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Sep 23, 2026

A persistent misconception about HDR10+ is that its metadata is somehow secondary: generated only for select titles, produced by hand after the fact, or even translated from another format’s data once content is already finished. None of that reflects how the format actually works, and the real mechanism is worth walking through, because it’s also the reason HDR10+ scales as easily as it does.

Aug 27, 2026

A new Arabian fantasy epic revealed at Gamescom 2026 is shipping with a promise that's become familiar across the HDR10+ GAMING library: players won't have to touch a single HDR setting to see the game the way its developers intended.

Jul 28, 2026

HDR content is mastered against a reference — often up to 10,000 nits of peak brightness under the PQ transfer function HDR10+ uses.

Jul 28, 2026

Every piece of HDR content carries more than just picture and sound — it also carries metadata: technical instructions that tell a display how to interpret the brightness and color information it’s receiving.

Jul 28, 2026

Inflight entertainment screens are an unusual home for a display technology built around deep blacks and bright highlights — small screens, mounted a couple feet from your face, on an aircraft that’s constantly changing cabin lighting.

Jul 28, 2026

Every HDR movie or show is graded in a mastering suite with carefully controlled, very low ambient light — the way a colorist can be certain that what they see on the reference monitor is exactly what the content will look like.

Jul 28, 2026

HDR10, HDR10+, and HDR10+ ADVANCED aren’t three competing formats — they’re three generations of the same open standard, each one backward compatible with everything before it.

Jul 28, 2026

Ask most people what makes HDR look better than standard video, and they’ll say “it’s brighter.” That’s true, but it’s only half the picture — literally.

Jul 28, 2026

Two displays can both claim excellent color gamut coverage and still look completely different in HDR — one holding rich, saturated color into its brightest highlights, the other washing out to pale, faded color at exactly the moment a scene gets most intense.

Jul 28, 2026

4K and 8K get most of the marketing attention, but resolution only controls how much detail a picture can show — not how vivid or realistic its colors look.

Jul 28, 2026

You’ve probably seen it without knowing what to call it: a sunset, a foggy hallway, or a plain gray wall that should look like a smooth gradient instead shows up as a series of visible stripes or rings, like a topographic map.

Jul 28, 2026

“HDR10+ is capped at 10-bit color” is one of the most repeated claims about the format online — and it’s wrong.

Jul 28, 2026

A living room can get dim for movie night. A car cabin can't — it swings from tunnel darkness to direct midday sun in seconds, sometimes while the vehicle is moving.

Jul 23, 2026

Every HDR format has to solve the same basic problem: real-world scenes contain a much wider range of brightness than any display can reproduce, so the source content has to be "mapped" down to what a given TV or monitor can actually show. Standard tone mapping in HDR10+ handles this at the level of the whole scene or frame — one curve, applied everywhere. Local Tone Mapping, introduced in HDR10+ ADVANCED, goes a step further by letting that curve vary within a single frame.

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.

Oct 5, 2023

HDR10+ Gaming panel discussion and learn what HDR10+ GAMING provides and how game developers can get benefit from.

Jan 5, 2022

HDR10+ Technologies LLC, an industry group with over 128 licensees and nearly 5,000 supported devices.

Oct 20, 2021

View the 2021 Sizzle Reel for HDR10+ and some of the newest content available to consumers.

Oct 20, 2021

Follow-up to our HDR webinar in June. In this webinar the HDR10+ Technologies LLC presents a closer look at the story behind the development of HDR10.

Jun 15, 2021

Check our 2021 featured webinar on understanding the HDR Landscape, a deeper dive into HDR10+ technologies.

Jun 8, 2021

In the digital age, the choice of consumer displays and projectors has never been better – and never more potentially confusing. Download PDF

Sep 4, 2019

Display devices are acquiring the ability to show an increased range of brights, darks, and colors leading to realism.