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tvOS 11.2 beta

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Apple just released tvOS 11.2 beta to developers. Among the fixes listed in the release notes (should make some people happy):

- automatic mode switching to native frame rate and dynamic range of video content with Apple TV 4K

- support for switching Apple TV 4K display output to SDR for apps that are GPU-bound when running in HDR

Remember people, this is beta!
 
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Sounds good!

Am I understanding this right-- will this be true 24 hz for movies then?

Will this effect Apple TV 4 as well?
 
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oneMadRssn said:
I'd say we need proper audio passthrough, rather than decoding and re-encoding the audio every time. Proper audio passthrough would also pass through atmos, if your source has it, so that would work for you.
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Of course. Atmos being metadata can't be sent as PCM. It has to have passthrough.
 
oneMadRssn said:
I'd say we need proper audio passthrough, rather than decoding and re-encoding the audio every time. Proper audio passthrough would also pass through atmos, if your source has it, so that would work for you.
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100 times this. I'm happy the auto switching is available, but adding this for audio pass through would make this box pretty much perfect for me.
 
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archer75 said:
Of course. Atmos being metadata can't be sent as PCM. It has to have passthrough.
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Right. :)

I don't Atmos speakers, and don't really have plans to get any anytime soon. But I would still like proper passthrough.
 
mlabonte21 said:
Sounds good!

Am I understanding this right-- will this be true 24 hz for movies then?

Will this effect Apple TV 4 as well?
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Even works for Netflix, started a film up and it switched to 1080P 24.

You have to set it to match HDR and Frame rate and verify the resolutions supported first in the video settings.
 
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Broken Hope said:
Even works for Netflix, started a film up and it switched to 1080P 24.

You have to set it to match HDR and Frame rate and verify the resolutions supported first in the video settings.
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How fast is the switching? Can you do a video please?
Does it also switch the resolution? From 4k down to 1080 if the movie is only in HD?
 
Hanterdro said:
How fast is the switching? Can you do a video please?
Does it also switch the resolution? From 4k down to 1080 if the movie is only in HD?
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It will switch as fast as your TV does, it just sends the signal to your TV at the resolution/colour depth it's programmed in rather than internally scaling everything to max resolution/HDR.
 
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Does it offer different settings for frame rate and HDR? My projector supports HDR but the picture is generally too dim so I end up turning it off, however I'd still like to have it automatically adjust frame rate.
 
WordMasterRice said:
Does it offer different settings for frame rate and HDR? My projector supports HDR but the picture is generally too dim so I end up turning it off, however I'd still like to have it automatically adjust frame rate.
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Yes you can choose to match HDR/SDR or Framerate as 2 separate controls.
 
WordMasterRice said:
Does it offer different settings for frame rate and HDR? My projector supports HDR but the picture is generally too dim so I end up turning it off, however I'd still like to have it automatically adjust frame rate.
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From what I have seen, yes it does. It looks like the Auto-Dynamic Range, and Auto-Frame Rate are separate settings.
 
Broken Hope said:
With them supporting Atmos in the future they will have to support proper bitstreaming, then all my complaints with the Apple TV will be gone.
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What makes you say that? I’d have thought we’d just get the streaming friendly non-hd version of Dolby Atmos
 
Wow. Totally buying one now. My tv has judder free 24p via 60p support. But some apps get bad framerate drops for some reason when I have auto motion on but all sliders to 0. With this I can just let the Apple TV handle it. My biggest issue was the forced HDR on SDR content. It's funny, I was talking about this yesterday on how it was an issue. Great job apple
 
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