HDR10+ is the most advanced HDR technology bringing the highest quality movies, TV
episodes and games to the widest range of devices.
With HDR10+ you get a more vibrant and lifelike viewing experience, as it enhances the
dynamic range and color accuracy of your content, delivering stunning visuals with greater
detail and depth.
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Entertainment
Feel the difference with HDR10+ on your favorite movies and episodes on all available screens.
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Take advantage of the HDR10+ technology and relevant IPs owned by Founders, royalty-free.
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Source provider (including, Ultra HD Blu-ray Player Manufacturer, AV receiver and soundbar manufacturer, set-top box manufacturer, Game Console manufacturer, GPU/CPU manufacturer or service)
License Materials:
Technical Specifications
Test Specifications
Certification Mark
HDR10+ Certification Mark Usage Guideline
Essential Patent Claims
Certification Requirement:
Self test per requirement described in test specification.
Annual Administration:
$2,500
Display Manufacturer
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Display Manufacturer (TV/monitor, projector, mobile phone manufacturer; laptop PC; and non-standard interface systems: e.g. inflight entertainment system, hotel cable system)
License Materials:
Technical Specifications
Test Specifications
Certification Mark
HDR10+ Certification Mark Usage Guideline
Essential Patent Claims
Certification Requirement:
Certification by ATC (Authorized Test Center)
Annual Administration:
$10,000
SoC
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SoC (non-GPU/CPU) vendor
License Materials:
Technical Specifications
Test Specifications
Patent Stand Still
Certification Requirement:
N/A
Annual Administration:
$4,000
Content Company or OS
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Content company, Operating System (OS) Company (e.g. media or game publisher, producer, game developer)
License Materials:
Technical Specifications
Test Specifications
Certification Mark
HDR10+ Certification Mark Usage Guideline
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N/A
Annual Administration:
N/A
Tool Vendor
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Tool vendor (e.g. processing tool, encoder, game engine)
License Materials:
Technical Specifications
Test Specifications
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HDR10+ Certification Mark Usage Guideline
Essential Patent Claims
Certification Requirement:
Self test per requirement described in test specification.
Annual Administration:
N/A
FEATURED PRODUCTS
Lunis OLED TV
LS12000B Laser Projector
OPPO Find X7 Series
Roku Plus Series TV
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HDR10+ FAQs
Local tone mapping allows brightness and contrast adjustments on a zone-by-zone basis within a frame, preserving highlights (like sunlight) and without crushing shadows (like dark interiors).
HDR10+ ADVANCED adds six key enhancements: extended brightness support (at up to 10,000 nits), intelligent motion smoothing (Intelligent FRC), local tone mapping, genre-based optimization, advanced color control, and adaptive cloud gaming with ambient light adjustments.
HDR10+ GAMING optimizes HDR display settings dynamically for video games, enhancing overall visibility and more immersive game playing. HDR10+ ADAPTIVE adjusts content based on ambient lighting conditions, ensuring optimal contrast and detail in both dark rooms and bright environments for a consistent viewing experience.
As of 2026, HDR10+ is supported by over 180 licensees and more than 22,000 certified devices, including most major television brands. It’s also featured in mobile phones, UHD Blu-ray players and a variety of streaming services, and has been adopted in industries ranging from automotive infotainment to in-flight entertainment.
HDR allows creators to use light and shadow more expressively, to better engage the viewer’s attention. With dynamic range that mirrors real-life scenes, directors and cinematographers can craft visuals that are more immersive and emotionally impactful. HDR10+ ensures that these creative decisions can be seen on the widest variety of displays even if the mastering display was of higher quality than what may be in any one particular home!
HDR10+ metadata can be generated during post-production mastering, live productions, or transcoding for distribution on formats like UHD Blu-ray, OTT streaming, and broadcast television, using tools and encoders that are available for both professional and mobile workflows. Since HDR10+ metadata creation is automatic, it is extremely cost-effective to simply generate at encode time, and there is no need to pre-compute, store, or archive the data.
Yes, HDR10+ is fully backward compatible with HDR10, the base HDR format.
Although devices that only support HDR10 can play HDR10+ content, they can only use the static metadata portion without any dynamic enhancements. It is effortless for HDR services to adopt HDR10+ as existing HDR10+ content does not need to be reencoded. HDR10+ metadata can simply be calculated and injected into existing compressed streams without going back to source or mezzanine content!
HDR10+ uses dynamic metadata to deliver scene-by-scene or frame-by-frame instructions for brightness, contrast, and color. This allows the display to optimize tone mapping in real time, preserving the detail in both shadows and highlights. HDR10+ Live encoding (e.g. for sports) always uses frame-by-frame data while VOD content uses scene-based data of which many scenes may be a single frame or a short sequence.
HDR10 uses static metadata, meaning a single tone mapping curve is applied to the entire video program. This “one-size-fits-all” approach is unable to adapt to variations in scene brightness—such as a dark night followed by a bright explosion—leading to crushed shadows or blown-out highlights on many displays.
While 4K resolution and higher frame rates improve detail and motion smoothness, HDR fundamentally enhances the realism of an image by expanding the range between the darkest blacks and brightest whites in a scene (what cinematographers call “grayscale”. ) This allows viewers to see subtle gradations in “shadows” and “highlights” that mimic natural human vision, making HDR a key factor for better picture quality. This has been recognized by movie studios, OTT streaming services, broadcasting networks, and professionals.
No. The specifications for both HDR10+ and HDR10+ ADVANCED support a maximum peak brightness of up to 10,000 nits. However few current high-end displays are capable of achieving 5,000 nits or more.
The base HDR10+ standard is also frame or scene based, fully scalable and can reproduce the full BT.2100 PQ curve, ensuring compatibility with even brighter displays in the future.
Learn how HDR10+ is changing the way we see shows on our TVs at home and at work. Whether its in your living room or at the outdoor kitchen, seeing is believing.
HDR10+ ADVANCED White Paper
Feb 6, 2026
This paper introduces the new capabilities of HDR10+ ADVANCED.
Bill Mandel and Makoto Morise detail how HDR10+ benefits Live Sports Content
Sep 19, 2024
Bill Mandel and Makoto Morise sit down with Jason Dachman of the Sports Video Group to talk about how HDR10+ dynamic metadata is currently supported and benefits Live Sports broadcasts in HDR.
HDR10+ Technologies LLCannounces the availability of exciting new HDR10+ GAMING titles from some of the top developers in the game industry. The announcement is the latest in a series of HDR10+ related developments that have occurred over the past year.
The HDR10+ GAMING plug-in is available to Unreal Engine users free-of-charge and insures more seamless implementation and greater visual accuracy, from the game engine to the display.
