Does Apple TV 4K convert programs to HDR and or DolbyVision?

if you have a 4k tv and you watch a video click which is 640_480 and it take up the whole screen it will have been upscaled in one form or another, if devices don't upscale then the tv does unless it play it pixel to pixel which mean tiny

However sending a 1080p stream from my ATV 4K set to HDR is over sharpened, over saturated, and the black levels appear different in very dark or light areas. It is simply not as good a picture as having my ATV 4K in 4K SDR mode.

So you are sending a video stream to the TV and telling the TV it's HDR when it's not, but expecting to get better results than when telling the TV it's SDR which it is.

Personally, I'd be confused if you got what you'd expected, I fail to understand your expectations.

However, I still think this conversation would be better in an appropriate thread.

Im not telling it anything. An app on ATV 4K is sending the 1080p SDR stream. Apple setup defaulted me to 4K HDR. It looks bad.

I expect ATV4K to select the proper setting for the content an app is trying to play. I do not expect it to require me to intuit what type of content I’m about to play and then go select the proper setting and then go back and play it and then do it all over for the next thing.

I don't think Apple is going to change this.

I'm not sure I agree with you, but let's not get into speculation.

However, let's remember 4k content is still not widely available and users are going through a period of experimentation (as you do with a new device), I don't think it will be as inconvenient as many are making it out to be.

With all due respect, anybody who cares about the picture on their 4K TV, and bought a 4K TV specifically for the content that's available is going to find this extremely inconvenient.

For starters, there's gaming in 4K HDR, streaming sports networks broadcast in 4K, major original programming in 4K HDR on all three major streaming platforms, not including the 4K HDR movies available on iTunes (over 100, with more coming every week). However, most of the rest of the programming available, YouTube, major network streaming channels, as well as large portions of all three major streaming platforms is still in 1080p, if not 720p. Then there's content type -- sports and games are going to look best at 60Hz, whereas movies are going to look best at 25Hz, and so on.

So not only will the user have to understand and know to switch between all of these settings based on what they watch for the best picture, they will then likely have to make further adjustments to the picture mode on their TV (something they were already going to have to do anyway). So now there's another complicated step added to the process. And even using Siri, it's an 8 step process to switch from one format source to another.

It seems clear to me that Apple intends this for the 4K TV holiday crowd that's going to buy a new TV this Christmas, and will want a way to access their Apple content, and they won't be particular about how it looks. All they know is they have 4K HDR turned on for everything and the picture looks bright and colorful, and the ATV is so responsive no matter what they watch. Meanwhile the TV is turned up to maximum brightness to compensate for the HDR content and processor in overdrive to display it, whether it needs it or not, and likely shortening the life of the TV. I suspect the complaints might start rolling in when these customers find out they can't stretch the picture to get rid of letterbox and pillbox bars while feeding a 4K HDR signal into it.

Do you think Apple is paying attention to the competition?

https://support.roku.com/article/115012823268-how-to-change-the-display-refresh- rate-of-your-roku-streaming-player-to-ma…

Roku is going to offer the feature in the next release of their OS. I'd hate to see the power users migrate to a competing platform and spread their recommendations around.

Wow, I can't believe this - Apple TV 4K HDMI signal will not pass through a 4K rated Onkyo receiver with 4K cables to an LG 4K OLED TV - I just get nothing and the receiver switches back to the prior source that works, in this case the DishNet receiver. Switching back to 2nd gen or so Apple TV and it works fine.

Wow, did Apple's engineers or their QC dept really screw the pooch on this one or what? It's a basic DOA - don't even want to try connecting it to the TV directly, since the WHOLE purpose of REAL home theater is to process the sound at the surround sound receiver level. Seems basically impossible to do that with the ARC (audio return channel) from the TV, to say nothing of the switching dynamics needed to accomplish such bizarreness. WHAT the FREAK is going in with Apple??? Looks like TC is cooking his you know what..

APPLE TV 4K needs to emulate a good SONY 4K blu-ray player with its signal output - works beautifully and every time with my Home Theater - including 3D Blu-ray, 4K HDR and everything else I've tried. Geez, Apple can NOT even get the output correct? *** is going on there?

On both of my Sony's everything( and I mean everything) trips the HDR flag. So a 1080p movie on iTunes says HDR, an old TV show on Netflix. Any idea what it's doing?

Agree with what CNET said, ” It’s confusing and should be fixed”. How could they do this? I really don’t want to be forced into using a 179 box to do the upscaling in my home theater.

What you are describing about the colours seems similar to what the Verge review I linked to said: the implication is that there isn't anything you can do about it.

Unfortunately, you haven't got what you had expected then, personally, I suspect it will turn out much better if you use the Apple TV on the basis of what it is rather than what you had expected.

I'm having this issue too. My Sony 4K HDR TV is reading ALL Apple TV content (including menus) as HDR. I have no way of changing the picture settings. HELP!

Correction: It appears that the firmware update to enable Dolby Vision on the XBR-65A1E has not been released yet.