Using Apple TV with an Ultra Wide Screen

Hello everyone, I have an LG EA 93, which is an Ultra Wide monitor. The resolution is 2560 x 1080. I am considering the purchse of an Apple TV, however, I am worried that it won't function as expected with my monitor. When watching movies, which are in the cinemascope aspect, they display full screen on my monitor. When connecting an Apple TV, I understand that the menu system is in 16:9, however, when I open a 21:9 movie, will it display full screen on my monitor, or will it be letter and pillar boxed? For example: when watching a 21:9 movie on Netflix, I get letter and pillarboxing, ie the movie is surrounded by 4 black bars, essentially creting a frame.
Also, the monitor has dual inputs, which can be used simultaneously. If I conect my Mac and the Apple TV at the same time, will the Apple TV be able to cope witht he reduced resolution of 1280 x 1080?
Thank you very much for your help in advance

hello,
I have the above combo as well.
I configured the appleTV to always send 1920x1080 over the HDMI port to the LG ultrawide display then I switch the ratio using the ratio buton the remote between 1:1 for normal 16:9 content and select "Cinema1" if the content is ultrawide and then it fills the screen completely and looks great (you get black bars on all four sides as you described if you leave it on 1:1).
The scaling is very good and I hardly notice a drop in quality doing this. I don't think you can do 2560x1080 over HDMI versions before 2.0 or DVI, people have found ways to force it but you don't get the full 50/60Hz by doing this. If you don't trust the monitors scaling you can play the movie from a laptop with DisplayPort at 2560x1080 and use the scaling on the video application you're using - iTunes/VLC etc...
As far as I know neither the AppleTV or the UltraWide Monitor has a HDMI 2.0 port so you can't get that resolution anyway - but it really does not matter because the content is only 1920x800 so HDMI1.4 is perfectly capable of getting this content to the monitor and it's just a choice of whether you prefer the computers scaling or the monitors scaling.
Hope this helps!
Jonny

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