BigZ
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Digging into what Prime Video and Samsung are actually shipping this month, and the feature list is stranger than the headlines make it sound. HDR10+ Advanced has six listed pieces: enhanced overall brightness, intelligent motion smoothing, local tone mapping, genre based optimization, advanced color control and adaptive cloud gaming. The initial rollout leans on the first two. The spec allows brightness metadata up to 10,000 nits and 16-bit colour depth, which no current streaming pipeline or panel is going anywhere near, so treat that as headroom rather than a promise.
The part that made me stop was intelligent motion smoothing. We have spent fifteen years telling people to hunt down Auto Motion Plus and switch it off, and this format moves that decision upstream into the stream itself, scene by scene. In fairness that is a better place to make the call than a television guessing at 60Hz with no idea what it is looking at. But it is still interpolation, and now it arrives switched on with the content's blessing rather than as a setting you own.
Then the detail that ties it together: Filmmaker Mode reportedly does not participate. Which means the accurate viewing mode and the shiny new HDR format are two different paths and you pick one. Genre based optimization sitting in the same feature list does not help my mood, because a format deciding a film is an action film and adjusting accordingly is exactly the thing Filmmaker Mode exists to prevent.
Nobody has said which titles get it, when precisely, or whether 2025 Samsung sets ever see it. Has anyone with a 2026 panel actually seen the badge appear on something yet?
The part that made me stop was intelligent motion smoothing. We have spent fifteen years telling people to hunt down Auto Motion Plus and switch it off, and this format moves that decision upstream into the stream itself, scene by scene. In fairness that is a better place to make the call than a television guessing at 60Hz with no idea what it is looking at. But it is still interpolation, and now it arrives switched on with the content's blessing rather than as a setting you own.
Then the detail that ties it together: Filmmaker Mode reportedly does not participate. Which means the accurate viewing mode and the shiny new HDR format are two different paths and you pick one. Genre based optimization sitting in the same feature list does not help my mood, because a format deciding a film is an action film and adjusting accordingly is exactly the thing Filmmaker Mode exists to prevent.
Nobody has said which titles get it, when precisely, or whether 2025 Samsung sets ever see it. Has anyone with a 2026 panel actually seen the badge appear on something yet?
