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Hands-On With the Apple TV's New Color Balance Calibration Feature
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WOW, worked on my old Samsung LN52B thats about 10, 12 years old with the AppleTV non HD, the first one that had an App Store. Made a minor adjustment to what I already had.
I was relatively happy with the results I got, it's a 2018 model so it was already reasonably calibrated and only resulted in a slightly warmer picture but that's fine by me. HDR 10 as well so many people here seem to have Dolby Vision TVs but everything in my price range was just HDR 10. I have another older cheaper TV that I used to use with pretty bad skin tones elsewhere in the house so I'm considering putting an Apple TV on that to see how the calibration tool works there.
I ran the calibration twice and I didn't have any issues when I ran the calibration, though my Apple TV is directly underneath the TV.
I ran the calibration twice and I didn't have any issues when I ran the calibration, though my Apple TV is directly underneath the TV.
Roku TV; procedure worked first time; minor appearance difference between the before and after; left it color corrected.
One of my TV‘s worked on the first try. The other had its brightness and backlight settings turned up too high so when going through the various gray tones there came a point at the end that the TV could not produce the subtle tonal differences that the phone was looking for.
Changed to the preset cinema/movie setting on the TV and it worked so I then tried custom settings that increased brightness and backlight from cinema/movie until it would not work anymore. Then I went back down to the last setting that did work. We like a slightly higher brightness for daytime viewing.
Changed to the preset cinema/movie setting on the TV and it worked so I then tried custom settings that increased brightness and backlight from cinema/movie until it would not work anymore. Then I went back down to the last setting that did work. We like a slightly higher brightness for daytime viewing.
Tried a dozen times, with different phones, restarted everything, still the same issue for me....
Also, the phone outline on screen appears twice bigger than my phone as I have an Apple TV HD and not 4K...
Any way of troubleshooting this?
Also, the phone outline on screen appears twice bigger than my phone as I have an Apple TV HD and not 4K...
Any way of troubleshooting this?
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I think my TV also does frame rate matching. I will have to test that. It's 2020 Hisense. I do get slight lip sync issues. Thanks
It worked for me on my 2017 Sony TV the first try, and I liked and switched to the recommended settings.
This is not correct. If you set up your Apple TV this way then many apps that don’t support HDR (YouTube comes to mind) will run in a fake DV mode, where SDR content gets displayed in DV.
The correct setup is to keep the Apple TV in SDR mode with match content and match frame rate.
I believe the person you quoted was just pointing out why he has not upgraded his TV. More of a separate statement, and not to indicate the settings had any impact on his blu-rays.
I wish there were a way to watch 3D movies through Apple TV. Sadly, it just means a lot of calibration of the TV picture settings, usually with the Disney WOW blu ray, and then additional tweaking of the brightness/saturation when watching 3D discs. The process can take 15-20 minutes. So being able to hold up my phone and get a beautiful color balance in less than 5 minutes without any additional hassle was a groundbreaking experience. My only complaint is that it's definitely color-balanced for movies and too warm for some live TV, particularly sports. I watched a hockey game last night, and the ice was pee yellow.
Tried it on my Samsung Plasma tv that’s at least 6 or 7 years old (I don’t remember when we bought it) and other than me not holding my phone close enough to the target the first time I didn’t have any problems. The calibrated/non calibrated pictures looked noticeably different but my wife preferred the uncalibrated one and I didn’t have a preference so we left the settings unchanged.
No problems here; worked right from the start. The differences with or without balancing are smaal, but the color balanced image is slightly warmer.
Yes, you have Dolby Vision you don't need or want the Apple first-attempt-at-calibration active.
I suggest you look in the Settings to your TV and see if Dolby Vision can be set to something other than "always use" if that is what it does. DV capable TV does NOT necessarily mean it uses DV all the time. I suspect you can set it to only use it when the programming is in DV.
You can do what you want, but your assumptions are not accurate. If for example, you set the format on the ATV 4K to the "4K SDR" option and set Match Content to the "Match Dynamic Range" option, then the following occurs:
- If the content uses DV, it will be displayed using DV.
- If the content uses HDR10, it will be displayed using HDR10.
- If the content is only SDR, it will be displayed in SDR. Menus, games, etc. will look more like they are supposed to.
The correct way is to enable Dolby Vision for a Dolby Vision TV. Period. This is the default. This is what you're prompted to do. Feel free to explain why that it is case, if the "right way" were to not do that.
If it looks better on your TV with Dolby Vision disable, your TV isn't good.