and you output 720p from AppleTV, the TV upscales automatically.
If the TV has a 720p panel, but accepts a 1080p input from an AppleTV 1 it will downscale.
For what it's worth I much prefer my AppleTV 1's. I too feel there's something subjectively worse about video quality on 2, menus in particular look rough edged/pixellated compared to 1- the output may just be sharper (or non anti-aliased menus) than gen 1.
AppleTV2 definitely buffers/navigates faster and with more responsiveness, but the interface is not as polished as ATV1 and some features are still missing compared to 1 - early days though for ATV2, so I hope software updates will remedy some of these. Having recently read something about possible ATV2 revision with better CPU however, I wonder if it will have the same lifespan software upgrade wise as gen 1 did, though being iOS based this may help apart from hardware dependent things.
AC
The point was that I found the ATV1 to be better than the ATV2, IMO of course.

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