Strobe effect with HDR on Apple TV

I've just updated my AppleTV 4K to the public beta of tvOS13 and I can confirm the strove effect is gone!

I am having the exact same problem, it affects HDR10 content mostly, occasionally a Dolby Vision will bug out. The movies specifically played within the AppleTV app, you know movies played from iTunes purchases are affected. This issue began with TvOs12.3. I thought it was the new tv I purchased, but I can play movies from other sources without any issue. It does not affect VUDU, Movies Anywhere, or any other app on the Apple TV 4K for me. I too have fiddled with the settings. If you reset the Apple TV within the settings menu it goes away when you first play the movie, then it comes back is you try to play it a second time, which was Field of Dreams for me, you notice it in the darker scenes and it is super distracting. This needs to be corrected as it’s an obvious bug introduced with the latest update. Please look into this...

I've narrowed down the issue. It has something to do with a new video player overlay system on tvOS 12.3

I believe this to be the case because when I play something with iTunes Movies, the flickering is gone, until I turn on subtitles and whenever a subtitle appears on screen, inside a dark scene, the strobe happens.

With the new AppleTV app, the flickering always happens.

So this leads me to believe it has something to do with (invisible) onscreen overlay functions.

Yes I have, it doesn’t affect Netflix Dolby Vision content, or Movies Anywhere HDR, or Vudu Dolby Vision or HDR, I play Field of Dreams in Movies Anywhere in 4K HDR and the issue doesn’t occur there, only iTunes purchased, I have Field of Dreams for iTunes as well and it happens there, dark shadow area strobe effect. I have the proper HDMI cable also, Belkin and also Monoprice certified cables, tried both and the issue persists. All started with the 12.3 update...

Hi guys,

has any of you tried the iTunes tip and THEN tried playing a movie with Apple TV player? I am asking this because I had the "strobe" problem, tried few things, nothing worked. Then I got here, read tips, tried playing a movie with iTunes player and then switched over to the standard player - the strobing was gone. Now I cannot recreate the problem. It's as if it's gone. I really doubt that this was the "cure" but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone hit the same thing. I hate to know the issue existed, solved itself and I don't have a clue why.

I’m having the same issue after the 12.3 update. The flickering on dark areas happens only when watching HDR content (It does not happen on Dolby Vision). I’ve also tried different chroma and frame rate settings settings on the Apple TV, but the flickering does not go away.

At at first I thought it was my tv, but after using my other streaming devices I realized it was the Apple TV. Hoping Apple becomes aware of this issue.

It happens in very specific cases I think. Because the scene in American sniper is not even that dark. I think it had something to do with met data that contains exactly the same information as the subtitles at the same time or something.

The scene in American sniper has a lot of subtitles coming in rapidly after each other. That’s probably why it is so awful to watch. The rest of the movie I didn’t noticed the problem a lot. Only if I really searched for it.

im quit confident that it’s fixed.

Now that the first public beta of tvOS 13 is out.. anyone willing to try the beta?

"has anyone from Apple commented on this my Apple TV is doing this and my friends also I’ve got another 4K Apple TV on 11.3 and it doesn’t do this on that version of the software it’s something in the new version that must be causing this"

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