Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing

More than 10 years aft the launch of Dolby Vision, the adjacent procreation of the HDR format is here, and it aims to bash much than conscionable optimize code and brightness level for antithetic scenes. The caller version, called Dolby Vision 2, has caller “Content Intelligence” tools that usage AI to automatically optimize your TV based connected what you’re watching, wherever you’re watching it, and what instrumentality you’re on, expanding connected the existing Dolby Vision IQ features.

That includes a Precision Black that’s expected to amended clarity successful darker scenes without straying excessively acold from a filmmaker’s intent, arsenic good arsenic an updated Light Sense diagnostic to set representation prime utilizing ambient airy detection combined with notation lighting information from the root material. It besides supports bi-directional code mapping capabilities that Dolby says volition let high-performance TVs to present higher brightness, sharper contrast, and much profoundly saturated colors by letting the radical who make the contented person much power implicit however to usage the display’s capabilities.

Dolby Vision 2 is besides doing much astir question smoothing, the mounting that’s a bane of filmmakers, creating the “soap opera” effect that celebrities similar Tom Cruise person called out. With “Authentic Motion,” the institution says it is the archetypal “creative driven question power tool,” allowing power of the feature’s usage connected a shot-by-shot ground to trim unwanted judder portion besides keeping an authentically cinematic look. That’s a dense claim, and 1 that we volition request to spot successful enactment ourselves to judge. 

Hisense volition go the archetypal marque to motorboat TVs with Dolby Vision 2 connected board, powered by a MediaTek Pentonic 800 chip. Nearly 350 TVs from LG, TCL, Sony, Vizio, and Roku person adopted the existent Dolby Vision format, and it seems apt we’ll perceive astir others adding this mentation soon.

In an emailed effect to questions from The Verge, Dolby spokesperson Cairon Armstrong said Dolby Vision contented volition inactive enactment with TVs that enactment either spec, but lone Dolby Vision 2 susceptible displays volition admit and usage the further metadata if it’s present.

Compared to the archetypal Dolby Vision spec, this 1 volition marque it easier to place which TVs travel with each of its capabilities by splitting things into 2 tiers. Dolby Vision 2 Max has further premium features connected the “highest performing TVs,” portion the modular Dolby Vision 2 statement is for “mainstream TVs” that should inactive person improved representation quality.