[WeldSpark]

Just bought a Nvidia Shield. Problem is that that the colors seem washed out. My TV is Sony 65xf9005.

Is it just to return it or is there something to try before returning it?

I tried different modes, tried with enhanced hdmi and none on my TV settings.

So confirming you have the SDR (Rec.709) color conversion > TV display issue when the Shield is set to 4K 59.940Hz YUV420 10-bit Rec.2020
As displayed in the top picture in @hdmkv's post HERE ?

NVIDIA need to implement colorspace switching, and that needs to be done at the Linux Kernel / driver level, independant of Google's OS.
Like all the other Android chipset vendors have already done.

I will be very surprised if that ends up being a quick fix. A whole bunch of testing needs to be done as well.

Thanks for pitching in. No I used the wrong terminology. It's not washed out, comparing to the pictures you linked to.

The picture on the Shield, especially in Kodi seems darker. In android tv the colors seem oversaturated. I'm not a tv calibration expert, but somethings feels off.

I use the same TV image settings that I use on Odroid c2, it's recommended settings from rtings.com, they have worked satisfactory on my Odroid.

I can only compare to my Odroid c2. I hope you can understand what I mean, it's hard to explain.

I use 1080p in Nvidia shield, because most of my content is 1080p. The inbuilt scaling from 1080 to 4k was quite bad. But I guess in Kodi it will change resolution depending on the source.

Just found out something, when I manually change color color spaces on the TV settings (or what it's called) it gets better. sRGB/BT.709 is better, when I switch to BT.2020 it gets over saturated.

In other words, if I want to watch HDR content I need to manually switch color space?