Change these APPLE TV 4K (2021) Settings IMMEDIATELY For the BEST Experience

hey guys it's development here and apple

has finally released

an updated version of the apple tv 4k

and it doesn't matter if you're watching

it on anything from

a tv or tv with a sound bar or if you

have a dedicated home theater space

with a projector and surround sound

speakers there are a few settings you

should change

immediately after you power it on and in

this video we're going to go over what

those settings are

and why you should change them stick

around

so once the setup is actually complete

now first thing we go

is to the settings because this is where

you make

all the changes that we need to make and

if you go in the general

then there's not much that we need to

change here this is all personal

preferences so

that's not really what we're here for

the settings we want to change are in

the audio and video because after all

it's an audio and video device

so what the apple tv does is it selects

the 60 hertz signal

of your highest quality hdr format so

what i mean by that

is if your tv supports hdr 10

and dolby vision then it will select

dolby vision here

by default but since this tv doesn't

support adobe vision

it supports hdr 10 plus and hdr 10.

the apple tv doesn't support hdr 10 plus

so

it defaults to hdr 10 which is

what we see here 4k hdr so some of you

may see double vision here and that's

completely fine

all right so once we have that selected

then we can go back

and to chroma so the apple tv supports

either

four two two chroma and it has by

default

four two zero now four two two chroma is

a higher quality chroma

and has better color information than

the four two zero

so you should select that and it tells

you that you should have

high quality hdr or high speed hdmi

cables but once you have

a certified hdmi 2.0 cable you should be

completely fine

so wait this remote is really finicky i

did so like try it out but my finger

accidentally slipped a little bit and it

changed

so once that's done we can go to ok

and move on

now this is another important setting

which

i think is very important to have

enabled so

apple tv handles hdr content in a couple

ways so by default

it has much dynamic range off so it

doesn't matter what dynamic range of

content

is being transmitted in it will always

display the content

in the dynamic range that you have

selected in that previous screen so if

you're watching

sdr content you know standard dynamic

range it will still

display that content in hdr so the tv

or the apple tv will tone map the sdr

content

to hdr which is not something you want

done i mean the

apple tv does some a good job of tone

mapping but that's not something you

actually want

if you don't have to you know do it so

what you should do

is enable that so you have the apple tv

transmit the content

in the format it was mastered in so sdr

content

is sent in sdr and hdr content

is set in hdr and also you want it to

also

match the frame rate because it does the

same exact thing with frame rate as it

does

with the hdr so since we had 4k hdr at

60 hertz

selected in the previous screen then it

would transmit

say 24 frames per second film content

in 60 hertz as well and

we don't want that we want it to be as

faithful our reproduction as possible so

we have match dynamic range and match

frame rate enabled

the next thing we don't need to check

hdmi connection because

that's fine if we had a issue with the

hdmi connection

then we wouldn't have been able to

enable four to two chroma most likely

but unless you're having issues with

your uh connection with your tv

and the apple tv you don't really need

to check your hdmi connection

and now audio output now this depends on

where you are how you have your apple tv

connected

if you have it connected to a home

theater system

then you will have it selected here the

audio format should remain on

auto if you have an hdr projector you

want to maintain the same settings

for video but what you do want to change

is in the audio section now

in the audio output once it says tv

speakers that just means that

it's sending the audio signal through

your hdmi cable if you had things

like say a home pod that you wanted to

send the

audio to wirelessly then that's how you

would go and select it right here

but we don't have that right now so all

we have

is the tv speakers which is essentially

the

hdmi output and the setting you actually

do want to change

is the audio format now if you have

adobe atmos capable receiver then you

want to make sure that immersive audio

is enabled the only immersive audio

format that the apple tv supports is

dolby atmos

it does not support dtsx or oro 3d

so you want to make sure that adobe

atmos is on

and the change format is off because

when you enable that then it will reduce

the audio quality and you don't want

that so

you leave that off and the only thing

enabled is dolby atmos

now if you have say if you're in

a noise sensitive environment so say

you're watching tv and people are

sleeping or what have you

then you can enable this to actually

compress the dynamic range

of the content but this is not something

you want to have enabled

throughout your watching unless you have

some specific

scenarios that need the loudness to be

compressed to be reduced

navigation clicks that's essentially all

personal preference but audio mode

should

remain auto because then it switches

when necessary

and you get the best by default uh

and then there is color balance now the

benefits of this

color balance is to be determined but

this is something you essentially use to

calibrate the

output of the signal from your apple tv

now it doesn't change the settings

on your tv what it does is calibrate the

color output

of the apple tv itself so the

information that it's sending your tv

but those are essentially all the audio

and video settings you need to change to

have

the best experience with your apple tv

alright so now that we're done with that

there are some notes on a few things

that i think you should definitely know

so first of all is the apple tv 4k

supports a max

of 60 hertz so if you have a 120 hertz

screen

that's too bad you'll be having a 60

hertz output

from your apple tv 4k and of course

it'll adjust the output frame rate

based on the content you're watching if

you selected the setting

to match the frame rate in the same vein

if you select

match dynamic range and your tv only

supports hdr 10

and say the content you're watching on

the apple tv 4k

is in dolby vision then the apple tv 4k

will send a hdr 10 dynamic range signal

to your tv

in most instances now i've seen on the

voodoo app specifically where it

actually reverts back to

sdr and doesn't send an hdr signal at

all

if the content you're watching on vudu

doesn't match

the high dynamic range format of your tv

so

if you're watching adobe vision movie on

voodoo and your tv

only supports hdr 10 and you have match

dynamic range enabled on the apple tv

you'll receive an sdr signal from voodoo

i've seen it happen only with the vodou

so far

dog revision is in the case of disney

plus for example it sends an hdr10

signal

in the case of hbo max it sends an hdr

signal

and apple t and apple movies it sends an

hdr10 signal as well

but in the case of voodoo that's the

only one i've seen

that sends an sdr signal and it must be

a bug with their system but

i've noticed that for a while and it

still continues to this day

back onto sound don't be at most the

object-oriented sound format

which represents sound as objects moving

throughout your room

is only available on the apple tv 4k

when it's connected to a compatible

device so whether

it's a tv that supports dolby atmos like

say the lg oleds

and their more recent lcd tvs or

if it's a receiver which supports dolby

atmos or your sum bar of course so if

the device that you have connected to it

doesn't support dolby atmos then you

will not see the enable adobe atmos

setting

in the apple tv 4k operationally it's

extremely similar to

the old apple tv 4k now of course it has

a faster processor so

you can play games faster and better

with better graphics

and all of that but if you're primarily

concerned with watching movies

and listening to music and and thus the

audio video quality of the device then

it's functionally the same except for

two things

now the first thing is this new version

has an earc

port now normally you don't find erc

ports

on streaming boxes but apple included in

this

apple tv 4k because it enables them to

send the uncompressed audio from the tv

to the apple tv via the erc port because

that's what it's for

and then in turn send that audio signal

to

your home pod if you're using it as a

speaker connected to your apple tv 4k

so it has a very specific use case

otherwise it didn't make sense to me

because

the audio that comes from the apple tv

4k

can be compressed or uncompressed there

was no limitation based

on the port that it uses being hdmi 2.0

the other thing is now it has the

horsepower to actually

playback hdr videos on youtube because

the old version

apparently didn't have enough horsepower

to play back

youtube encoded hdr videos but i hope

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