Netflix: Entire HDR Catalogue To Be Available in HDR10+ By End Of Year

[Jon Pais]

From Netflix Tech Blog:

We are excited to announce that we are now streaming HDR10+ content on our service for AV1-enabled devices, enhancing the viewing experience for certified HDR10+ devices, which previously only received HDR10 content.

To enhance our offering, we have been adding HDR10+ streams to both new releases and existing popular HDR titles. AV1-HDR10+ now accounts for 50% of all eligible viewing hours. We will continue expanding our HDR10+ offerings with the goal of providing an HDR10+ experience for all HDR titles by the end of this year.

At the time of launch, these requirements must be satisfied to receive HDR10+:

1. Member must have a Netflix Premium plan subscription

2. Title must be available in HDR10+ format

3. Member device must support AV1 & HDR10+. Here are some examples of compatible devices:

• SmartTVs, mobile phones, and tablets that meet Netflix certification for HDR10
• Source device (such as set-top boxes, streaming devices, MVPDs, etc.) that meets Netflix certification for HDR10+, connected to an HDR10+ compliant display via HDMI

While we have enabled HDR10+ for distribution i.e., for what our members consume on their devices, we continue to accept only Dolby Vision masters on the ingest side, i.e., for all content delivery to Netflix as per our delivery specification. In addition to HDR10+, we continue to serve HDR10 and DolbyVision. Our encoding pipeline is designed with flexibility and extensibility where all these HDR formats could be derived from a single DolbyVision deliverable efficiently at scale.