apple tv 4k hdr washed out colours

Same issue here using a 2015 LG OLED (EF9500). It supports HDR10 but not Dolby Vision. Just as the OP mentioned, everything SDR looks dark if HDR is enabled. However, the screen savers and iTunes movies with HDR look amazing. Hopefully they can figure this out soon. I too would like to see the ATV only enable HDR when the content support it, just like my Xbox One and the apps on my TV do.

I have a Samsung 65 from 2014 with a SEK unit and the Apple TV worked right out the box in HDR 10@60Hz.

My tv setting: HDMI color on all 4 ports and all HDMI ports are 2.0 and it's on movie mode, warm 1

I also got the Belkin cable that Apple recommends just because...

Hi,

I have the same issue which has been driving me crazy. It is a problem with the apple tv software. The Apple TV menus were not adapted to HDR. It is unbelievable that Apple could let this happen... Let's hope they issue a fix soon!

I should add that the Samsung in this case is the 8500 series supporting

what may be another level of HDR, the content is Amazon Video 4K - but

actually there's hardly any viewable difference between HDR and SDR.

MortenTG wrote:

I've tried several movies from itunes, both those marked with DV and HDR and none of them look good. I have the same problem with Netflix content, both from ATV and from the native Netflix TV-app. I see that you refer to manually changing the HDR output type on the ATV from DV to HDR10. I can't find seem to find this setting?

MortenTG, I think you only get the ability to change from HDR to DV if you have a TV that supports DV. If your TV doesn't support it you don't get the DV option at all. I know I don't see it on mine.

Netflix released an update to the ATV app last night, but it didn't change anything. It's really odd that all the HDR content in Netflix appears as DV on the ATV. On the WebOS app on my TV it shows as HDR since it knows my TV doesn't support DV. Things still look flat with the ATV app. They don't look amazing on my WebOS app, but they do look better.

I don't have the same issue with HDR content on iTunes. If it says HDR, it looks amazing. I watched War of the Planet of the Apes and it was really impressive looking. However, Goodfellas, which is shown as DV, doesn't look good at all. Looks better if I switch the ATV back to SDR.

In my case at least, it seems like a bug that makes anything listed as DV to not look good on my non-DV TV. Hopefully Apple will fix this in a future release. We are only on 11.0 of TVOS.

BTW, I recommend filling out this form here for feedback to Apple regarding the new ATV. I've put in a request to have the system only switch to HDR/DV mode when the content supports it:

Feedback - Apple TV - Apple

I'm having the same issues, matter of fact when I exit ATV 4K the picture on my Samsung UHD TV is really dark. I've checked the video setting on both the ATV and Samsung but that doesn't appear to be the issue. I shut the TV off and waited about a minute and when I turned it back on the TV wasn't as dark. I agree I believe there is a software issue with the ATV 4K and hopefully a fix is coming, the sooner the better.

This all has to do with the fact that apple tv picks a set output as SDR, HDR or Dolby. As most things are not encoded to work in HDR or Dolby so ATV upmixes it. But apple algorithms suck balls which causes Sh*tty quality. Should of just allowed for auto sensing of the content.

I have the same issue with a Sony 4k beamer.

However the Samsung 4k player works perfectly well in HDR with the Sony beamer.

Apple does seem to have an issue when customers reports malfunctions of their devices!

Phalch

I think you're on to something there. Funny enough I too was watching Mindhunter on Netflix and noticed the same when I had HDR enabled. I ended up switching it off as SDR looked better to me. However, the iTunes movies that appear as Dolby Vision look great to me with HDR on, so maybe there's something weird about the Netflix app? At any rate, Apple should fix this so HDR10 only toggles on when the content supports it. Same with Dolby Vision. All other times it should output SDR. Other 4K devices haved figured this out...

Honestly doubt they will allow Auto Signal sense as apple always says its a feature. They meant to have all content up-converted to provide a perfect experience and that they will work to update their algorithms. So much for that lol.

I have same issue on New Sony KD65A1.

All output from Apple tv 4K is washed, pale, dull.

Using the Belkin HDMI 2.1 câble from Apple Store ...

Same video streamed through vlc on Android tv looks amazing. Apple TV was sepia effect over the entire movie.

Extended range for HDMI 2&3 are enabled.

Oh and is it correct that Apple TV doesn’t support 4K 60hz 4:4:4? It only shows 4:0:0 and 4:2:2

I see the "Sepia" type effect with Netflix. Do you see it when playing movies from iTunes that have HDR? Those look better to me on my LG OLED (non DV model).

And yes, I only see 4:0:0 and 4:2:2 chroma when HDR is enabled. If it's set to SDR then 4:4:4 is available.