Dolby Vision is an HDR format developed by Dolby that, like HDR10+, uses dynamic metadata to describe brightness and colour on a scene by scene or frame by frame basis, rather than one fixed setting for a whole film. This is intended to help a television render each moment more accurately as content shifts between dark and very bright scenes.
Dolby Vision is a licensed format, and television manufacturers pay to include support for it, which has still resulted in broad adoption across many television brands, streaming services and some 4K discs. Because Dolby Vision content also carries a base HDR10 layer, a television without Dolby Vision support can still show the content in standard HDR10.
For buyers who watch a lot of Dolby Vision supported streaming titles, having Dolby Vision on the television can offer a modest but real improvement in tricky, high contrast scenes over static HDR10 alone. See our HDR explained guide for how it compares with HDR10+ and other formats.
