New Apple TV model

[kiranmk2]

Dolby Vision 2 announced. Although it's more than likely that any new 2025 Apple TV won't support this and we'll have to wait for the next one

Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing

But is it worth upgrading your TV for?

www.theverge.com

 

[subjonas]

Dolby Vision 2 announced. Although it's more than likely that any new 2025 Apple TV won't support this and we'll have to wait for the next one

Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing

But is it worth upgrading your TV for?

www.theverge.com

I'm very interested in the "solution to HDR content that's too dark". I love how black my OLED TV screen can get, but I hate how I can't tell what's going on in some scenes because some detail is dark that shouldn't be. Not sure if that's an HDR problem or if my TV just needs calibration, but I hope it's the former because I'll never get around to getting my TV calibrated.

 

[Audit13]

I'm very interested in the "solution to HDR content that's too dark". I love how black my OLED TV screen can get, but I hate how I can't tell what's going on in some scenes because some detail is dark that shouldn't be. Not sure if that's an HDR problem or if my TV just needs calibration, but I hope it's the former because I'll never get around to getting my TV calibrated.

If the video is from a streaming service, it could be due to the video's low bitrate, black crush due to the TV's color settings, black crush due to mastering process, or a combination of the three.

 

[kiranmk2]

I'm very interested in the "solution to HDR content that's too dark". I love how black my OLED TV screen can get, but I hate how I can't tell what's going on in some scenes because some detail is dark that shouldn't be. Not sure if that's an HDR problem or if my TV just needs calibration, but I hope it's the former because I'll never get around to getting my TV calibrated.

Some content has been designed to very dark. I believe Vincent from HDTV Test found that the infamous House of the Dragon scene was actually mastered to be 1 nit on average (link). It sounds like this is a fad in Hollywood (similar to Christopher Nolan's unintelligable dialogue that spread to many other films/shows), that CE manufacturers jump on to sell you new kit to "solve" the issue (soundbars with vocal "optimisers", Dolby Vision 2)

It's hard to know what to make of DV2 until we see demos from CES in January. There was already an update 4-5 years ago (Dolby Vision IQ) that was suppose to take ambient light into account, so who knows how this feature will work in DV2 (it sounds like they've just shoved "AI" in there to do basically the same job). The motion smoothing thing is interesting as the content could contain flags/metadata to tell the display to engage mootion smoothing for certain shots that introduce 24p judder (typically slow panning shots) and then disengage it for the next scene to avoid the soap opera effect. If this is the case, then DV2 should be able to be supported on existing Apple TV 4k units via a TvOS update (as it is the display that will likely need the hardware update), but I'm sure apple won't miss the chance to limit DV2 to the latest Apple TV model...

 

[oneMadRssn]

Dolby Vision 2 announced. Although it's more than likely that any new 2025 Apple TV won't support this and we'll have to wait for the next one

Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing

But is it worth upgrading your TV for?

www.theverge.com

When it comes to TV standards, I think Apple is usually pretty late to the game. They won't introduce support for a new feature until it's fairly widespread in TVs sold. For example, it took Apple forever to enable HDMI 2.1, or QMS.

 

[whitby]

More than happy with the current model. I use the Apple TV because it is the one streaming device that does not support ACR (automatic content recognition) that all other streaming units and TVs support in order to allow them to track what you watch and blast you with advertising. This is on top of the very high quality streaming output it provides (often much better than built in Apps in the TVs and other advertising laden streaming devices).

 

[DaniTheFox]

I am also waiting for the function that the iPhone 17 got with the N1 chip. I'm looking forward to using the new SPR AVS with the AirPods Pro 3.