The new HDR10+ is gaining momentum, a new standard that is designed to take part in the Dolby Vision feature set and add it to the more commonly used royalty-free HDR10 standard.
HDR10+ will have the best of HDR and Dolby Vision
What the HDR10+ offers is support for dynamic tone mapping, allowing brightness, color saturation and contrast to be adjusted scene by scene while maintaining the compatibility of conventional HDR10 and enhancing the open standards of HDR to compete with the expensive, patented Dolby Vision format.
Samsung created the HDR10+ format and has already added support for the standard on its 4K TVs and 2016 HDR10 line-ups, attracting the attention of major manufacturers such as Panasonic, Amazon (Prime Video) and 20th Century Fox to create the HDR10+ Alliance.
While TVs and the content of this new standard already exist, the industry still needs devices that support it, which is why the Alliance of Manufacturers plans to begin certifying displays later this month. So far, more than 40 companies have expressed interest in creating HDR10+ devices, which will include UHD Blu-ray players, displays and other hardware.
Several major display manufacturers are already betting on Dolby Vision, such as Sony, LG and Vizio, which means that the HDR format war is far from over, although it will be interesting to see if any of these companies plan to adopt HDR10+ in the near future. Currently, there are no TVs that support both HDR10 and Dolby view simultaneously, although Panasonic is working on UHD Blu-ray players that support both standards.