Can I use an Apple TV on a Mac mini/TBD instead of a TV?
I bought the 4th generation Apple TV yesterday. I don't have a TV, so I use streaming on my Macbook Pro (early 2013) or Mac mini (end of 2014), often using AirPlay. I read somewhere that any Mac with the HDMI connector will be able to connect to the Apple TV. However, when I haven't tried to put in place last night on my Mac nothing happened - no screen set. Then I created mountain BIKING with my projector and it worked fine, so I used it for a few hours.
My mac mini is connected to my Thunderbolt display. My plan was to have next to the mini ATV, connected via HDMI and we hope to activate and use the ATV through the TBD. Is there a reason why wouldn't this configuration? Or I have to change any input or output parameters?
HDMI ports are not multi directional. There are inputs and outputs, nothing which does both. HDMI ports on computers came out. On the ATV HDMI port is out. Ports HDMI TV came. Projectors have entered HDMI. As the birds and the bees, inputs connect with outputs.
I appeciate wanting to use your Thunderbolt display, but unless you can find an HDMI input or an adapter for HDMI output in thunderbolt (not the reverse adapter which are common), you're out of luck. You would need to connect directly to the screen.
Apple TV has been designed to serve your HDTV display...
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