Apple TV 4K Now TV App performance

[Wentey]

Hi All,

Im just waiting for delivery on my new apple tv 4K box ive read that is set as always on 4K/HDR (not sure if the Hz is configerable from 60/50 HZ yet.

Has anyone already recived there 4K Apple TV and if they have can they post the NOWTV App performance (and any other UK apps-BBC Iplayer/TV Iplayer etc)

Im hopeing that with the box natively upscalling so the TV will always think its a 4K source we will see a bump in picture stability and performance.

Im worried about possible refresh rate restrictions...?

Thanks

Paul

[tallguy908]

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@Wentey wrote:

Hi All,

Im just waiting for delivery on my new apple tv 4K box ive read that is set as always on 4K/HDR (not sure if the Hz is configerable from 60/50 HZ yet.

Has anyone already recived there 4K Apple TV and if they have can they post the NOWTV App performance (and any other UK apps-BBC Iplayer/TV Iplayer etc)

Im hopeing that with the box natively upscalling so the TV will always think its a 4K source we will see a bump in picture stability and performance.

Im worried about possible refresh rate restrictions...?

Thanks

Paul

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Picked mine up from the Apple Store yesterday and so far I'm really pleased with it.

What you've read about the video output setting is totally incorrect. Just go to video settings click on the chosen default (4K HDR / 60Hz}) and it will bring up a short list of other options, select the bottom option (Other Formats) and it will bring up further output settings

Performance and picture on the apps you mentioned is really good.

Did find the picture a bit bright for my liking but a little bit of tweaking of my picture settings for the Apple Tv HDMI input on my tv was easy enough to do.

[moroboshi]

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@tallguy908 wrote:

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@Wentey wrote:

Hi All,

Im just waiting for delivery on my new apple tv 4K box ive read that is set as always on 4K/HDR (not sure if the Hz is configerable from 60/50 HZ yet.

Has anyone already recived there 4K Apple TV and if they have can they post the NOWTV App performance (and any other UK apps-BBC Iplayer/TV Iplayer etc)

Im hopeing that with the box natively upscalling so the TV will always think its a 4K source we will see a bump in picture stability and performance.

Im worried about possible refresh rate restrictions...?

Thanks

Paul

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Picked mine up from the Apple Store yesterday and so far I'm really pleased with it.

What you've read about the video output setting is totally incorrect. Just go to video settings click on the chosen default (4K HDR / 60Hz}) and it will bring up a short list of other options, select the bottom option (Other Formats) and it will bring up further output settings

Performance and picture on the apps you mentioned is really good.

Did find the picture a bit bright for my liking but a little bit of tweaking of my picture settings for the Apple Tv HDMI input on my tv was easy enough to do.

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You're missing the point. The new ATV is incapable of switching formats on the fly, so if you select HDR, you're in HDR for everything. This seriously damages non HDR content.

[Wentey]

That’s sounds like good news thanks for your post 🙂

[Wentey]

What setting did you go for by the way.

[tallguy908]

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@Wentey wrote:
What setting did you go for by the way.

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I'm using 4K HDR / 50Hz

Tried Chroma at 4:2:2 but I did get a odd bit of picture judder so I've reset that to 4:2:0 and its working flawlessly

[Wentey]

Thanks I got mine last night set for the same settings and agree looks good

It handles video much better than the older Apple TV non 4K I think this could be that my TV thinks it’s a 4K native source so isn’t trying to do any upscalibg leaving it all to the Apple TV

No worries if they could just update the app/improve the bitrate and introduce HD streams (I’m willing To pay more for that) I’m a happy chap

🙂