The best AppleTV 4K Settings.
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2019
- In this video we address what we believe are the best settings for your AppleTV 4k to deliver great video results.
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Thank you for this video. I just switched my apple tv settings and now everything is crystal clear.
Just setting up my new TV. This is the most helpful video I have ever seen on the subject. Thank you!!!
Randomly found this video and I'm so glad that I found it! Thank you so much for this! Now I'm watching the latest Avengers movie the way it was intended 🙌😁
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I set up how you suggested here and the difference is like night and day. My screen looks so much better now! I’m amazed. Thank you so much!
This was very helpful, i use a Philips 70" 4k tv and the picture got so much better with these settings ! :)
The SDR advice was simple yet amazing, thanks!
I am glad this came up on my recommended. Your explanation of match range is perfect for understanding and fixing what was frustrating me between watching some darkly lit vids on CZcams vs the same on Apple Music while in HDR.
Thank you so much , I’ve been trying to work it out for a long time and you just fixed it.
That was so helpful, thank you! I’ve had my HDR setting wrong all this time and now the display looks so much better!
Great video folks! My Apple TV 4k is my primary source for viewing 4k content. Off to reset my AppleTV 4k I go! Thank you much. UPDATE: I put the exact same settings on my Apple TV that you did in your video. Watched some HDR, and SDR content. The picture quality is awesome. Thanks again!
Agree with previous comments. SDR setting advice completely changed the color coming out of my projector for the better. Liked!
Just like you said, I enabled HDR when setting it up and the screen immediately washed out. Glad I found this video.
I dont get it whi use SDR stings when I got HDR tv???
Thanks. Simple to follow, great explanation. Well done and greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the tips. These little adjustments made a world of difference!
Thanks for the advice man. I changed it to SDR and changed the other options and now my blacks look great! Cheers!
Thanks for the clarity
I’m doing everything u said in video..thanks 👍 I have Apple tv 4k and lg 49sk8500 😁
Just wow! Thanks for taking the time to put this video out there. My Apple TV picture is amazing now!
Excellent advice. I just made the adjustments and the picture is much more rich! Thank you for the tip.
Thanks for the helpful tip on SDR setting!
My Samsung Q95T TV does not support Dolby Vision and when I use Apple TV 4K box and set picture format to HDR, I noticed almost all movies are forced to Dolby Vision and always appear to be darker and less sharp compare to the built in Apple TV APP. I thought there was something wrong with my TV but now after I set it to SDR everything is much brighter and sharper! Thanks again!! :)
You have forever changed my viewing experience!!! I was wondering why the quality looked horrible. Thanks!
I have an Apple TV 4K with an LG OLED 4K. My settings of HDR 4:2:2 is wrong all this time. I remember getting my television back in 2016 and only knew that 4K, OLED and HDR are good for a TV. I had no idea about HDMI 1.4 vs 2.0 vs 2.1, refresh rate, bit depth, bitrate, nits or chroma. Life would be so much easier if Apple would just hurry up and make their very on OLED television set.
Ur a life saver! Just got another tv and even tho I have a 1080 p it no longer looks washed out! I just selected 1080 SDR and it worked!
I had match content enabled, but glad to discover using 4k SDR 60 instead of enabling HDR. Test and works smoothly.
Good stuff guys. This is so important to get right. Thanks for the clear explanations.
Great tips! Thnx 👍🏼
Did these changes and it made a massive difference..Thank you
Thanks...got my AppleTV 4K working perfect...
Awesome informative video, I chose to use HDR in setup, because I have an HDR tv, so obvious choice right? Once I changed to your settings, all was right in the world. In Apple TV HDR mode, it locked the settings for my qled samsung tv. Also a lot of shows were very dark on Netflix. All is fixed now, THANK YOU!!!
Interesting, definitely going to give this a try.
Thanks! Glad I watched the video. No clue why it showed up but what a gem. The picture is great.
Thanks for this guys, very helpful. Was not aware that setting output to HDR forces everything into HDR.
Gold, I have been struggling with this HDR setting for 12 months. Thank you.
Life saver! Excellent advice.
hey pogo. didn’t expect to see you here lmao
Brilliant! Thanks so much for information and taking the time to do this.
Andrew, flipping through CZcams and bang! There you are ready to help me get my Apple TV set right! Great to see you!
Thanks for the video I noticed everything was looking in Dolby vision and looked darker.
Not sure I fully understand. But if your TV is DV capable and has been properly setup or even calibrated then it should look fine. HDR and Dolby Vision can look bad if forced to a display that is not setup for it or enabled. Look into the settings to ensure higher dynamic range content is setup on your TV on many it needs to be enabled....
Yeah sorry, everything was forced to Dolby vision which made it look darker. Now is better after changing the settings. Could you do a video on the difference between Apple TV content and playing from Blu-ray when it comes to Audio?
@@HomeTheatreEngineering netflix looks brighter and sharper on my samsung au7000 native app than on apple tv 4k Netflix which produces flickering too so strange
Myself like the other viewer just happened to come across this learning moment SHOUT OUT THANK YOU !! I’m looking forward to try it out on my new Sony 950G I’m also going to subscribe thanks again
Thank you. Hope it works out well for you
Home Theatre Engineering i have a 950g also and i find that the blacks are crushed sometimes when i watch a dolby vision movie , birds of prey for example. But the whiter scenes are always stunning, but im really annoyed by the too dark blacks. What to do?
@@sixfeetunder0105 Its hard to say without knowing everything about your system or seeing it. The most common issues are a) The TV hasn't been calibrated so black levels and white levels (brightness and contrast) are not set correctly. B) The NIT level of the TV is not sufficient for the ambient light in the room it is in. If you make the room totally black you may find it looks terrific but at daytime with the lights on it will be unwatcheable. This is something many dont realise. I often calibrate 2 settings one for daytime and one for nightime for example. The last thing is to ensure that your content and TV are doing the right thing. Is it actually displaying DV or HDR and is the content really DV or HDR etc. Often this is the other culprit.
Maxim N Have you looked at your picture presets. The 950G has 2 Dolby Vision Settings. Light and dark. Try the light setting..
Life saver for sure! Fixed my TCL 8 series. Apple tv4k was snapping to Dolby vision (notorious for too dark dark scenes) after snapping to SDR and setting both options to on its looking good
Appreciated that! Can't wait to use your guys magic on 2021 Apple TV 4K Gen2.
There's a lot to Apple TV - you ought to cover profiles in TVOS 13 and what they control.
Will see what we can do.. A bit busy but we have had a few requests so will try to get to it.
This fixed my blacks looking pixelated on a ton content
johnclark3 mine too
Man I just found this video but I too had issues with black scenes looking all pixelated...I always wondered why but now I know why and hopefully this fixes that issue!
Thank you very much. I was confused as to why my system put me to sdr with hdr capable system. The eye test told me was truly good
Cheers
Such a great video! The best I’ve found, and I’ve searched for many videos on this topic. Awesome!
I want to add a weird detail. I like the areal screen savers. They are hdr and gorgeous. If I switch the system default to sdr, I won’t be seeing them in their full glory. Plus the forced system-wide hdr doesn’t look weird for me on my Philips oled tv.
If watching HDR content and you pause the show the screensaver will show in HDR.
Symo S true
This is an interesting video, however, my experience on my Samsung HDR TV is that forced 4K HDR 60hz always looks great, ive never had an issue like you described.
With forced HDR then SDR content should not look great..? On some samsungs you need to enable HDR as I recall. But for sure non HDR and HDR content should be treated differently and you should be seeing that..?
Be careful. Sometimes HDR on all the time can wear the screen out. So I’ve heard.
@@McAdamstry Hi, no thats incorrect. HDR is quite misunderstood and this is one of those misunderstandings. If you paused a bright HDR screen image for time on some panels maybe. But thats about it.
Home Theatre Engineering ah. That’s good to know. Thanks
@@HomeTheatreEngineering my netflix on samnsunh au7000 native app looks brighter and more detailed than the netflix on the apple tv 4k so strange! Motion interpolation works best on the samsung tv native apps too! Smooth Cool soap opera effect
Best video breaking down everything from A-Z, great job !
Simple enough. Thank you very much. These settings make a huge difference.
Great to hear it, thank you too.
Why Apple doesn’t make this obvious is beyond me. Thank you.
I thought my TV sucked
Great video. Have my Apple 4K on TLC 4K HDR set up similar except for Chroma. When watching Disney plus movies it switches to Dolby Vision but screen get a bit darker compared to regular HD and 4K HDR!
That is likely a variation in your calibrations..
Excellent video guide - has improved video output quality from my Apple 4K TV. Thanks guys!
Interesting...never thought of this. I’ll try tomorrow. Thanks!
Well made video thanks I'll give it a try. Is this the same setting for my LG 4K tv?
Yes as long as your LG TV is properly set up to receive HDR 4K BT2020 video
After much experimenting with many different streaming sources, I think the Apple TV’s default settings look best. Apple’s upscaling and processing to send the TV an HDR signal is outstanding. If the picture doesn’t look right on your TV, it’s more likely to be the TV’s own HDR settings that need to be tweaked. Also, having to use different picture settings on your TV depending on which format is being used gets old quickly, especially if you use different ones for night and day viewing. I recommend leaving the Apple TV alone and tweaking the TV instead. Like the standard SDR settings, the TV’s default out-of-the-box HDR settings are probably way overcooked anyway. The Apple TV’s HDR is not.
I know you posted this a year ago but it slipped past us. Obviously people are welcome to watch and to set their system any way they want so we will not criticise that. As the video clearly shows with captured metadata the settings we propose and that are also recommended by lumagen Madvr Barco and many others result in the correct signal or output in all formats. You should not need to change anything at all on your TV so something is not right there. We do Say a TV should be calibrated because it doesn’t matter how good the signal you send it is if it is not. So far in 100% of cases we have looked at where people are not getting the correct outcome with these settings then there has been a setting missed in the TV. ..we have over 60 rooms now including our showrooms running with this config and we have measured and tested the outcome repeatedly and are getting perfect results.. hope this helps
This was really helpful! Finally watching TV the right way since buying the 4K Apple TV 🙌🏼
Thank you so much! I followed your suggestion and and it solved a flickering issue with my Apple TV in CZcams app. With your settings, flickering gone and when I’m in Disney plus AppleTV notices the Dolby vision and the logo pop up on my tv when I watch content which is Dolby vision. Just as I wanted!
Thank you for the great information. One question if I may, if your TV supports either 50hz or 60hz, is one preferable over the other? Cheers.
Well, 60Hz is more so your image is gonna look smoother with that enabled.
Is “more” what?
@@chrissnyder7968 To my current understanding of Maths, 60Hz is more than 50 Hz. Thus, selecting 60 will give you more refreshes per second (10 to be exact) and thus a smoother Image.
Use 60
if you like watching the apple aerial screensavers withour stuttering you should use SDR 60Hz.
SharkMediaServices any chance you’ve found a nice setting for 24p programs? I still find they skip a frame every once and a while? And yes it’s frustrating changing from 60 to 50 when watching local content (Australian) and then back to 60 for smooth screen savers and music videos.
@@McAdamstry we find this is very dependant on the display and how it handles motion. Have a look at your motion settings on your TV or Projector and see if this helps.
Home Theatre Engineering the Xbox one X playing 24p content has no issues. Strange that the Apple TV 4K does.
@@McAdamstry agreed though some TV's now auto switch into game mode at higher frequency when it identifies a game console. Obviously not sure what products you have but this could also be a factor..
Home Theatre Engineering thanks for the reply but I turn off game mode when watching shows on Xbox so it’s running basically the same as the Apple TV. In saying this, just watched toy story 4 on Xbox and I think I saw a judder here and there. Oh well.
My Apple TV 4k arrives tomorrow. This will be helpful in setting it up. Thank you.
Thank you for the excellent explanation.
You're an example of how things should be done. You explained things completely and gave a great tutorial. Other people on CZcams should learn from you guys. Well done. I subscribed!
Thank you so much. Appreciate your kind words. I hope we can do more to help.
The Apple TV still has a bug where if you have both frame and range match on it always goes to 12-bit colour on frame rates below 60Hz (because there is enough band width in the HDMI to support it) and this 12-bit can cause colour banding on some displays and projectors.
When you turn frame match off and fix to 60Hz the banding persists unless you reset the video options and then only set range match.
Provided your projector or TV can reverse telecine with a 120Hz panel all co tent will playback smoothly but the ATV with leave the HDR colour at 10-bit which is correct given there isn’t a single 12-bit display available on the market yet. It also eliminates colour banding.
Will check this out. Thank you!
Home Theatre Engineering No problem, I found the issue on the AVS forums from people complaint about banding when frame rates are lower.
Using the fury box you map out all the video modes the ATV uses and all HDR modes are 12-bit except the 10-bit 60Hz mode mentioned above.
The work around is reset all video setting and then force 60Hz to lock in the 10-bit colour depth.
Not sure why Apple doesn’t allow 10-bit colour on 24 and 30Hz options.
great video! I have been struggling with this since upgrading to my Epson 5040UB
Thank you for showing this it’s helped a lot . Been wanting to no how to do this for ages lol . 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello thanks for the video, I have recently upgraded to Apple 4k from a previous version of Apple TV and now my JVC LX-UH1 Projector will not pick up the signal. My TV which runs through the same Yamaha RX-A880 works fine. When I select the relevant scene on the receiver for the apple TV the projector and the receiver just appear to send the signal back and forward with a blue and black screen intermittently appearing. Any ideas as it worked fine before upgrading the Apple TV to 4K? Thanks
I would suspect the hdmi cable to the projector. Also, just check that all inputs and outputs on all devices are hdmi 2.0
One thing I noticed was that my television suddenly started changing resolutions way more often.
Would it be logical to set the format to the most often streamed resolution and then let the system figure out when to change? Most of my content is probably 1080P SDR (i.e. Television and HD Films). I do watch as much 4K format (SDR and HDR) as often as it's available, but it is still not the majority.
Any downside to this that you can see?
If you consistently watch the same content it shouldnt be changing tjat often. There may be a handshake between and sdr menus and hdr content but that should not be too bad. If you do watch the same content then for sure try it but we have not tested every configuration. We do know this caters for all options at the moment. Hope this helps?
Holy shit... I have an HDR projector and fixing this was, incredible. Thank you!
Hell of a difference thanks!
What about 4K Dolby Vision as the default Format? Have an OLED TV and it chose this. I did choose On for both on Match Content. Will this still hold true on my current setup?
From our tests the settings we proposed will still give you DV but as not all content is in DV then you will receive it as HDR10 for example. Best of both worlds
What about the screen saver video?
The screen saver and any other content will be shown in its transmitted format. You shouldnt be missing out there. But... we will test this to confirm 100%. Remember the info button on your display should nornally give you the details on the signal being recieved so you can check there too.
Home Theatre Engineering I’m only getting one screen saver video of I do the setting you said but if I got to HDR 4K 60 I get all of them any ideas why that is ?!
@@ashleyjames89 no not sure about that. We will see if this happens on our unit.
Home Theatre Engineering my mistake guess they had to download again got them all now 👍
Cool vid. Thanks for explaining.
Huge thank you for this video! Life saver!
On the video my apple tv says Dolby vision not HDR?
If you have a dolby vision compatible display then this is exactly what should happen. If I understood correctly this is working perfectly.
This is also correct. Dolby Vision and HDR10+ are consider higher versions of HDR.
Thank you so much. Now I can enjoy the full quality
Thanks for the video!! 🤙
Excellent Video! Short and to the point. Great job!
Awesome thank you ! I have been messing around now I know the right ones
Great video. Thanks from Lübeck/Germany
Thanks for AppleTV Settings review.
Video helped me out twice! Thanks!
So good I found this! I had a new TV and put the setting on HDR. I had always different and strange pictures between the different apps.
Thanks, hopefully we can help you with more...
Thanks .. very useful information for setting the HDR.
Really helpful, thank you so much!
I've had an apple TV 4K for a year now and I randomly came across and my quality just got so much better following this!!! I'm so mad I didn't find this earlier, Wtf. 🤦🏽♂️
excelente information with HDR and SDR, thanks!!!
Big help! Thank you!
Excellent video. Thank you!!
MAN this was so helpful! Looks way better!
Thank you! Since the last TVOS beta version my AppleTV started to glitch intermittently. It was driving me crazy. I’ve just came across your video, change the settings as you said, and all glitches seem to have gone. Thanks!
I wish I would have done this months ago. Glad to know now. Excellent video!
Thanks glad it helped
Thank you! 4K SD what an amazing tip!
You are welcome
Wow Thanks from Sweden now it looks much better
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Thanks, thanks, THANKS! Subscribed!
This video earned you a subscriber. I had the Match Dynamic Range and Match Frame Rate both turned on but my video settings were turned on to 4k Dolby Vision and it always turned in on and do some weird switching when playing SDR shows. Had a black screen pop up on me yesterday and while searching for that, your video popped up and glad I watched it. Thank you for the very very helpful advice.
You are welcome...
Thanks for the simple explanation for my Apple TV 4K and why! Bravo well done!👏🏻🍎📺
That was great advice picture so much clearer
Wooooooow thank you soooo much the picture is REALLY amazing now thank you
Damnnn!!!!!! My eyes feel way better now on my 4k tv and 4K TV
man your a life saver!!!! I have a brand new OLED and by default all contact was in 4K Dolby Vision and I don’t want my screen to be in this format if non Dolby Vision content is playing, you just made me happy. Thanks so much for the info 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
Same situation here
Tell me it works?
Thanks a lot. Made a huge difference!