Hi Neil, It seems that I am living in the past. Having a dedicated Mac Mini as a media server for an Apple TV device is archaic. I’m lucky that the Computers App still gives some functionality with Mojave and High Sierra! I should be using Catalina and the TV App(s) for Mac and the Apple TV device. The TV App is dedicated to improving Apple’s bottom line (and to spoiling mine). The app just streams a previously purchased and downloaded video from the internet instead of from the Mac Mini. Yet to work out how to delete the 4GB file from the Apple TV internal memory.
Enough of a rant for this weekend. I have a bootable copy of macOS Catalina on an external hard drive. It may give some amusement to get it to talk to the Apple TV. But then, probably not. . . Cheers, Alan > On 29 Feb 2020, at 9:07 pm, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for responding. I will check out both the Apple and Panasonic > settings more critically. > > I did change the AppleTV default from 1080p-60Hz to 1080p-50Hz a long time > ago. No change in viewing quality detected. > > Quality of actual iTunes movies is as expected, as is quality of ABC iView, > YouTube, SBS etc via their respective apps. Correct aspect ratios, letterbox > masks and full screens when appropriate. It seems to be just the "top level” > Computer app with it’s menu that is causing the problem. The menu bar is > fixed - it would be nice if it floated up out of sight when scrolling through > the list. Both ABC and SBS do this. > > Cheers, > Alan > >> On 29 Feb 2020, at 7:31 pm, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alan, >> >> Without being familiar with your specific gear and setup, the following is >> fairly general. >> >> If the truncation is happening on your TV screen it may be down to your TV's >> screen setting. Different TVs seem to do this differently but generally >> somewhere in the Smart TV menu there will be various setup pages and >> somewhere there will be screen settings - maybe called screen mode or aspect >> ratio or display settings. Some of these may "stretch" the picture or >> truncate top and/or bottom - these used to be a lot more of a problem in the >> early days when broadcasters and TVs seemed to have more variance in >> broadcast and display resolutions - and less smarts to auto detect and >> display. >> >> I'm not familiar with the 4th gen Apple TVs but the older ones also had >> settings to allow you to select your desired output resolution to match >> whatever display/TV you were connected to. >> >> So - if both are relevant to your setup, I would suggest you check both sets >> of settings: >> • resolution setting on the Apple TV >> • screen settings on your smart TV >> >> Somewhere amongst that you should be able to match the output of your Apple >> TV to the display area on your TV. >> >> HTH >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of Alan >> Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> >> Reply-To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> >> Date: Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 17:00 >> To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> >> Subject: Apple TV - Computer App - video thumbnails truncated >> >> My Apple TV device is most often used to play videos (Movies, TV Shows >> etc) via iTunes and the Computer App. Thumbnails of each video are displayed >> in a grid with a cover art image and the title under it. I can scroll down >> to view all thumbnails. However the bottom row is truncated and the titles >> and lower part of the cover art cannot be seen. >> >> I need to read the title! This problem has existed for a year or so. >> >> I am using an Apple TV HD (4th Generation) with tvOS 13.3.1 connected to a >> Panasonic ET5A series smart TV. >> >> Any solution? Do other wamug members have a similar experience? >> >> Regards, >> Alan >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
