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tvOS 18 Adds 'InSight' to Identify Actors and Songs in Apple TV+ Shows, Plus 'Enhanced Dialogue' Feature and More
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sounds like further testing or a Setting is needed?
maybe still "coming soon"?
Dialog enhancement is going to be such an amazing change. So many movies nowadays have the dialog mastered at such a low level compared to all the sound effects and music. We often watch movies with the captions on!
I know, right? It doesn’t seem like it should be as big of a deal as it is, but often our TV is the centerpiece of the living room, and especially if you have a nice OLED like we do, the screensavers are amazing art on the display. I’m excited to check these new ones out!
I know, right? It doesn’t seem like it should be as big of a deal as it is, but often our TV is the centerpiece of the living room, and especially if you have a nice OLED like we do, the screensavers are amazing art on the display. I’m excited to check these new ones out!
I hate Prime (And most other's) video player controls. when I tap the bar I just want to see how much time is left. I don't want to cover up the whole screen with useless (it's useless if I don't want it). and being able to tap again to see the time when it's going to end is amazing. I wish Apple could force other video providers to use their player. Also I hope the iPhone inSight will link directly to IMDB of the Actor/Actress, that would be sweet.
Thanks. Now if I could only get my family to do that and stop using my account…
Me and my wife switched years ago and it’s genuinely better, not having a remote to lose is great
Is it outputting that stretched way at the correct wider resolution? Or is the monitor just stretching a 16:9 output?
The Apple TV shows the correct Monitor resolution of 1440p but it’s stretching a regular 16:9 for everything.
What's it supposed to do if the monitor reports such bizarre dimensions?
How does this monitor function in use cases that are not Apple TV based? Does it send some side information that the pixels are severely non-square?
If you go to Settings/Video and Audio/Format does it provide something correct in the options? Auto-detection of widescreens still seems problematic (I'm not sure if this is on AppleTV's side, or if the spec is just vague and doesn't cover these cases well.)
Tested it a little bit with the beta 1 at a friend house today.
The good:
A)It is indeed implemented system wide (Settings/Video and Audio/ enable "Enhanced Dialogue"), and works with any audio hardware, including Bluetooth paired stuff and even tv´s internal speakers. So is no longer a Homepod exclusive feature.
B). It works much better than before, probably thanks to the AI/machine learning stuff. So much better, in fact, that I would consider it a game changer. There are two modes now within the feature: standard and boost, which make voices even louder.
The Bad:
Unfortunately, this improved version of the "Enhanced Dialogue" feature does not work on the Apple TV 4K first gen (2017), I guess because the A10X chip is not good enough to perform machine learning related routines.
The Surprise (Bonus):
tvOS and IOS 18 added spatial audio support over Airplay 2. This means, for example, than you can pair a stereo pair of Sonos Era 300 or a stereo pair or Amazon Echo Studio´s with an Apple TV 4K and enjoy Dolby 5.1/7.1 and Atmos content from tvOS apps.
Right now, with tvOS 17, regular Airplay is limited to stereo and the only way to get surround sound wirelessly with the Apple TV 4K is by using big Homepods in Home Theater Mode (which is not Airplay) or using Bluetooth implementation of spatial audio over headphones, which require Airpods that support the feature.