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Apple TV 4K didn't "wow" me.
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Charts are handy as a guide and should be used to understand the issue not say yes or no to a screen. The final say so is the person doing the watching. Eyesight differs in everyone.
It is what I am doing though getting more that replace my SD library. The keepers or WOW! films I get on bluray.
Charts are handy as a guide and should be used to understand the issue not say yes or no to a screen. The final say so is the person doing the watching. Eyesight differs in everyone.
It is what I am doing though getting more that replace my SD library. The keepers or WOW! films I get on bluray.
Human physiology is pretty well understood. How good our eyes and ears are, what we can see and hear have not changed for a very long, long time. There are exceptions, for examples, about 8 percent of the male population are color blind. a very small percent of females have four cones which allow a much greater color range.
So, in general, charts like these fit the 90 percentile group and are a good estimation tool. There's always some small plus or minus variation but as a species, our eyes and ears suck compared to others
So, in general, charts like these fit the 90 percentile group and are a good estimation tool. There's always some small plus or minus variation but as a species, our eyes and ears suck compared to others
Also, make sure your software is up to date. There was an update recently that made a big difference for me on my Sony in terms of brightness.
Paul
Paul
I think I was just tripping, I started watching my ATV again and looks amazing now. I did switch to chroma 4.2.2 so maybe that had something to do with it. Everything looks clean and prestige especially apps like HBO GO, etc.
Haha maybe not tripping buddy! It was the Christmas period where maybe everyone was streaming HD TV. In the UK, Virgin broadband goes super slow in stress were the are many customers between 7pm - 11pm so it's possible that it was your broadband that was causing your ATV to run at a low res!
Plus, some of the Hollywood films are not great in quality and for that, Apple has no control over - they are at the end of the day, an on line 'shop' they merely distribute the film - no matter how 'God like' they sometimes like to think they are
Office Christmas Party is an example were the picture was very good but the sound very compressed. Another example - today, I saw Purple Rain (Prince) a nice clean HD copy from iTunes but the sound was so disappointing - compressed and so quiet - even on maximum volume. Whereas, last night's 'Moonlight' sparkled in everyway both in picture and sound quality.Really glad that you're enjoying it!
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This guy has a simular TV with ATV 4K...
Haha maybe not tripping buddy! It was the Christmas period where maybe everyone was streaming HD TV. In the UK, Virgin broadband goes super slow in stress were the are many customers between 7pm - 11pm so it's possible that it was your broadband that was causing your ATV to run at a low res!
Plus, some of the Hollywood films are not great in quality and for that, Apple has no control over - they are at the end of the day, an on line 'shop' they merely distribute the film - no matter how 'God like' they sometimes like to think they are
Really glad that you're enjoying it!
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That sounds understandable lol. Yea I'm really enjoying it and taking full advantage of it. Of course I still enjoy my 4K blu ray player better in regards to quality but my ATV definitely does the job it has to do. I just wish every content on iTunes was in HDR for the movies but 4K is good enough for me.
In all fairness, I think you ATV will be around a lot longer than your 4K BluRay player! This Christmas here in the UK, I'm not evening seeing some films make it to BluRay let alone 4K BluRay. Some not even DVD!!! Looking at 2018 players from Panasonic etc, I can see that even the manufacturers have lost interest. It's now 2 years old which in media terms is the equivalent to 100 years
and it's just the mainstream hollywood films that are even making it to the 4k disc format.
In all fairness, I think you ATV will be around a lot longer than your 4K BluRay player! This Christmas here in the UK, I'm not evening seeing some films make it to BluRay let alone 4K BluRay. Some not even DVD!!! Looking at 2018 players from Panasonic etc, I can see that even the manufacturers have lost interest. It's now 2 years old which in media terms is the equivalent to 100 years
That is so true, there's seriously only a handful of 4k blu ray movies to purchase and the majority are like you said, the Hollywood blockbuster hits. I could literally find almost anything I want on iTunes but some are only on HD instead of 4K but I'm sure the quality will still be good with the ATV. To be honest, my main attentions was only to use my ATV but during xmas, my father bought the 4k blu ray player for me as well on top of the ATV my fiancé got for me lol.
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WOW!!! What a great Christmas you had!!! Top guy! Being honest, the ATV does a great job of upscaling HD iTunes content to 4k. I've never ever been disappointed in a HD iTunes film for picture quality. I buy a lot of independent film maker Surfing films and they are only released as downloads - iTunes or Vimeo and never make it to DVD.
I bought 'Paris Can Wait' (SONY Pictures December release) and here in the UK it hasn't even made it to DVD let alone BluRay but it made it instantly to iTunes in HD
I only have my 4K BluRay player to play discs that are not available on iTunes - Wild Style, Breakin' (both Breakdance films from the 1980s), Studio 54, The Rebound (WAS on iTunes BUT got removed in 2015!!!) and The Talented Mr Ripley. But in all fairness, only the break dance discs have been played since I got the player. Tried filling out a form to ask iTunes to consider adding them to their catalogue but it's a total waste of time dealing with Apple.
WOW!!! What a great Christmas you had!!! Top guy! Being honest, the ATV does a great job of upscaling HD iTunes content to 4k. I've never ever been disappointed in a HD iTunes film for picture quality. I buy a lot of independent film maker Surfing films and they are only released as downloads - iTunes or Vimeo and never make it to DVD.
I bought 'Paris Can Wait' (SONY Pictures December release) and here in the UK it hasn't even made it to DVD let alone BluRay but it made it instantly to iTunes in HD
I only have my 4K BluRay player to play discs that are not available on iTunes - Wild Style, Breakin' (both Breakdance films from the 1980s), Studio 54, The Rebound (WAS on iTunes BUT got removed in 2015!!!) and The Talented Mr Ripley. But in all fairness, only the break dance discs have been played since I got the player. Tried filling out a form to ask iTunes to consider adding them to their catalogue but it's a total waste of time dealing with Apple.
Dude, excellent choice on Breakin' and Electric Boogaloo; awesome classics!!! Were you actually able to find those films on 4k? If so, I'm going for the hunt tonight lol. I only have Breakin' on DVD!!!!
HA QUALITY!!! Breakin and Breakin 2 are available on Blu-Ray on Amazon - Wild Style 30th Anniversary is on iTunes USA in HD!!!!! YES I'M SO JEALOUS! Tried Emailing the film company and Wild Style asking to put them in UK iTunes but they never replied :'(
They were all very low budget films so I guess that they'll never get the 4K HDR treatment.
Breakin' was in iTunes in HD in the USA Store but i notice that it is not longer listed.
I grew up with Breakin' (BREAKDANCE THE MOVIE it was called here in the UK) AMAZING
BEAT STREET is ANOTHER CLASIC and it's in HD on iTUNES and CRUSH GROVE is another (IN HD) which is great too on iTunes.I can 100% recommend the book 'Hip Hop Raised Me' if you love breaking' - some great photos in it. The cover is a Technics SL1200!!! Brilliant read! I got it for Christmas
HA QUALITY!!! Breakin and Breakin 2 are available on Blu-Ray on Amazon - Wild Style 30th Anniversary is on iTunes USA in HD!!!!! YES I'M SO JEALOUS! Tried Emailing the film company and Wild Style asking to put them in UK iTunes but they never replied :'(
They were all very low budget films so I guess that they'll never get the 4K HDR treatment.
Breakin' was in iTunes in HD in the USA Store but i notice that it is not longer listed.
I grew up with Breakin' (BREAKDANCE THE MOVIE it was called here in the UK) AMAZING
I can 100% recommend the book 'Hip Hop Raised Me' if you love breaking' - some great photos in it. The cover is a Technics SL1200!!! Brilliant read! I got it for Christmas
Haha you're awesome Paul!!! Yea just checked iTunes and sadly Breakin' isn't on there but will be downloading Wild Style when I get home lol. And thanks for the recommendation on "Hip Hop Raised Me," I'll look into it.
You're welcome buddy. I'm the expert on breakdancing. A couple of years ago, I trained at my university gym, I made friends with some students from Paris and they were breakdancers - they travelled as far as Japan break dancing!!! They nearly fainted when they saw my lifetime breakdancing music collection in my iTunes - of course I just had to give them copies
Being honest, Breakin & Breakin Electric Boogaloo on BluRay would looking AMAZING as your 4K BluRay player will upscale the films but don't forget, they are old 1980s low budget films but that's a part of the nostalgia!!! Keep your eyes open for the ghetto blasters and CONVERSE trainers and Nikes everywhere
PS Wild Style is cool. Very jealous that iTunes have it in HD. Crazy as I saw it in HD on Netflix UK 3 years ago! Think you'll like BEAT STREET too!
Dude double disc BluRay for 15dollars. So jealous - Region 1 only. DAMN those regions on discs!
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