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How to Use Apple TV's iPhone-Based Color Balance Feature
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I wonder if Samsung will be implementing a way to use Samsung phones to calibrate Samsung TVs.
That way... it could calibrate the actual TV... not just manipulating one device for one input.
That way... it could calibrate the actual TV... not just manipulating one device for one input.
We have a Sony Bravia, about 3 years old. Calibration wouldn’t work with the TV in Home Cinema mode but did in Standard Mode. I assume it only calibrated that mode. Didn’t make a huge difference.
I'm sure the photocopiers in Seoul are already running.
I’m not getting this to work. It starts on the TV and the phone but the shape on the TV is a lot larger than the phone. The sparkles start but nothing happens when I turn the phone to the TV
Just be sure you are within an inch of the TV. You can actually place the face of the phone right on the TV.
In the end I got it to work by placing the phone dead centre of the top of the template. i.e. top of the phone on the top line of the rectangle.
Well, your idea isn't morally correct. I don't think it's right to purchase, use, and return a perfectly good product at a company's expense. You're essentially stealing from Apple by lowering the value of a brand new product that they'll have to turn around and sell for less.
I wouldn‘t, but seen as it seems you like a laugh give it a try. I‘m finding it pretty funny too!
6500K should be a neutral white (the same as the sun seen in space, which is where). If we see a display shifting towards yellow or blue that’s the display and/or color profile fault, sometimes not completely fixable even with calibration because of the display’s quality/specs.
Not everyone works in 6500K though. Those working for print go down to around 5500K to simulate some warmer paper tones.
no questions asked returns is just that.
its because Apple has learned as have many successful mega corps the easy returns translates to more sales overall.
if they didn't they would make their policy stricter or charge a restocking fee etc.
Apple's Actuaries/Accounting department think that what they currently allow is a net benefit, who are you to say whether me adhering to their policy is moral or immoral?
if something is legal and sanctioned/tacitly encouraged by them because they believe it overall increases customer sales/spending and confidence how can it be immoral?
even if I Agree'd to your premise its immoral
theres plenty Apple does thats immoral in my opinion (there shady practices when it comes to being green eg. anti-right to repair and/or customer rights, preventing the allowing of firmware downgrades etc. pressuring CBP to seize parts based on lies etc.)
you might ask what does that have to do with very little but it is a similar argument.
if what they do is "Legal", its allowed by many users through apathy but if asked many would say its not sanctioned by them (most people dont want to not have the option of cheaper repairs or the right to to what they want with their property if asked correctly but apple doesn't give that option they just make baseless claims that benefit themselves at our expense)
so really either we are both immoral (them more so than me and others like me) or neither is immoral.
either way we are both playing by the current established rules so why would immorality factor in to a business transaction where both are playing by the others terms?
I've never had a better case use of "two wrongs don't make a right".
We should clarify that it uses the FaceID cameras. It's obviously not reading a face on your TV.
Maybe it also uses the other sensors that are included in the FaceID array. Older iPhone have just a single camera sensor.
I covered that, but just out of curiosity how is it a wrong in your opinion?
what is the criteria that you use to determine what parts of a mutual business transaction is right or wrong?
Considering terms of sale, policy and laws are being followed?
I barely saw any difference with my Sony TV. I had to switch between balanced and original several times. There was absolutely no change in the colour. The only discernible difference I saw was that original was slightly lighter. Very slightly. So slight that I didn’t notice at first. Only noticed after three or four switches back and forth.
This is morally wrong, not illegal. You’re charging Apple to calibrate your TV.
mor·al
concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.
You seem to think that I don’t understand what moral means, I’m pointing out that not only has no one proven a breach of morality they’ve not even shown that it’s against the law or policy.
that is not to say that every law is moral or every policy is moral, but it is pointing out that none of the three have been met. (the other 2 being easier to prove as some people view morality as subjective while others view it as objective but even if you believe in objective morality you should still be able to prove/explain the perceived moral violation.)
You failed to demonstrate why it’s morally wrong you just state it is without substantiation, but we are slowly getting closer to the root of yours (and some others) opinion.
just curious If that is your stance would you say that it’s also morally wrong for Apple to force you to buy a new device to calibrate the new Apple TV you just bought?
Morally should apple have provided a way to calibrate it that was self-contained for example a sensor in the new remote?
if you buy an item and only try it temporarily within their pre-existing policy you’re not stealing they get it right back after the return window closes lest you chose to keep the item after all.
in fact you’re giving them the opportunity to try to sell/convince you into not returning that item and as I previously pointed out all evidence points to them liking that policy or else they would change it.
Also another falsehood Remember this doesn’t calibrate your TV and only calibrates your new Apple TV, no other devices connected to the TV nor the TV itself get calibrated.
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Just had a chance to try this out. I was allowed to run the adjustment, but was told my TV wasn’t in need of calibration in HDR10 mode. I was told the same thing in SDR until I turned off my Sony’s XDR mode. After I turned that off it ran and gave me an adjustment. It looked ever so slightly cooler than it was before, but the difference was not significant.
If anyone is having trouble getting this to work, try temporarily disabling the various dynamic video modes that may be active on your TV.
If anyone is having trouble getting this to work, try temporarily disabling the various dynamic video modes that may be active on your TV.
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OK, I’ll spend 5 minutes:
1: noone is pretending the “car stereo” is being modified, or the speakers made better. This is equal to your speakers having too much bass, and the Spotify app having a better bass control than your stereo, so you can OPTIONALLY use that to get better sound in the end.
Actually, look at the music server app called Roon, for Home audio. It includes a room correction feature, where you can use an external microphone to correct the sound in your room, even if your speakers/amp don’t have that feature. This is a great feature, which CAN improve the final result if used properly. So yes, it completely can make sense to adjust the source to compensate for errors later in the chain.
2: The thing you got “spectacularly wrong”, is that you claimed that this feature somehow proves that the Apple TV doesn’t ouput a correct signal. If you leave this feature alone, the output of the Apple TV is accurate. It is of course no longer accurate if you DO use the feature, since it is now countering the TV’s inaccuracies, but that is not what you stated.