Samsung Introduces HDR10+ Support in Amazon Prime Video in US

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From December 13, American users of Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video will be able to watch material in hdr10+. The support is only available on Samsung’s relatively expensive Qled and UHD TVs.

In total, about 100 TV series and movies will support HDR10+, including The Grand Tour, The Thick and The Man in the High Castle. This is reported by the English-language South Korean newspaper The Korea Herald. The three titles mentioned are all Amazon productions that can only be seen on the Prime Video streaming service. Support is still limited to a number of Samsung devices and is currently only available in the United States. It is not clear when HDR10+ support on Prime Video will also be available in Europe.

Samsung and Amazon presented the hdr10+ standard in April, with Amazon announcing that it will use the standard for its streaming service. In August it turned out that Samsung is also working with Panasonic and 20th Century Fox to support HDR10+. A month ago, TP Vision, the company that markets Philips-branded televisions, said it will also support HDR10+. In any case, all Philips OLED TVs that come on the market in 2018 will probably support HDR10+.

Samsung has already activated the HDR10+ standard in more recent high-quality TVs, although this does not yet work via HDMI. From January, the standard should be available for manufacturers of TVs and Blu-ray players, among others. Samsung wants to counterbalance the Dolby Vision standard with hdr10+.

Both Dolby Vision and hdr10+ support dynamic metadata, but there are some key differences. Dolby Vision supports 12-bit color reproduction and a maximum brightness of 10,000 cd/m². Samsung’s standard goes up to 1000 cd/m². In addition, Dolby asks for a license fee for applying its own standard, while Samsung only charges a small administration fee.

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