apple tv 4k hdr washed out colours

I don’t think this is the place for that. But if I google you I see you made comments on reddit so you should be able to find what you are looking for there ;)

Me too, bump.

So glad to know I’m not the only one or I’m going crazy!

Gonna agree with G J here, the color is awful On 4K HDR. Not just awful, but unwatchable.

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.

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

It’s sort of fixed

Set output to 4K SDR to get normal

Colors in home screen navigation and games.

Turn match content on for both options.

When the source is HDR or DV the Apple TV will switch output and your menu still looks good...

I googled this solution. And tested it.

I have the exact same issue - now. When I initially hooked up the ATV 4k everything was working great (right after Christmas). Now everything in HDR looks washed out and it won't even switch to the HDR mode. This all happened with the newest update being able to match dynamic range and frame rate. SDR looks great. I have a Sony XBR 930D. Picture was beautiful when I first got it and was really excited. Any fix to this??? It's disappointing to watch content in SDR when it should be in HDR.

This is completely untrue. The colors are horrible as well as being "washed out", completely eradicating most of the dark details in all shots as if the contrast were turned up massively in a bad Photoshop JPG. This is not a normal effect.

On my sony tv I had to enable "enhanced format". I thought it was my appletv. Wondering if your Samsung has a similar setting.