4K Screen Saver Question

[Gator5000e]

I just recently purchased a 4K television and I’m running my first generation Apple TV 4K with it. When the screen saver loads I only get one, the passing downtown Los Angeles at night. I’ve checked my settings and I have the usual screen saver options selected but it’s the only screensaver I’m getting. If I do a swipe to go to the next one, it stays stuck on the Los Angeles one.

So, is there only one screensaver for a 4K television or should I be getting the others? If I am supposed to get the others, what do I do?

Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[savagewatts]

When I first got mine it took a couple of days for them all to download. Make sure you have your wallpaper downloads set to daily in the settings

 

[Gator5000e]

Thanks for the reply. I do have it set for daily. I’ve had the ATV for a while. Well over a year, if not longer. I had a bunch before getting the new TV. So it seems I should have more than one SS. I would hate to have to do a reset.

 

[w5jck]

The screensavers seems to be a buggy area of the FW. First, like a lot of things Apple, it doesn't seem to be all that logical the way they set it up. From my experience this is what I think happens:

• New screensavers rarely get offered, however there are currently several dozen available, but you only get to see a few at a time.
• Existing screensavers rotate through a fairly long list of same, but slowly, and you only see a few at any time.
• If you have your screen set to default to SDR but match dynamic range, you get a set of non-HDR screensavers that look good, but they are not HDR so they don't look as good as the separate set of HDR screensavers.
• If you have your screen set to default to HDR but match dynamic range, you get a separate set of screensavers that look amazing, assuming you have an HDR capable TV. Unfortunately you also get a brighter interface and menus which can be distracting.
• I don't do this any more, but if you have your screen set to default to Dolby Vision, I think you get the set of HDR screensavers that look amazing, assuming you have an HDR capable TV. Unfortunately you also get a super-bright interface and menus which is definitely distracting.

I find that if you periodically change the type of screensavers to be used, even just temporarily, then switch back to aerial screensavers, a few more sometime load. It is hit and miss with screensavers though.

 

[Gator5000e]

Thanks. I have the settings at SDR 4K and Match Dynamic Range is on and Match Frame Rate is off. Leaving Match Frame Rate on gave me some really severe lip sync issues. Turning that off solved those issues.

Could these settings be limiting me to only one screen saver?

 

[w5jck]

Thanks. I have the settings at SDR 4K and Match Dynamic Range is on and Match Frame Rate is off. Leaving Match Frame Rate on gave me some really severe lip sync issues. Turning that off solved those issues.

Could these settings be limiting me to only one screen saver?

I don't think it should limit you as it never limited me to just one. But there do seem to be some bugs, so perhaps that is the problem. Try switching types of screensavers and see if that joggles the cache of screensavers. If it doesn't, try turning on HDR rather than SDR. You can always switch it back. For some reason your ATV 4K cache doesn't seem to be properly updating.

If you haven't already done so, restart the ATV 4K. Just a restart though, don't reset it as that is overkill and will take a long time to get everything back to the way it was prior to reset. Full resets seldom solve anything. Restarts often do help.

 

[Gator5000e]

Thanks for your help. I checked in previews and had 4 or 5 of them. So I will do a restart when my show is done.