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Hi,
I've recently bought an Apple TV 4 and would be very happy if it were not for the fact that a lot of stuff is pixelated or grainy. The general background is not a smooth color at all, it's noisy grey, just as the settings menu. Also, the preview images of for example Netflix are very pixelated. It's as if they used low quality 50kb images for their preview cover. Same stuff at the app store and inside of apps. It all seems low quality kind of like 420p. What I've also noticed it that in the menu settings the pixelation is mainly around text.
Examples: http://static.digit.in/default/57103c4d63e15e33914cf7e753fbaad0baebe97c.jpeg
Zoom in on the play button. Every image looks like that on my Apple TV.
And http://www.how-ocr-works.com/images/compression/JPEG-text3.jpg
Text in the menu looks like this (not as bad as this example, but I can't find anything else), there is some pixelated fuzz around the text.
My tv is a Sony Bravia (2 years old) which provides 1080p resolution. The Bravia menu is quite crisp and whenever I connect my Macbook with HDMI it's very sharp as well. The reason I bought the Apple TV 4 is so I don't need to plug in my Macbook anymore, but quality is so much lower. I have tested 3 different HDMI cables and they all give the same image. I have tested several resolutions on the Apple TV, but all give the same pixelated stuff. Also tried switching the video output settings but to no avail.
What is there to be done? Can anything be done about this or do I need to accept my fate of low quality?
SOLVED! I had to adjust some settings within my tv itself for everything to return to normal. No more pixelated mess anymore, just buttery smooth images and text.
[doublepost=1484767733][/doublepost]I have solved my problem, see edit in first post.
Hi,
I've recently bought an Apple TV 4 and would be very happy if it were not for the fact that a lot of stuff is pixelated or grainy. The general background is not a smooth color at all, it's noisy grey, just as the settings menu. Also, the preview images of for example Netflix are very pixelated. It's as if they used low quality 50kb images for their preview cover. Same stuff at the app store and inside of apps. It all seems low quality kind of like 420p. What I've also noticed it that in the menu settings the pixelation is mainly around text.
Examples: http://static.digit.in/default/57103c4d63e15e33914cf7e753fbaad0baebe97c.jpeg
Zoom in on the play button. Every image looks like that on my Apple TV.
And http://www.how-ocr-works.com/images/compression/JPEG-text3.jpg
Text in the menu looks like this (not as bad as this example, but I can't find anything else), there is some pixelated fuzz around the text.
My tv is a Sony Bravia (2 years old) which provides 1080p resolution. The Bravia menu is quite crisp and whenever I connect my Macbook with HDMI it's very sharp as well. The reason I bought the Apple TV 4 is so I don't need to plug in my Macbook anymore, but quality is so much lower. I have tested 3 different HDMI cables and they all give the same image. I have tested several resolutions on the Apple TV, but all give the same pixelated stuff. Also tried switching the video output settings but to no avail.
What is there to be done? Can anything be done about this or do I need to accept my fate of low quality?
SOLVED! I had to adjust some settings within my tv itself for everything to return to normal. No more pixelated mess anymore, just buttery smooth images and text.
[doublepost=1484767733][/doublepost]I have solved my problem, see edit in first post.
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