AppleTV 3.01 video output seems extremely 'contrasty'

When I first plugged in my refurb 40Gb unit running 3.01 I though, hmm, that's very contrasty, highlights blown, artwork/thumbnails, well very contrasty - a bit like setting your Tv to those horrendous dynamic picture settings that overblow everything.
Initially I realised that 3.01 no longer made any difference to video output on either of my Panasonic sets when changing HDMI output from High to Low, whereas previously they always did.
Again, I just watched a newly converted home video on both a 3.01 and a 2.1 machine I've not upgraded and 3.01 output is considerably more contrasty - noticebale enough to irritate. Weird.

Roidy wrote:
Chenks wrote:
It's just by my thinking it's more likley to be a hardware problem. The 3.0.1 software is the same regardless of weather it's running on your ATV my ATV or anyone else's. Now the hardware is susceptible to any number of external factors eg overheating. All it takes is one faulty component or bad solder connection and who knows what problems it will cause. What I'm trying to say is everybodys ATV software is an exact copy of each others. The only variations that can happen are in the hardware.
That's a perfectly valid consideration.
Things is we've seen many posts along the lines of 'since update x my AppleTv no longer does y via HDMI' - things like it used to support 1080p, now only 1080i, or I used to have 480i/p but no longer do.
However, such findings were observed by only a couple of people, so assuming AppleTV hardware and software to be constant, the only additional variable is what AppleTv is connected to via HDMI - the TV.
My assumption has been that something has changed in terms of HDMI negotiation software/drivers resulting in AppleTv not giving the same HDMI options it did in earlier software. Make sense?
If you were really brave you could upgrade your 2.0 ATV to 3.0.1 and see if the RGB High/Low function works and that would confirm it's a hardware problem.
That had crossed my mind.

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