Apple TV on non-HD television???

If you have a EDTV, one with COMPONENT inputs (green, blue, red), then it will work. Otherwise no.

The Apple TV also only outputs a 16:9 picture so your TV would need to be able to compensate for that if it is a 4:3 set.

To add to what others have said, TV has never required an HD capable TV, just ED or HD, but it does 'require' a widescreen TV. From Apple's Tech Specs page for the TV:


If your TV is 4:3 the image will be distorted (compressed horizontally, so everything's tall and skinny), unless your TV has a 16:9 mode, where it letterboxes the image.

Having said that, the other hurdle is getting your TV connected. The TV only outputs component (not composite) and HDMI, so you need a way to connect to one of those. There is a hack (cited above) for using the component output to connect to a composite input, but I don't have any direct experience with that. I wish I could give you some advice about SCART; I know there have been several discussions about that. I think it requires a converter of some kind, and if I recall correctly it may not be cheap to go from component to SCART (rather than the other way around), which is what you need. You might try searching the forums for 'SCART' and see what you turn up.

Here's some info

http://patchstick.wikispaces.com/Composite+video

I never tried it myself, having an HD TV connected via HDMI. Good luck

Another way to enable composite output is given in post #2 of this thread. Don't know if it works, but this method doesn't require any software hacks. I think that the previously popular method was similar but involved shorting some pins on the adapter. Not sure I'd wanna do that...