Using Apple TV with an Ultra Wide Screen

Is this still valid with Apple TV 4K? I have LG 34UC97 and wonder, if I could get this working in more native format now?

All Apple TV models can only output 16:9 ratio using the HDMI connection.

If you have a 21:9 ratio monitor, your only option is to use the ratio scaling feature and zoom functions provided by the monitor.

This also means all videos played through the Apple TV will be defaulted to 16:9 ratio only.

Some services such as Vevo, Netflix and YouTube will allow you to display the original ratio of the content other than 16:9.

If the content is uploaded in 21:9 then you will have the ability to display that ratio on the monitor but only using a PC or Mac.

Please be aware some 21:9 content you see are actually uploaded in 16:9 letterbox, so the black bars are permanent and your option is to use the monitors zoom function.

A 21:9 video uploaded or are only available to watch in 16:9 letterbox usually means the video is of a lower quality as the actually video resolution must fit into the 16:9 resolution (usually 1920x1080)

A proper stream or video should from any service should only contain the video in its original ratio and resolution. A typical 21:9 HD video using the 2:39:1 cinematic ratio would have the resolution of 1920x800. The black bars are then added automatically by the video player.

many tvs have remotes which let the user change the display usually zoom, stretch and the like

but there is no technology in the world which would make a movie not made for 21 9 there is no extra visuals outside of the screen waiting for people to get ultra wide screens

Thank you, but my question was oriented to the fact, if Apple TV 4K supports 3400x1440 and other 21:9 resolutions without scaling from monitor

hello,

I have the above combo as well.

I configured the appleTV to always send 1920x1080 over the HDMI port to the LG ultrawide display then I switch the ratio using the ratio buton the remote between 1:1 for normal 16:9 content and select "Cinema1" if the content is ultrawide and then it fills the screen completely and looks great (you get black bars on all four sides as you described if you leave it on 1:1).

The scaling is very good and I hardly notice a drop in quality doing this. I don't think you can do 2560x1080 over HDMI versions before 2.0 or DVI, people have found ways to force it but you don't get the full 50/60Hz by doing this. If you don't trust the monitors scaling you can play the movie from a laptop with DisplayPort at 2560x1080 and use the scaling on the video application you're using - iTunes/VLC etc...

As far as I know neither the AppleTV or the UltraWide Monitor has a HDMI 2.0 port so you can't get that resolution anyway - but it really does not matter because the content is only 1920x800 so HDMI1.4 is perfectly capable of getting this content to the monitor and it's just a choice of whether you prefer the computers scaling or the monitors scaling.

Hope this helps!

Jonny

likely it will work as watching a non wide screen movie on a wide screen monitor

no tv streams just have extra unlimited media hiding on each side then they begin to display when a display happen to have a wide or tall enough resolution

if that was the case then all video streams would be unlimited in size as they should be carrying info for if somebody connected a

100000000000000*1080 display