Apple TV & LG TV Upscaling

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Paul1977

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#317885 23-Nov-2024 19:17

With Black Friday sales I’m thinking about getting a new LG G4 TV.

I play all my content through an Apple TV 4K. The LG uses AI upscaling, while the Apple TV doesn’t. But from what I can tell the Apple TV outputs at 4K even if it’s playing a 1080p file (or lower), so does that mean the LG won’t try to do any of it’s own upscaling because it will see it as already being 4K?

Senecio

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#3312251 23-Nov-2024 19:46

You can set the ATV to 1080p and let the LG do the upscaling but then the ATV will downscale 2160p content to be re-upscaled. Bets to leave it to the ATV. I don’t care how fancy the TV is, I’ve never seen any do a better job than an ATV 4K.

davidcole

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#3312259 23-Nov-2024 21:42

Senecio:
You can set the ATV to 1080p and let the LG do the upscaling but then the ATV will downscale 2160p content to be re-upscaled. Bets to leave it to the ATV. I don’t care how fancy the TV is, I’ve never seen any do a better job than an ATV 4K.

This. I have a Panasonic OLED 4k tv. If I run the same video in plex (1080p), the Apple tv looks so much better

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Paul1977

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#3312349 24-Nov-2024 10:34

Thanks.

Obviously don’t want to set the ATV at 1080p, because I watch a lot of native 4K.

A shame there’s no setting on ATV to output native resolution like there is for dynamic range and frame rate. That way you could choose which device does the upscaling.

pbjtime

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#3312697 25-Nov-2024 14:33

ATV's upscaling is almost non-existent. Depends on the app you use, some players have their own upscaling algorithm, e.g. infuse (which is also very basic like what's the point).

Sony's new lineup can apparently detect the "true" resolution of the source and apply the upscaling accordingly.