Without getting into too many details, the YCbCr color space is used by the media industry to optimize a video signal by devoting more information to the parts that the human eye can better perceive. The new color format setting is essentially now letting you decide if you want the Fire TV to handle the conversion to RGB, in which case you would leave the Fire TV’s color format set to RGB, or if you want your TV to handle the conversion to RGB, in which case you would set the Fire TV’s color format to YCbCr. Here is info on making the decision from AFTVNews: This tip is moot if you spend most of your time gaming on the FTV 4K Stick or if you use it with a computer monitor. YCbCr allows your TV to decode the signal (something the TV engineers have precisely calibrated) instead of having the deciding take place on your device. I don’t want to get too much into the details of it, but most TV and movies is encoded in YCbCr and this is the format you should use for most of what the device is used for. Picture became noticeably sharper and color much more rich and accurate. In Settings///Display & Audio, I changed the output as YCbCr instead of the default, RGB. I changed one setting on the FTV 4K Stick that has drastically improved the PQ and has made it as good as the ATV 4K. ![]() I also bought a FTV 4K Stick during Black Friday, and I love it, except I noticed that the PQ on it seemed to be inferior to the ATV 4K. Most recently, I’ve been using the ATV 4K and I’m pretty impressed with the picture quality on it, but I’m frustrated with the touch remote and their locked down ecosystem. ![]() Longtime Fire TV owner, but I’m also a tech nerd so I have a ton of other devices that do the same thing including a Chromecast and an Apple TV 4K.
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