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Scathing criticism of the AppleTV 4k (www.theverge.com)
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I’ve got Billy Lynn and a series 6 LG OLED, it plays beautifully on my Oppo 203 at 60Hz on my LG in HDR...It is not a Dolby Vision title though
And it is the only film available at that frame rate, and most people really don’t like the high frame rate look. To me for that movie it worked perfectly. And weirdly with the way the Apple TV is setup, that is the only movie that works perfectly....
I have one ATV wating for me to pick it up..but im still deceding if I should
I would use it just for one thing only, UHD movies. All this mode switching i really putting me off (Have a 2016 OLED).
read about a guy how had to change 4 time last night cos of the different framerate content. Movies, show, sport.
What a turn off for 200EUR
Right. This is the biggest problem with the ATV which could be easily solved which makes me believe the Apple engineers are either lazy/stupid or this was rushed to market.
All that need to happen is to give the user a few options during setup. HDR should not be on all the time when 99% of apps and programs are SDR. Leave the refresh rate as 4K SDR and then switch to HDR when provided an HDR signal.
I do think this was lazily done so menus and screen savers are shown in HDR.
Yeah. With this device I think they’ve just shown that they don’t really understand the market. Just as well they didn’t produce an actual tv. Or a car. Lol. They’d probably get rid of the steering wheel because it interrupted the smooth flowing lines of the dashboard..
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Seeing no panel bar a $20,000 commercial Panel can do rec 2020 let alone Dolby Vision, your ISF calibrator did a “best guess”. It’s better than nothing but it’s not to a standard, like rec 709 or HDR 10. My Dolby Vision looks great though- but if you can see the difference between HDR 10 & Dolby Vision on a 65” set, you’re obviously in possession of far better eyes than mine.
I think that’s a fair point. The LG OLEDs use the service menu 20point values as a base for all of the picture modes. By calibrating these points he removed the tint which was visible in my pre-calibrated Dolby Vision settings. I accept that’s some way short of a full calibration though.
I don’t think I did claim to see a difference between the two and for convenience sake I’d probably just use HDR modes on the Apple TV anyway as my amp doesn’t support Dolby Vision. I haven’t been able to compare Dolby Vision and HDR from the same source but I would expect that Dolby Vision fixes some of the issues with HDR. That is, id expect Dolby Vision to show more shadow detail in dark scenes and clip less in brighter scenes due to its ability to effectively tone map on a scene by scene basis
It does exeactly that. It is stunning on an OLED, it truly is.