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How to Use Apple TV's iPhone-Based Color Balance Feature
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I knew it wouldn’t take long, but someone over at AVS has performed some measurements on the new calibration feature and it looks to generate overall positive results. The ATV 4K appears to have some inherent green push that this feature helps compensate for. I’ll definitely be using this when it comes out on the official OS release. Not interested in beta software. My TV was calibrated using a combination of Rtings settings and a Spears and Munsil Blu-Ray, but this tool appears to take you one step closer to the perfect picture. Props to Apple for this new feature.
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Ah, I see what you’re getting at. Physicists call orange hot and blue hotter, while painters say orange is warm and blue is cool. Confusing to be sure, especially when disciplines have to talk to each other.
Tim Apple should had done this calibration before approving the new iMacs color palate
It’s a gimmick and in general will be pointless; it will be adjusted for sakes sake...calibrating a screen depends on much more than colour balance, not least on the quality of the screen and its‘ lighting abilities. When you calibrated your screen, what did calibrate against? Most people adjust their screen (actually most people don’t do anything at all) to what they like rather than what is accurate..more often than not, folks don’t like accurate because it’s not what they are used to.
Not withstanding that this is calibrating only Apple TV and not your actual TV so every other media will revert back to what you’re used to...basically it is adjusting the signal fed to the TV, so I am not even sure if it’s going to be the same for each type of program on Apple TV?
Actually so far evidence is showing that is does do something positive for picture accuracy.
That is one ugly display.
Love the fact that Color Balance is available on the Apple TV HD and does not require buying the latest Apple TV 4K. I am definitely buying the new remote for my Apple TV HD. Apple now supporting 3 generations of Apple TV. Wonder if this will be the case for TV OS 15.
The article is misleading. The TV is NOT be adjusted. The ATV is being adjusted. That's a big difference.
You have to have the phone facing the TV within one inch, so this won’t work.
You don’t need the new Apple TV for this, you just need the latest software, 14.5 on the Apple TV and the iPhone.
Oh, so then it's an article about the future? 🤣
Do you always take yourself so seriously?
I have the SpyderX Pro and can attest that its calibration ability is more accurate.
One would want to be paying a proper calibration expert to calibrate a projector. I just did this a few days ago and the results are impressive on a JVC NX7.
It should be warmer but your whites shouldn't look yellow-ish either. We are accustomed to very cool (blue-ish) colors. Give it a couple of days for you to adapt to it. Recalibrate if you still find it too warm.
I have not. But if you are willing to send a professional to calibrate my system, I'm willing to allow them for the sake of scientific comparison
Most (all) TV’s have out of the box settings with a higher colour temperature than 6500K. Higher colour temperature makes the image cooler
Therefore, changing to 6500K will make the image warmer, because the colour temperature is now lower.A bigger issue is that if you are not using a relatively accurate setting, most modern TV’s use all sorts of “dynamic” processing to counter all the problems that a higher colour temperature and blooming whites results in. This is often true even for “standard” setting, not just the one labelled “dynamic”. For instance, even though it seems counter intuitive, adding blue to the colour temperature makes most faces more “red” (actually purple). But adding blue makes white “pop”, which sells TV’s, so the manufacturers want the high colour temp. So they will skew the colours to “fix” skin tones, while leaving the skies blue (note the difference between “blue sky” and “blue skies”...)
Contrary to what many think, most stores do NOT touch the settings at all, so the manufacturer will try to make the default “sell”. Many TV’s today makes you choose on first startup if the setting is in-store or at home... Proving that what you see in store is not what you get at home.
Anyway:
All the dynamic proccessing works on the assumption that the colour temperature is wrong. If you correct the colour but keep all the extra processing, the result will look horribly wrong, even though you may now have correct colour temperature. So, to use this feature, it is imperative that you start with setting the TV in the most netral standard setting, which will typically be called “movie”, “studio” or the like. In my experience this setting is sometimes overly warm, so calibrating from there sometimes makes it a bit cooler. Without having tested in person, just based on theory, I would expect “movie setting” + Apple TV calibration to work quite well, as a “layman’s calibration”.
This is the simplified version. Correct colours is much more than colour temperature, and I expect this feature to correct saturation and colour lightness as well (to the extent possible).
And yes, I am an ex calibration professional. If you want to have a free feature that maybe works, maybe doesn’t, and if you don’t like it you can turn it off, this is great. If you want to KNOW if you get the best your setup can do, hire a pro. More than anything, what the pro delivers is certainty.
Just a friendly note: When I did calibrations, I often saw TV’s where you could argue that the improvement was neglible (although I very rarely had people take me up on my full satisfaction warranty). I never once calibrated a projector where there was not significant improvements to be made, regardless of the enthusiasm of the customer, even some that had purchased prosumer-level calibration gear themselves. Sometimes the improvement had nothing at all to do with colours. There are just so many more variables in projector setups. If you care enough to use a projector in the first place, you should care enough to get a pro.I have not. But if you are willing to send a professional to calibrate my system, I'm willing to allow them for the sake of scientific comparison