Dolby Vision Gaming Now Available on Xbox Series XIS

fr0sty11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

(From someone who produces HDR content for a living.)

Pros: Dolby Vision is technically superior to HDR 10 and HDR10+. It utilizes (up to) 12 bit color, which means over 60 billion possible colors (vs. 16.7 million on your average SDR TV and 1.04 billion for 10 bit formats like HDR10). It also supports per-scene metadata changes, so you can set the TV’s settings differently per-scene to achieve the best results (HDR10+ can do this as well.) How well that will work in a gameplay environment remains to be seen.

Cons: It’s Dolby, which means proprietary and expensive for developers to use, unlike the open formats like HLG, HDR10, etc. Also, because it is Dolby, and expensive to license, few TVs support it. Also, most HDR TVs can barely hit 1000 nits of brightness, which isn’t bright enough to utilize the full spectrum of possible colors that 12 bit video can produce (many “HDR” sets can’t even produce all of the shades and colors of 10 bit). OLED displays top out around 700 nits (but can hit much deeper, perfect blacks and purer, more vibrant color than any other type of TV, which is why they still qualify as HDR). Displays that go above 1k nits are not cheap, and won’t be for a while.

Dolby Vision Gaming Now Available on Xbox Series XIS
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