Philips TV’s and their ignorance of dismissing the Dolby Vision Color Banding issues
Having recently bought a Philips TV with Dolby Vision support and getting an Apple TV 4K as a part of the deal, I was excited through the roof to try it out – to no avail. Apparently, after a lot of searching and troubleshooting, buying new cables, scrolling through all the settings on my TV and ATV, nothing seems to help.
Philips apparently has a problem with what is called ”color banding” when using Dolby Vision with, specifically, the Apple TV 4K. If you do not know what color banding is, it is when enough color isn’t being distributed to the TV, resulting in ugly and distracting circular shapes of color being abruptly changed instead of flowing together.
Since this issue seems to have been reported a year back already, with no fix from Philips TV, the brand once again suffers from insufficent customer service and clearly shows that they cut costs to only create new average products.
So if you’re wondering – this is not you who’s messing up the settings. It’s Philips incompetence of listening and making the best out of their products.
4K HDR works great though, but as someone who has bought a TV that supports Dolby Vision as one of the big reasons; it makes me rather bothered by this issue that should have been fixed since day 01.
