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Dolby Vision is also backward compatible with HDR10. That is, HDR10 playback devices can handle Dolby Vision contents just fine, although obviously at HDR10 spec.
Beyond cheaper loyalty (HDR10+ requires just annual fee, up to $10,000 whereas Dolby Vision requires royalty fee of round $2 per device), HDR10+ isn’t superior to Dolby Vision in any way.
Had Amazon and Samsung worked with Consumer Technology Association (created HDR10) to create HDR10 successor, or HDR10+, I would be in total agreement with you. But HDR10+ is a proprietary effort (although open source) meant to allow Samsung to avoid paying Dolby and collecting fees from its competitors.
I think the ship has sailed on HDR10+.
I quote a Netflix source since they work from Dolby Vision masters for all their streams….
“Are you preparing separate encodes for DoVi, HDR10 and Rec709 or can you create a single output that includes two or more?
Dolby tools natively enable deriving Rec. 709 and HDR-10 from the DoVi source. This allows us to produce all of our encodes from the Dolby Vision source. These profiles include the Rec. 709 profiles: CE1 & CE2 (legacy VC1), CE3 (H264), CE4 (10-bit HEVC, and VP9), and our mobile profiles AVC-HiProfile and VP9-M (8-bit), in addition to the CE4 HDR profiles: Dolby Vision and HDR10 (HEVC), and VP9.”
“Are there any unique controls for DoVi or HDR10 that you have to adjust to produce optimal output? Or is it simply a yes/no switch or something similar?
Many Dolby Vision masters are in P3 colorspace. For HDR10, we have to convert to rec.2020 color space with some processing and a color adjustment. If you are interested in more details, we published this paper that loosely describes how we optimize the quality of the HDR10 encodes derived from the DoVi masters.”
HDR10 stream always accompanies DV whether it be streamed or on a disc. But that is far from backwards compatible compared to any HDR10+ video playing on any standard HDR10 hardware, which is why I specified “on device”.
HDR10+ fees are for admin, logo (trademark use), and the patent claims/stand still (depending on your product). $10k fee is nothing compared to royalties on all your units sold.
I’m not sure about that ship sailing just yet either.
Google Play announced it was going to be supporting the format in there store. Android already has native support for it (on devices that can support HDR).
There isn’t really a good reason to not just support both DV and HDR10+ from most manufacturers POV. Its picking up traction slowly but surely. Amazon, Google, Panasonic, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, etc are pretty big companies to have a horse in the race. Meanwhile TV manufacturers have minimal investment and virtually no risk if they implement support.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-tv-generation-6-in-2020.2223532/
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