xbox one s displaying a limited amount of colors and shades

the rodent who yells at · Jul 26, 2022

my brother was playing minecraft earlier and he says the colors just suddenly changed. i originally thought he had accidentally messed with colorblindness settings somewhere, but the odd effect shows up everywhere, in every game. i looked around in the settings of the console and the settings of the tv. i even changed the hdmi cable. but it still displays only shades of green, blue and purple. (a little bit of yellow too, but its leaning more towards green.) the tv doesn't seem to be the problem, as other channels display normal colors just fine.

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Francia J.

Hi, I hope you're doing great despite the issue you're experiencing. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you in regard to your concern.

To fix this, please perform a power cycle on your console by following the steps below:

POWERCYCLE CONSOLE

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 that didn't work resetting the console keeping games and apps will be the next option. Don't worry because as long as you're connected to Xbox Live your saved progress, games, will not be deleted. It will remove all of your accounts but you can add all of them later on.

Press the Xbox button to open the guide.

Select Profile & system > Settings > System > Console info.

Select Reset console.

Reset and keep my games & apps.

Burst Axe

Its my favorite shade of the color green. That other shade was hideous.

BorealChicken9

After the recent April update my XBOX ONE S is no longer displaying colors correctly for any HDR content.

Melonhead Jones

They changed the green color used on the 360 dash to that darker Xbox One shade of green. My guess is that will be as close to the One that the 360 will get.

EShutka

Ive been curious why blu ray looks like crap (dull and washed out) regardless of what I set. I have my TV calibrated professionally but it was dialed in using my bluray player under YCbCr. As long as the One uses only the RGB color space blurays will never
look as accurate as it should be. I did however find something out that I notified MS about as I was digging for answers. My receiver tells me the signals it is seeing input and output. I noticed that the xbox One ONLY outputs RGB limited regardless what color
space you choose. If you use PC it is actually compressed into limited and the BTB and WTW is clipped. If your display is set to RGB full you will essentially see 16 shades of the same black. That explains the crushed blacks. Though less noticeable you are
also getting 16 shades of the same white.

Without the option to output straight to YCbCr which to me is preferable since the One is a bluray player, the One is pretty disappointing. I'm leaving it standalone just for games and everything else is going to my receiver. Until MS gets some better display
options added, we may be stuck with calibrating our TVs to RGB limited. Though this will throw off a direct YCbCr signal from a true BD player.

xbox one s displaying a limited amount of colors and shades