Disney Plus announced during CES 2025 that it will soon begin broadcasting video content in HDR10+ format on its streaming platform.
This update is particularly relevant for users of Samsung smartphones, tablets and TVs, as HDR10+ is a high dynamic range imaging standard co-developed by Samsung itself together with 20th Century Fox, Amazon and Panasonic. Unlike Dolby Vision, HDR10+ is a royalty-free format that offers dynamic frame-by-frame metadata to enhance image quality.
Disney+’s adoption of HDR10+ follows that of other major streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+. Netflix, by contrast, currently only supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
For Samsung devices, which do not support Dolby Vision, the arrival of HDR10+ content represents a significant improvement in visual quality. In the absence of HDR10+, content would be played in standard HDR10 or even SDR.
In addition to streaming services, HDR10+ is also gaining ground in other industries, such as gaming, hardware and TV, where the ATSC 3.0 terrestrial television broadcast standard (NextGen TV) supports HDR10+
Although Dolby Vision is currently more widespread, the adoption of HDR10+ by a major player like Disney+ could accelerate the production of content in this format, offering users greater choice in terms of image quality.
With the announcement of Disney+, it is therefore expected that an increasing amount of content will be released in HDR10+ in the near future, expanding options for consumers and potentially influencing the choices of device manufacturers and content creators.
Source: www.tomshw.it
