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.

Current content services stream using 10 bit video codecs. HDR10+ has no intrinsic technical limitation to bit depth and may be 10 bits or more.

For the latest list of UHD Blu-Ray discs that support HDR10+, please see the following website.

HDR10+ supports a peak brightness up to 10,000 nits.

No. HDR10+ does not charge a per device royalty fee to support the technology.

HDR10+ devices are tested and certified for quality and compatibility. Please see the list of certified products to see if yours are HDR10+ certified.

There is a growing number of devices and content that supports HDR10+. Please see the list of certified products and services.

Because HDR10+ is backwards compatible with HDR10, when HDR10+ content is viewed on an HDR10 display, it is simply just HDR10 content.

Yes, HDR10+ is completely backwards compatible with HDR10. An HDR10 only device that receives and HDR10+ signal will play without issues in HDR10.