Roku and Google have confirmed plans to bring HDR 10+ to their streaming gadgets. For those who don’t know, HDR 10+ is a picture standard designed to bring dynamic colours and brightness to your content. It was designed by Samsung to challenge Dolby Vision – another popular standard from cinema maestros, Dolby.
Dolby Vision is incredibly popular with set-top box manufacturers. Amazon’s pricier Fire TV streaming dongles and the Apple TV 4K both support Dolby Vision, but haven’t adopted the Samsung competitor.
Samsung has managed to convince a number of prominent telly manufacturers to add its technology into their sets. And the fact that Samsung itself has been the biggest selling TV brand of the last fifteen years surely helps expand the reach of its HDR 10+ option too. But the tide is starting to turn.
Roku has confirmed plans to bring HDR 10+ to a number of its streaming gadgets, including the Express 4K+, Express 4K and Roku Ultra.
So, if you’re watching shows that were shot with Samsung’s colourful HDR 10+ format in mind on one of these devices, you should see a real…
