Amazon starts streaming video in HDR format

Amazon Prime is the first video streaming service that transmits images in HDR. The Mozart in the Jungle series will be available in that format at no additional cost to subscribers who have a Samsung TV with HDR support.

Initially it will only be about the Mozart in the Jungle series and the Red Oaks pilot that can be seen in HDR for American Prime subscribers with a Samsung UHDTV in HDR, but Amazon promises that more content will be available in HDR for more different types. TVs. Amazon is the first provider to make content streaming available in HDR.

HDR or high dynamic range was one of the techniques that TV manufacturers advanced at the CES at the beginning of this year to sell high-end devices. These TVs are capable of displaying a wider dynamic range; they reproduce highlights locally with a particularly high brightness, where local dimming with many zones leads to a large contrast between, for example, shadows and bright light.

Netflix called HDR more important than 4k at the beginning of this year, but it is not yet known when Netflix will roll out HDR support.