dolby vision 2

This is the bit of the Dolby Vision 2 rollout that's going to annoy people. Dolby has confirmed that existing Ultra HD Blu-ray players can potentially work with the new format without a new optical drive or a rebuilt player architecture, because most of the processing lives in the TV. The...

Dolby has been explaining why DV2 shipped in two flavours, and the split is a licensing decision wearing a product decision costume. Dolby Vision 2 Max is meant to take over the premium slot that plain Dolby Vision holds today. Standard Dolby Vision 2 is the cheaper licence, aimed at sets that...

John Archer has a UR9 in for review that already took the Dolby Vision 2 firmware, and his writeup is the first one I have seen from someone driving the menus rather than reading a press release. Two things stood out. First, most of what was announced at IFA last year is sitting there greyed...

The Hisense update went out today and it covers the UX, UR9, UR8 and the U7 - U7 Pro if you are in Europe - running either Google TV or VIDAA. North America, Europe and APAC all at once, over the air. Hisense beat TCL to it, and TCL plus European Philips are supposed to follow later this year...

So the format war has a first shot fired. Samsung put the announcement out yesterday: HDR10+ Advanced goes live on Prime Video globally sometime this month, and Samsung's 2026 sets are the first hardware to take it. Dolby Vision 2 was announced back in September 2025, a couple of months earlier...