dolby vision

If your Bravia started throwing a black screen at Dolby Vision playback back in July, there is a newer build out and it is worth grabbing, with a caveat you should know before you get your hopes up. The one that caused the mess is 114.602.080.1, pushed to a spread of Sony sets around the end of...

Robert Harris has put up one of his short verdicts on the 1959 Ben-Hur in 4K, and it is about as clean a scorecard as that format produces. Image in Dolby Vision gets a 10 on both his forensic and his non-scientific marks, audio in Dolby Atmos gets a 10, it makes use of 4K and works well there...

Dolby has confirmed that existing Ultra HD Blu-ray players can potentially handle Dolby Vision 2 without a new optical drive or a redesigned player. Most of the new processing lives inside the television. The player's job is to recognise the signal, format it correctly and push it and its...

Eclipsa Video is another HDR format, this one built on SMPTE ST 2094-50, an open standard Google put together with Apple and NBCUniversal. The pitch is consistency: the same clip should look the same on your phone, your tablet and your TV, and you should stop getting slapped in the face by a...

Seattle is running its preseason streams through Dolby OptiView with Dolby Vision this year, on the Seahawks app and on Seahawks.com, and locally over the air through KING 5 on ATSC 3.0 if you have a tuner that can take it. Press conferences and the other live digital coverage get the same...

First proper hands-on account of Dolby Vision 2 running on a shipping Hisense UR9 is out, and the useful takeaway is not the headline features. Authentic Motion sits greyed out in the menu. Precision Black is waiting too. Both need content mastered with the extra DV2 metadata, and that content...

The Toy Story 5 disc details landed and one line is worth flagging: it is shipping on a 100GB 4K Blu-ray. Disney almost always uses the 66GB tier unless a film runs long, and this one is 102 minutes. Short film, biggest disc. That is more bitrate headroom than a 102-minute animated feature...

The Dolby Vision 2 story that matters this week is not the TV rollout, it is a one-line statement from Sony. After Dolby confirmed DV2 can be enabled on existing 4K Blu-ray players with firmware, TechRadar went and asked the player makers whether they would do it. Sony's answer was that it has...

Disney announced the Toy Story 5 disc details and the interesting part is buried near the bottom. The film runs 102 minutes and it is shipping on a 100GB disc. Disney's default for anything that is not a three hour epic is 66GB, and Archer says he double checked this with Disney twice because it...

The Dolby Vision 2 update has actually started landing on Hisense sets. The 6 August announcement lists UX, UR9, UR8 and U7, and it works whether your set runs Google TV or VIDAA, which is not nothing given Hisense uses different platforms in different regions. Rollout runs for weeks by region...

Picked this up mostly because I liked the first one enough to be curious, and the disc turned up last week. Fox/Disney put it out on July 28 in 2.39:1 with Dolby Vision and HDR10, Atmos on the UHD and DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 on the bundled Blu-ray. The review I read says picture and sound are...

Severin has put The War Game and Threads out on 4K UHD, and the disc spec on the Watkins film is the odd one. The War Game is a 48 minute 16mm black-and-white BBC telefilm from 1966, 1.33:1, and it arrives with Dolby Vision and HDR10 grades plus DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono spread across the two...

Blade Runner 2099 finally has a confirmed premiere date, which after the delays is more than I expected this year. My first thought was not casting or plot. It was whether it will actually look like a Blade Runner thing once it goes down a streaming pipe. 2049 is about the hardest material...

Digging through old firmware notes reminded me that AWOL had its laser projectors formally certified by Dolby Labs a couple of years back, and then shipped the feature as a free over the air update. You updated over Wi-Fi, a Dolby Vision option appeared in the menu, and the logo turned up once...

Outdoor TV with Dolby Vision: The 7 Best Models in 2026 Tested & Ranked · Published by ByteFree Product Team · 2026-04-21 Affiliate Disclosure: This article is published by ByteFree, the manufacturer of the BF-55ODTV. Every competitor specification below is sourced from public records...

TL;DR: BYTEFREE's 55" BF-55ODTV wins on picture and connectivity — 1,500 nits of brightness, Dolby Vision, five HDMI ports, and four active cooling fans leave the Sylvox Deck Pro 2.0 trailing on raw specs. Sylvox wins on cold-climate durability (operating down to -30°C vs BYTEFREE's 0°C floor)...

Over a decade after the introduction of Dolby Vision technology, this High Dynamic Range (HDR) format has received a significant upgrade. The new Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond the previous version's ability to simply optimize tone and brightness for different scenes. It now includes an innovative...