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J F Author

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New ATV2 selectable resolutions - 720p/60Hz fail!

Hello All,

I'm in the UK and I've been waiting (with bated breath) for Apple to include selectable resolutions for output to my A/V amp and through to my Panasonic TV.

The TV is capable of 50Hz or 60Hz at 720p/1080i/1080p, and the ATV2 has been defaulting to 50Hz.

Not a problem for UK 25fps content, but when I play anything else, e.g. HD stuff from the Apple TV store the picture jumps every couple of seconds. Similar (in fact identical) content plays back smoothly on my PS3, which defaults to 1080p/60Hz or 720p/60Hz. All content plays back fine, regardless of its source.

I was pleased (thrilled in fact) to see that I could now select 720p/60Hz for the ATV2 output - imagine then my dismay when I received the dreaded "plonk" of "you can't do that" and the ATV2 reverted to 720p/50Hz reporting that my TV is "probably" not capable of 720p/60Hz.

Sorry ATV2 - I know that it IS! 😠

Any idea how I can overcome this? All I want to do is output 720p/60Hz from the ATV2 and I can start properly enjoying content from the store and my iTunes libraries etc. etc.

Thanks in advance,

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 7:24 AM

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Buckethead82

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15 points

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 9:49 AM

Same problem here. It's an issue Apple are aware of, as it was present in the last beta firmware which was released about 6 weeks ago! Despite them knowing about the issue, they've gone ahead and released the latest official firmware without fixing it.

They're absolutely useless. I've been waiting months upon months to get 60Hz output back on my AppleTV. How bloody difficult can it be to implement? Not very is the answer.

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Mar 12, 2012 10:00 AM in response to J F

Update fixed the problem on my Sharp! Happy again!

Mar 13, 2012 12:07 PM in response to J F

The 5.0 Update actually broke my Philips TV (47PFL7606K). It was perfectly fine (720p 50Hz AND 60Hz) before, now 720p 60Hz won't work any more!

Mar 15, 2012 2:56 AM in response to J F

Ok, now it works.

I took this one:

Ligawo HDMI zu VGA YPbPr Konverter Converter

I've to buy a konvertor to use Apple TV on a Phillips LCD.

And this LCD (37 PFL 9603) is not a cheap one. The price was in August 2008 around 2400 Euro.

Thank you APPLE !!! 😠

I can't understand. It works well on FW 4.3.

But I want use Airplay on my TV so I have to invest the 50 Euros for this converter. ➖

Mick

Mar 15, 2012 10:48 AM in response to J F

I wonder if the problem also exists with the Apple TV 3, which I assume will use 1080p/60Hz instead of 720p/60Hz. Has any tried this yet?

Mar 15, 2012 1:11 PM in response to Andreas Dobbertin

I posted the following question in its own thread earlier. I don't understand the ATV's options that it is giving me.

So I just received my ATV 3. I have it running to my Denon AVP Processor and then to my TV. I have an older TV in my theater that is only capable of producing 1080i, not 1080p. What I usually do is run everything to my Denon, have it do the Video scaling and processing and then send a 1080i signal to the TV. My problem is that the ATV 3 will not give me any options above 720p HD. It does give me the option of 1920 x 480, but no 1080i or 1080p. I tried hooking it up to anther TV that is capable of 1080p and the ATV3 did register that and gave me the 1080p option. I tried to manually select the 1080p HD option on that TV, then plug it into the Denon, but it reverted back to the 720p HD settings. I understand that the ATV3 is probably receiving a signal from the TV that it is not capable of accepting 1080p, but the Denon is, so why can't I have the ATV3 send the 1080p or at least 1080i to the Denon and then have the Denon convert it, if necessary? Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

Beldalin

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Jun 12, 2012 3:27 PM in response to J F

Hi,

just installed the latest update for my ATV2 (I think it's 5.0.2, date 13-Jun-2012), but I still have the problem, that my screen keeps flickering shortly but constantly about every minute

The problem occurred the first time 2 or 3 updates ago, but it still exists.

So the actual update didn't help, but one update has caused my problems definitely!

I'm using a Full-HD LCD Sony Bravia KDL 40W4000E.

I tried to set the video resolution to Auto, 720p60Hz and even 720p50Hz, but the screen is still flickering anyway.

Tom

Oct 16, 2012 2:28 PM in response to Beldalin

Had the same problem with screen flickering and finally solved it, my Sony TV was part of the problem, but i changed a setting in the TV - under settings/settings/screen control/display area I changed from "all pixels" to "normal" and all flickering issues disappeared at once

Beldalin

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Oct 27, 2012 2:34 AM in response to TheTruthIsOutThere

Wow, seems to help. I went to my HOME menu (german menu)

- Grundeinstellungen

- Bildschirm-Einstellungen

- Anzeigebereich: Normal instead of Vollpixel

and up to now I can't remember a single flicker!!

Thank you very much :))

New ATV2 selectable resolutions - 720p/60Hz fail!