Official:HBO Max Becomes Max

[TravisTylerBlack]

This 4K situation is an absolute mess. I went ahead and forced Dolby Vision on my AppleTV settings (match range/frame rate was already on) but now it just looks like fake HDR.

The difference is more obvious when comparing the streams to the physical UHDs for titles I own like Wizard of Oz, Hook, Singing In The Rain, etc.

I AM getting Atmos at least. What a headache.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by TravisTylerBlack

This 4K situation is an absolute mess. I went ahead and forced Dolby Vision on my AppleTV settings (match range/frame rate was already on) but now it just looks like fake HDR.

The difference is more obvious when comparing the streams to the physical UHDs for titles I own like Wizard of Oz, Hook, Singing In The Rain, etc.

I AM getting Atmos at least. What a headache.

They look like upscales because Max is not done updating the streaming masters. A lot of titles have the 4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos notice on the page but are still the HD SDR versions like Halloween Kills. Others have the Dolby Vision badge but are applying DV to the HD stream like Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz.

Titles that have the 4K Dolby Vision or 4K UHD badges (next to the runtime) have been fully updated. Note that the 4K UHD badged titles are SDR so again, a DV/HDR layer added by the AppleTV.

Warner Discovery needs to be bombarded with requests for Range Matching to fix this.

I also tried the XBox app and it only supports HDR10. But once a stream triggers HDR10 then it stays stuck in HDR forcing that over the image.

[TravisTylerBlack]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

They look like upscales because Max is not done updating the streaming masters. A lot of titles have the 4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos notice on the page but are still the HD SDR versions like Halloween Kills. Others have the Dolby Vision badge but are applying DV to the HD stream like Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz.

Titles that have the 4K Dolby Vision or 4K UHD badges (next to the runtime) have been fully updated. Note that the 4K UHD badged titles are SDR so again, a DV/HDR layer added by the AppleTV.

Warner Discovery needs to be bombarded with requests for Range Matching to fix this.

I also tried the XBox app and it only supports HDR10. But once a stream triggers HDR10 then it stays stuck in HDR forcing that over the image.

Face firmly in the palm of my hand right now. They’ve made this so much harder than it needed to be. Dolby Vision implementation on the old app was more than solid. Why mess with it?

These aren’t 4K Firesticks, Warner. We don’t need your subpar in-app player to do the heavy lifting.

[Jumpman]

Originally Posted by TravisTylerBlack

Face firmly in the palm of my hand right now. They’ve made this so much harder than it needed to be. Dolby Vision implementation on the old app was more than solid. Why mess with it?

These aren’t 4K Firesticks, Warner. We don’t need your subpar in-app player to do the heavy lifting.

The old app had this exact same problem when it debuted until they fixed it. I am sure the same will happen here.