Apple Tv 3 Optical Audio Not Working

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Does optical audio OUT work on AppleTV3? - Apple Community

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7316172

if you don't hear any sound on your Apple TV. Adjust your audio settings and check the audio after each step: On your Apple TV, select Settings > Audio & Video. Make sure Audio Out is set to Apple TV. Change the Audio Mode from Auto to 16 bit. On Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation), change the Dolby Digital Out setting from On to Off. If there's no sound when you …

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Sound on Apple TV not working. - Apple Community

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5252772

Go to your settings for audio and turn off Dolby Digital and make sure your audio is in 16-bit format. This should solve the problem. What you are describing sound like a textbook case of that problem.

Apple TV (2nd Gen) Optical Output Not Wor… - Apple Community

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3472055

The nature of the problem is that connecting HDMI and getting some level of handshaking "fixes" the optical out until HDMI is disconnected and the Apple TV has gone to sleep. When it wakes up, the optical out returns to being broken. Your problem report and solution posts are about 5 hours apart.

Apple TV4 - what happened to the optical … - Apple Community

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7499203

But my Apple TV 3 delivers perfect sound to the SONOS via the Apple TV 3's Optical Audio port (which Apple appears to have omitted on the Apple TV 4). Apparently a number of high end TV's prior to the era of "Smart TV" do not deliver audio through their HDMI ports. This design omission was easily fixed by connecting an optical cable from the Apple TV Optical …