Apple TV 4K Chroma - BUG / Bad implementation
I'm having an issue with Apple TV 4K and my AVR where the challenge is that my AVR does not support 4:2:2 10-bit and Apple TV keeps switching to 4:2:2 10-bit even though the content is in 4:2:0. If I select Chroma 4:2:0 it switches to 4:2:2 when I enable match content or uses 4K SDR as default, so the only way is to enable HDR as default and turn off content matching. Which is not ideal.
The scenario is a poorly implementation and speaking to Apple Support does not help at all as they can't understand why I want to have SDR as default and have content matching enabled.
I've been waiting for a solution to this for over a year now and it does not seem to be included in TvOS 16 as I had hoped... I just bought a Google Chromecast 4K which has implemented this properly as one can force Chroma to e.g. YCbCR 4:2:0 10-bit or YCbCR 4:2:2 12-bit. Both working fine for me.
The dilemma is that Google Chromecast can't play Dolby Atmos and Apple TV 4K can't display 4K HDR movies with matching framerate etc. So, I'm thinking about giving Apple the time until the release of the next major version and if this continue to be an issue, I guess I'll give up Dolby Atmos and sell the Apple TV unfortunately as It's a great device, but has some bugs/issues related to content matching, chroma etc.
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