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@Chalfie
Buying a TV is a lot cheaper than a computer monitor as the resolution requirements are lower. Even a 4K tv can be bought for around £500. A second hand 40" HD TV will be around £250. A serious computer monitor of any decent size will be way more than that.
Yes. Yes it is. But you know, given the way people chuck money around on here about all sorts of other bollocks, does it matter?
A monitor is going to be too small. 40" is the minimum size you want to be thinking about for TV viewing as you're normally further from the screen.
Yes. I've come to this point too. >£500 for a >40 inch (excuse the use of non SI units, but strangely we all still use them don't we?) is a bit ouch. Also: I've looked at the distance charts and screen size, so I'm calibrated there thanks.
Assuming you have decided on ATV as the video source then you'll have to suck up the fact that this means more than one box. Most of the time these boxes are small. I use Gorilla tape and stick them to the back of my TV screen so that my space is uncluttered.
Why more than one box? this bit confuses me? I was under the impression, iplayer, itunes, amazon prime/netflix, now tv as the apps on there. There being the apple tv.
If you don't need the new features of ATV4 (games, Plex) then get an ATV3 for £40 as it has an optical audio out. you will need a optical (Toslink) to RCA adapter. I just posted a link to one this morning. Otherwise yo need a HDMI to RCA. One was posted a few pages back when this question was asked recently.
For which I have thanked everyone, probably JB and skinny actually when we started this off about a month ago. The point being I'd quite like not be running loads of little power drains, and links and stuff like that.
Most of this chat has happened between me and mashton, which is probably a bit taking over and I'm sorry for clogging up the arteries of your information pipeline to some sweet audiophile discussion with inanity. Mostly, I was bemoaning (to someone I know, well, multiple people actually) about how what could be simple is becoming overly annoying.
Much like life really.