Warner Bros. announces support for hdr10+
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that it will provide support for HDR10+, which aims to compete with Dolby Vision. For example, company content must be viewable on devices that support the standard.
In the announcement, published by Samsung, Warner Bros. that about 75 4k HDR titles will become available, in addition to this year’s releases. The company also already offers support for Dolby Vision. The announcement is part of announcing further details of the hdr10+ licensing program.
That should start soon for manufacturers of TVs and players, among other things. They do not pay any royalties, but pay a fixed administrative amount per year. The program must provide manufacturers with the necessary technical specifications. These should be made available on a specially designed site, which is not yet online. At the current announcement, the companies also showed the hdr10+ logo.
Samsung announced in August of last year that it will work with 20th Century Fox and Panasonic to support HDR10+. With this, Samsung wants to counterbalance the Dolby Vision standard. Recently, Amazon, which originally launched the standard in April 2017 along with Samsung, introduced support for HDR10+ for its Prime Video service in the US.
Hdr10+ is an extension of the hdr10 standard and uses dynamic metadata rather than static metadata.