Netflix has announced that it adds the support of the HDR HDR10 + Advanced format, which is a Dolby Vision rival, and is supported on Samsung, Panasonic, Hisense and TCL televisions.
You will need a Netflix Premium account to access HDR10 +, and Netflix said that, initially, it will be available on 50% of “eligible visualization hours”, including new versions and existing films and emissions on the platform.
What exactly we mean by “eligible vision hours” is not clear, but I suppose that it does not necessarily mean on 50% of HDR titles, but rather that only half of the total number of hours of content is possible to visualize in HDR.
In any case, Netflix says that its plan is to have an HDR10 + support on each film and HDR show by the end of the year.
This is excellent news for owners of the best Samsung televisions and the best Samsung phones, because these do not support Dolby Vision HDR – in the world of televisions, Samsung is the only brand that does not support the format on its premium televisions.
HDR10 + and Dolby Vision are superior to the ordinary HDR (officially called HDR10) because they can take care of a wider dynamic range to make the most of the brighter and daring televisions, but they can also integrate the seal map by a scene-which means that instead of your TV having to work as best as possible to get all the details of a Super-Grêle or Super Included in the video flow.
This should mean fewer protruding facts, fewer crushed blacks and a global look closer to the original master version of one of the best Netflix films or one of the best Netflix programs.
Dolby Vision is generally considered technically higher and is more widely taken care of in the equipment and on streaming services – but despite this, the support has increased for HDR10 + in recent years, and it has already become available on Prime Video and Apple TV +. Now Netflix has joined the party.
Do not expect a new dawn for HDR10 +
Although HDR10 + is available on the largest streaming service in the world, I do not expect to see the long -term retained on the format – LG and Sony – supporting it in their televisions.
I questioned LG about the potential to support him now that he is on more streaming services (and there are large Blu -ray 4K who use it) directly during a launch event for his 2025 televisions – Read our C5 five -star LG C5 opinion if you are interested in this – and we were told “that we do not believe”.
Sony has not yet announced its televisions in 2025, but we saw a demo of its new generation mini-drive technician, and the company did not seem advanced by the idea of adding new formats during this launch event.
One thing that LG has noted is that, although the HDR10 + support increases, it tends to be an additional alternative to Dolby Vision on the best streaming services, not a replacement – so by supporting Dolby Vision, the company provides all the advanced HDR medium it deems necessary.
This approach saved by the way Netflix adds its support: the company confirmed that it asked the production companies and the studios to provide it with the Dolby Vision version, then adds the HDR10 + support as part of its technological pipeline. This means that everything with HDR10 + must logically also have a Dolby vision support.
However, it is ideal for owners of Samsung in particular, who can get a good boost of image – in particular for its less brilliant televisions, such as its low level OLED and its QLED budgetary models, which have no high -end brightness, and therefore the mapping of the tone is really important for them.
