Dolby Announces Dolby Vision 2, Expanding Picture Quality 'beyond Hdr'

Dolby Vision has been one of nan manufacture standards for HDR connected TVs for complete a decade. At IFA 2025, Dolby Laboratories is introducing Dolby Vision 2, what it calls "a groundbreaking improvement of its industry-leading image value innovation." The 2nd loop has been updated to meet nan capabilities of today's TV exertion and nan ever-expanding group of creator tools. Dolby Vision 2 includes a much powerful image engine, amended optimization for your TV and features that spell "beyond HDR."

The guidelines of Dolby Vision 2 is called Content Intelligence. Dolby says these devices supply a amended "bridge" betwixt nan imaginative professionals and nan surviving room by utilizing AI to automatically accommodate your TV to what your watching and wherever you're watching it. Content Intelligence includes devices for illustration Precision Black to thief support darker scenes visible and Light Sense that detects ambient ray to create nan champion picture. There's besides Sports and Gaming Optimization that caters to nan circumstantial needs of unrecorded sports and gaming pinch upgrades to achromatic constituent adjustments and mobility control.

Bi-directional reside mapping will let premium TVs nutrient "deliver higher brightness, sharper opposition and profoundly saturated colors" while maintaining creator intent, Dolby explains. That "beyond HDR" push includes features for illustration Authentic Motion. This instrumentality is what Dolby calls "the world’s first imaginative driven mobility power instrumentality to make scenes consciousness much authentically cinematic."

When it's fresh for nan surviving room, Dolby Vision 2 will beryllium offered successful 2 ways. First, Dolby Vision 2 Max will travel connected premium TVs to harness each of their processing powerfulness to supply unsocial premium features. Regular Dolby Vision 2 is what you'll find connected mainstream TVs pinch features that tally connected nan caller image motor and Content Intelligence.

When caller standards for illustration this are introduced, sometimes it takes a while for them to really make it into products you tin buy. Dolby says Hisense will beryllium nan first to bring Dolby Vision 2 to market, offering support for nan caller modular connected its "premium" TVs, including RGB-MiniLED models. What's more, French streaming work Canal+ is besides connected board, aiming to leverage nan caller exertion for movies, TV shows and unrecorded sports.

You'll want to tune into our CES sum successful January, because Dolby Vision 2 will surely beryllium a taxable of chat for nan companies that typically debut caller TVs successful Las Vegas. Perhaps we'll besides get a demo of what this second-gen tech is tin of astatine nan show arsenic well.