- Disney Plus will offer HDR10+ streaming of movies and TV series
- It joins Prime Video and Apple in offering support for the HDR format
- HDR10+ is supported on Samsung TVs instead of Dolby Vision
Disney Plus will support HDR10+ streaming on movies and TV shows in the future, as reported by Media Play News. There is currently no time frame for when this will happen.
The announcement was made at a press conference at CES 2025 by a representative of Communication Research Inc
Disney Plus joins some of the top streaming services such as Prime Video, Apple TV Plus, Hulu, Paramount Plus and YouTube in supporting the premium HDR format. Disney Plus will continue to offer Dolby Vision HDR streaming as well.
HDR10+ is a premium HDR format that allows for a more dynamic, brighter and more contrasty image than SDR and HDR10. It is supported not only on streaming but also on 4K Blu-ray.
Why is this good news for Samsung TV owners? Until now, Disney Plus only offered Dolby Vision HDR quality, and since Samsung TVs don’t support Dolby Vision, opting instead to support HDR10+, viewers couldn’t get the most out of their hardware. With HDR10+ support coming to Disney Plus, Samsung TVs, some of the best TVs out there, will now have an upgraded picture when you watch the best Disney Plus shows.
Samsung TVs are not the only TVs that support HDR10+. Hisense, TCL, Panasonic and Philips in the UK all offer models that support HDR10+ as well as Dolby Vision. However, LG and Sony do not support HDR10+, not even on more premium sets such as the LG C4 OLED or Sony Bravia 9, opting instead for only Dolby Vision HDR support.
Good news for Samsung
It’s always seemed like a strange decision on Samsung’s part to constantly forego support for Dolby Vision in its TVs; a decision that hasn’t changed with its 2025 OLED TV or its 2025 mini-LED TV.
Many streaming services such as Netflix and Disney Plus initially chose to only support the Dolby Vision HDR format, meaning Samsung owners would miss out on the best possible picture quality on their TV. A TV like the Samsung S95D for example, one of the best OLED TVs in 2024, deserves the best quality on a streaming service.
But this decision by Disney means that Samsung TV fans – and crucially potential customers – can now buy with a little more confidence, knowing that another streaming service has joined the seemingly growing group of streaming sites to offer HDR10+ streaming.
Whether other streaming services will offer HDR10+ support (looking at you, Netflix and Max) remains to be seen, but until then, Samsung lovers now have one more service they can watch on the best Samsung TVs in optimal quality.
