Many people don't prefer Samsung TVs because they lack support for Dolby Vision for HDR videos. Instead, they support HDR10+, which is equivalent to Dolby Vision but is an open and royalty-free standard. However, HDR10+ content is limited. Now, Netflix, one of the world's biggest video streaming platforms, has announced that it will soon start streaming videos in HDR10+.
Netflix's HDR10+ video streaming could come to Samsung TVs, phones, tablets, and more
Netflix announced earlier today that it has started streaming videos in HDR10+ format on its platform. However, HDR10+ videos will only be available on devices with the AV1 codec and HDR10+ certification. Moreover, only select titles will be streaming in the HDR10+ format as of now, and more more videos will be available in HDR10+ format in the future.
Earlier, Netflix only supported streaming HDR videos in HDR10 and Dolby Vision. In the future, the company hopes to have all HDR content available on its platform in HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision formats.
Netflix first started using AV1 codec to offer high-quality videos to people streaming on their phones. This helped in reducing the amount of data required to stream high-quality videos. Now, the compression technology has become an industry standard for 4K HDR video streaming.
So, eligible Samsung laptops, smart monitors, phones, tablets, and TVs should soon be able to stream HDR10+ videos on Netflix. All Samsung smart TVs released in 2020 and later support AV1 and HDR10+. This should give people one less reason to worry about while buying a TV.
What is HDR10+?
HDR10+ videos should offer deeper colors, a wider dynamic range, and more realism. Like Dolby Vision, it offers a high dynamic range on a frame-by-frame basis, also known as dynamic metadata.
However, as we mentioned earlier, HDR10+ is open and royalty-free, while Dolby Vision is a proprietary format and device makers need to pay royalty to Dolby to use it.
Supoprt for HDR10+ content seems to be improving over the past two years. A couple of years ago, Apple announced support for HDR10+ for Apple TV+ and iTunes video content. A few weeks ago, Disney+ also announced support for HDR10+ videos on its platform.
