UI dark and muted in color on One X

While we're talking about colors, I wish we had more color choices for the XB1 home screen UI.

Xbox One UI is continuously going through enhancements and I believe it would be a similar UI for the series X with no major changes.

Hi, and thanks for reaching out. My name is Miguel O., Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue!

Please proceed to do a power cycle to fix the issue

1. Turn off your console by holding the Xbox button  on the front of the console for approximately 10 seconds. The console will turn off.

2. Turn your console back on by pressing the Xbox button  on the console or the Xbox button  on your controller.

If you don't see the green boot-up animation when the console restarts, repeat these steps. Make sure that you hold the power button until the console completely shuts down.

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Firebird, yes it's clear there is an attempt at a mode switch because the screen goes dark and re-initializes but like I said the Netflix app then displays very muted colors like its expecting to output HDR but half the color data is missing. If I back out
to the dashboard, the off-color stays. But if I then quit Netflix, the screen display re-initialized and colors are back to normal.

Clearly the Netflix app believes it is in HDR mode because HDR-enabled titles are clearly labeled as such when I have my One S in HDR mode. If I disable HDR, then the Netflix app no longer displays the HDR label on compatible titles. Only 4K UltraHD. So
the app is trying but something is off.

I know others are having a similar issue...there is a Reddit thread about Netflix displaying muted colors on Xbox One S in HDR mode. So it's not just us.

Would be nice to get an official word on this and hear that a fix is coming. I can tell you that Mad Max looks incredible with HDR enabled. I wasn't sure how much of a difference it would make, the the clarity and contrast on the colors is night-and-day
vs HDR turned off. Would be very nice to have Netflix working properly as well.

Thank you for your answer, but I think you did not understand my question. To sum up: 4k doesn't matter.

The problem is that hdr blu-rays work fine on ps5 (good colors).

So the HDR to SDR conversion is correct. But on xbox series x, in comparison with ps5, the picture is too dark.

So the HDR to SDR conversion on the xbox series x is bugged. I don't think it's a washout color issue.