Samsung TV owners will be particularly happy
After multiple false dawns, Apple has finally enabled support for the HDR10+ HDR format through its Apple TV app on a range of devices. I spotted this myself last night while catching up on another episode ofthrough the Apple TV app on a Samsung TV, and I’m now seeing it being confirmed by other Apple TV+ users with HDR10+-capable TVs, too.
HDR10+, if you’re not familiar with it, is a type of high dynamic range TV technology which adds extra scene by scene data to HDR streams to help compatible TVs deliver better HDR pictures. In this respect it works like the rival Dolby Vision format; in fact, its lead creator, Samsung, developed it precisely as an open standard alternative to Dolby Vision.
Perhaps the most important thing about HDR10+ for the purposes of this Apple TV development, though, is that it’s the only HDR format to add scene by scene HDR data that’s supported by Samsung TVs. They don’t support Dolby Vision. So until now no Samsung TV owners have been able to enjoy a premium HDR experience from their Apple TV apps - a big deal given that Samsung is the world’s biggest selling TV brand....
Picture Mode setting option below and to the left of Ted's face, you can see under the two circles that the show is playing in HDR10+.There are other TV brands that support HDR10+ too, though many of those also support Dolby Vision. As with the Dolby Vision support that Apple has carried on its app for years now, Apple’s new HDR10+ support works on some rather than all of the content the platform carries. It appears, so far as I can tell, to be available on all Apple-created/owned TV+ shows and films, while a quick run through of some of the third party films on my account finds that it’s available onBullet Train