Apple TV I feel like I have to choose between best quality and best usability. |
| I feel like I have to choose between best quality and best usability. Posted: 13 Feb 2022 02:50 AM PST I have an AppleTV 4K since yesterday. I use it with an LG CX and and a Denon x1700h. I bought it because the apps on my LG struggle with instability, especially AppleTV and Netflix which regularly crashed what was annoying. And because I'm pretty heavy in the Apple Ecosystem with many iDevices and an Apple One subscription plus plenty movies bought through iTunes. So for a streaming box the AppleTV was a no brainer. But after setting it up and reading through this sub I feel like I have to choose between optimal (picture) settings and best usability/user experience. If I set Video Output to 4K SDR and turn on matching dynamic range and frame rate the Apple TV seems to permanently change video output what is a little bit annoying for streaming services, but the photo app is basically unusable. Going through some memories and watching short clips and pictures it changes output very often, not only annoying because of the black screen but you miss the first one or two seconds from videos. Sometimes I have very short clips from my daughter doing something funny which only are 5 seconds or so and it's basically not usable at all. Also the main menu and the screensavers look worse in SDR. I Feel like Apple optimized the menus and screensavers very well for Dolby Vision output. So I set my Apple TV to 4K Dolby Vision and disabled matching content completely and I feel like this is the overall better experience. But I am aware that in theory SDR (and HDR10) content can look not like it's intended. Also because of no frame rate matching 24p movies should have 3:2 pull down issues. But honestly I don't see much of an difference in SDR or 24p content. Watched some YouTube (SDR) and movies (Jurassic World - 24p HDR10 in it's original state) and I don't see too much of an downgrade. The only thing I noticed that was washed out like many people say SDR content would look was this DVD like menu screen when starting Jurassic World through the TV app. YouTube SDR content looks pretty normal and like it should to me and during Jurassic World I didn't noticed any judder or 3:2 issues. TruMotion is disabled and only Real Cinema is activated in the LG picture settings, which is in Dolby Vision Cinema mode. (On SDR I'm using ISF expert, because I generally like an authentic picture) Also I really hope Apple improves many of this things in future software updates. They could utilize the HDMI 2.1 port more and of course offer audio passthrough. I know that in theory the LPCM output Apple does doesn't sound worse, but I am a little bit weird and would prefer if the Apple TV wouldn't touch the audio at all and let my AVR do the work. And even if it's just to see the Audio Format on the display of my AVR. At least Dolby Atmos shows like it should an my AVR. So I made this post basically to share my experience but also to ask what you think of all of this? [link] [comments] |
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