You Leave your tv in standard modes unchanged from when you bought it? Then yes it does.
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Apple TV's New iPhone-Based Color Balance Feature Coming to 2015 and Newer Models
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Wouldn't this fight with a panel that had True Tone enabled? True Tone is intentionally inaccurate coloring to match the environment. Would the color balancing and True Tone work in conjunction or would both enter the Thunderdome with only one survivor emerging? - Aunty Entity
the color balance in the new LGs are very good out of the box. you mostly just need to adjust brightness/contrast for your room lighting conditions.
Yeah but those costs money. Good calibrators charge $300 this is free.
I have a Sony oled and it needed adjusting. Out of the box tv’s aren’t ever right but sure.
Most likely because it uses the more sophisticated camera system of FaceID to collaborate.
I have an LG CX and the difference after I got it calibrated is night and day.
You get what you pay for. And you aren't event calibrating the tv with this device.
I'm going to have to see some reviews on this feature before I use it. I've already got my TV calibrated with a Spears and Munsil Blu-Ray. I don't necessarily trust Apple to not jack up some of it's internal picture parameters to get me a "good" picture that no longer looks natural. The last thing I want is Apple doing it's own version of 'Vivid'.
You might want to try manually setting your ATV to 4K SDR and see if it then becomes an option.
My Sony 65A90J OLED is near perfect OOTB. I still have to adjust the slight blue push. That will be simple with my meter and Calman Bravia app. deltaE errors are all well under 3 OOTB. Don't need to waste any effort on the ATV with the iphone camera.
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If someone wants to pay a few hundred for that last few percent in picture quality they can have a calibrator come in, of course. But most people can get 95%+ of what their TV offers with just $40. It's unfortunate most people never touch the settings out of the box, which are usually atrocious.
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Under video and audio? Of course your iPhone needs to be on 14.5 and your appletv needs to be updated as well
If you know how to use the color bars on the ATV you shouldn’t need this either. But it takes years of practice without using color filters, or it takes a set of 3 color filters to look through.
Letting your phone do it seems logical, unless the result is “best buy boosted” because that’s what people like...
Letting your phone do it seems logical, unless the result is “best buy boosted” because that’s what people like...
It says right there "beacuse it's using Dolby Vision' this is code for "we can't calibrate with Dolby Vision active. It's kind of impossible to buy a Dolby Vision calibrator. Try it with it set to a normal interface setting and it'll become active.
Not if it hasn't been professionally calibrated it is't. The default (non vivid) cinema modes are good, but they still need tweaking to reach reference levels.
Usually a TON of tweaking. Buy 3 models of the same exact tv and they will be vastly different.