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Ultra HD, HDR, 4K, OLED, HDR10+: Anyone buying a new TV is bombarded with obscure abbreviations. Here’s what lies behind the acronym HDR10+.
What you need to know about HDR10+
HDR10+ promises even more dynamic and high-contrast images for a superb TV viewing experience. Here’s what the standard entails:
- The abbreviation HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. HDR10 means HDR with 10-bit colour depth.
- The HDR10+ standard is a development by Samsung and Amazon Video.
- It is an open HDR standard that dynamically transmits additional information regarding brightness and contrast to the Smart TV.
- The transmitted data is used to calculate and adjust the ideal brightness and contrast levels for each individual scene.
- All new Samsung UHD Smart TVs support the standard. Older UHD Smart TV models, starting with the M Series released in 2017, offer support for HDR10+ content. However, other manufacturers also offer support for the standard.
This is how the standard differs from Dolby Vision
Whilst HDR10 content merely provides static metadata for scene sequences, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision enable individually tailored images thanks to the additional data provided. But how do the two advanced HDR standards differ?
- Dolby Vision allows individual metadata to be stored for every scene or frame. This enables significantly better images.
- HDR10+ provides dynamic metadata. The standard transmits information to the TV to continually reconfigure and recalculate colours and contrasts.
- Dolby charges a fee to providers and manufacturers, whilst Samsung’s HDR10+ is free of charge for them.
- No significant differences in quality can be detected.
- Dolby Vision is currently the more widely used standard, as it is supported by streaming providers such as Netflix and Prime. HDR10+ is also available on Prime, but not on Netflix.
