Dolby HDR Video
You’ve heard the Dolby difference—now see it. Dolby brings back black with our high-dynamic-range (HDR) video technologies. Imagine watching a TV display with a picture so detailed and clear that you’ll feel like you’re looking through a window. That’s the Dolby® HDR video experience.
Dolby HDR video delivers as big an improvement over HDTV as HDTV is over standard TV.
Today’s high-definition TV sets offer exceptional resolution. Yet, you always know you’re looking at a picture. This is because the human eye can perceive a dynamic brightness range far broader than what LCD TVs can currently produce.
Dolby Contrast, Dolby’s HDR video technology, offers:
- Five times the contrast ratio of LCD TVs. Contrast is the difference in color and brightness between objects within an image. With Dolby HDR video, you get true blacks, whiter whites, and more visible shadow detail. Images viewed on TVs with Dolby HDR video radiate.
- Better energy efficiency, which means a lower operating cost compared to LCD TVs. Dolby’s high-dynamic-range video uses many LED lights rather than the one fluorescent light that is always on used in conventional LCD TVs. While the one light in an LCD TV is always on, for Dolby HDR video, only those lights needed to create the best possible picture quality at any given moment will be on.
Dolby HDR Video Compared to HDTV
Dolby HDR video uses the same resolution display screens as HDTV. However, the contrast improvement from Dolby’s advanced backlighting technology lets you actually see far greater detail.
How to Get Dolby HDR Video
We’re working with manufacturers now to bring Dolby® HDR video with Dolby Contrast to consumers. Dolby offers two HDR video display technologies: Dolby Vision and Dolby Contrast.
Dolby does not plan to manufacture televisions or video displays. Dolby Contrast will be incorporated into LCD flat-panel HDTVs and video displays manufactured by others—just like our audio technologies are now.
Dolby Contrast is plug and play. All you do is turn on the TV. It will work with all the existing content—TV shows and videos—that you’re already enjoying.
Learn more about the technology behind Dolby HDR Video.
Listen: Dolby HDR video on Dolby's podcast, Dolbycast. (24 minutes)
Watch a demonstration of Dolby HDR video’s capabilities. (9.5 minutes)
