Our 2008-era bring screen Samsung HDTV shipped with it and all our newer HDTVs have it as well. HDMI-CEC was introduced back with the HDMI 1.3 revision in 2006 and most televisions from major brands began including it shortly thereafter (and nowadays practically all HDTVs come with it). Note: If the first time you set up your Apple TV you hooked it up to an HDMI-CEC compliant TV with the CEC settings turned on it should have auto-detected it and turned the CEC support on following along with out tutorial will allow you to check if it is on, modify it, or update it if you moved it to a new TV. Second, you need to toggle the setting on in the Apple TV. So what do you need to take advantage of this neat trick? First, you need a television that is HDMI-CEC compliant.
Now instead of simply controlling the Apple TV itself you can, through the remote and the HDMI-CEC connection, have your television automatically turn on when you pick up the Apple TV remote and press a button (including switching it to the right HDMI input if it wasn’t already on it) and the volume button on the remote will control the volume of the television or media receiver. The new 4th generation Apple TV, unlike prior iterations of the Apple TV, includes support for HDMI-CEC which greatly extends the functionality of the Apple TV remote. RELATED: How to Set Up and Configure Your Apple TVīecause of the magic of CEC we now have AV receivers, for example, that will automatically turn the attached television on when you turn the attached Blu-ray player on and TV remotes that include pause/play type buttons that can control attached devices like the aforementioned Blu-ray player. The CEC stands for Consumer Electronics Control and it allows HDMI-CEC compliant devices to use one of the wires in the HDMI cable as a communication relay to issue commands between the devices. Several years ago a new HDMI-related control standard was introduced known as as HDMI-CEC.
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