Apple TV app on Samsung smart TVs can now stream HDR10+ videos

As we all know, Samsung doesn't support the Dolby Vision format for HDR videos on its TVs. Instead, the company uses the HDR10+ format that it co-developed with Amazon and a few other brands. Last month, Apple added support for HDR10+ videos to Apple TV video streaming boxes with the tvOS 16 update. Now, the company is adding support for HDR10+ video streaming on its Apple TV app.

The Apple TV app on Samsung smart TVs can now stream HDR10+ videos after the latest update. Content from Apple TV and iTunes movie rentals is now showing up in HDR10+, in addition to HDR. So, people can take advantage of HDR videos in a format that's better than the HDR10 standard while streaming content from Apple's streaming service. However, only those videos will show up in the HDR10+ format, whose HDR10+ master file is provided by their production studio.

HDR10+ is highly similar to Dolby Vision. Both formats offer dynamic metadata (frame-by-frame or scene-by-scene) for high dynamic range videos. However, HDR10+ is an open-source format, while Dolby Vision is a proprietary format. Of late, Dolby Vision has garnered higher support, and only Samsung TVs exclusively use the HDR10+ format.

It is reported that Google is developing a combination of high-end audio and video formats to rival Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. It is looking to bring them under one umbrella branding. Google will reportedly use HDR10+ as the HDR video format and is working with multiple brands to make it a success.

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

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Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S21 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.

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