Hi Jim, Does one need to have another Apple device in order to use the Apple TV device? Can we use services like NetFlicks with the Apple TV? Thank you, Howard #3 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kutsch, KY2D" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 9:45 AM Subject: Re: OT What is apple TV? > Barb, > Yes, most definitely. I have two of them. Essentially it's similar to a > cable box except that it interfaces your TV to the internet rather than to > the cable. It runs over CAT5 or via wireless to your home router. Note, we > don't have a TV on ours since Ginger and I couldn't see it anyway but we > have one hooked up to a stereo in the living room and the second one is in > the bedroom. We use them to stream music, have all of our personal CDs > loaded in the "music match" Apple cloud, and I also airplay various things > to the Apple TV from my iPhone. > > The Apple TV has Voiceover, the same as the iPhone and other Apple > products. > There is a very small remote control used to control the Apple TV. > > It has a connection to the TV but if you want to connect it to a stereo > instead, it only has a Toslink optical connection. If your stereo doesn't > take an optical fiber input, then you also need a Toslink optical to > analog > RCA plug adapter. I got one on Amazon for $15 or so. > > 73, Jim, KY2D > > > -----Original Message----- > From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On Behalf Of Barbara Lombardi > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 10:10 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: OT What is apple TV? > > Can we use it? > > > > Barb K1EIR