Appendix A. Stream Media with Airport
Apple continues to extend itself into the media world, and the AirPort system hasn’t been left out of the mix. When Apple introduced the AirPort Express, they made a big deal about AirTunes, Apple’s name for streaming music over a wired or Wi-Fi network to an AirPort Express, which could then dump that music out as analog or optical digital audio via a standard stereo mini-jack. Strangely, AirTunes never appeared in any other devices.
In late 2006, Apple revealed plans to offer the Apple TV, initially codenamed the iTV, which would stream high-definition video and digital audio over a wired or Wi-Fi network for output via HDMI (the high-definition digital video standard), composite analog, and both digital ...
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