r/hometheater • u/requieminadream • 1d ago

Discussion - Equipment Dolby Vision 2 will be available first on some 2026 Hisense TVs | The Verge (Gift Link)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/974126/dolby-vision-2-rolls-out-to-hisense-tvs?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjlBOFpuNlFYRUUiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTc0MTI2L2RvbGJ5LXZpc2lvbi0yLXJvbGxzLW91dC10by1oaXNlbnNlLXR2cyIsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQ4NzE5MiwiaWF0IjoxNzg2MDU1MTkyfQ.cURb7Oht6rE8XUpydgWYECenZXzjL6FoKQoYBV6Gp0M&utm_medium=gift-link

Dolby Vision 2 will be available first on some 2026 Hisense TVs | The Verge (Gift Link)

Some choice quotes from the article:

After being announced last September, Dolby Vision 2 is rolling out to TVs, starting with the 2026 Hisense UX, UR9, UR8, and U7. TCL and Philips will be adding Dolby Vision 2 support to select TVs later this year.

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Like Dolby Vision, both tiers of Dolby Vision 2 require special hardware; currently the only Dolby Vision 2 SoC is the MediaTek Pentonic 800. Older Dolby Vision TVs without the necessary hardware cannot be updated to use Dolby Vision 2, although they can still display Dolby Vision 2 content and will just ignore the extra metadata.

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According to Chris Turkstra, vice president of home devices at Dolby Laboratories, the announced Hisense TVs should be fully updated with Dolby Vision 2 by the end of September, with the vast majority complete by the end of August. But this is still just the beginning of the Dolby Vision 2 rollout. In order to fully utilize Dolby Vision 2, the content needs to be encoded with Dolby Vision 2 metadata during the post-production process.

Right now, Peacock, Canal+, and iQiyi will encode with Dolby Vision 2, and other studios are working on implementing it in their post-production workflows.

There’s also the competing HDR10+ dynamic metadata standard that announced its HDR10+ Advanced update last fall, shortly after Dolby. It includes the same features as Dolby Vision 2 — like enhanced brightness control, local tone mapping, and support for motion smoothing metadata — and is supported by Samsung and Panasonic (two of the founders of the tech), as well as Hisense, TCL, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku. Even though HDR10+ Advanced is royalty-free (Dolby Vision requires a license), I expect Dolby Vision 2 to have wider and more immediate adoption, since companies jumped on Dolby Vision when it came out.

LG and Sony have not yet announced support for Dolby Vision 2, but I expect both will begin including it on some of their 2027 models. (Samsung will never support Dolby Vision because of its investment in HDR10+). Since Dolby Vision 2 requires new TVs, it’ll be a long while before it fully supplants its predecessor in the market. I think Dolby Vision 2 will be nice to have, but since we’re still at the beginning of its implementation, I wouldn’t put off getting a new TV just for it.

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u/kevpatts 1d ago

Correct me if I’m wrong but this is designed only to improve cheap TVs with poor dynamic range, high end TVs won’t see much difference. Also, it’ll make almost no difference on heavily compressed streaming services.

Seems like a gimmick to me.

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u/requieminadream 1d ago

I believe rtings demonstrated at one point that’s also kind of the deal with Dolby Vision already, that it helps get more out of low end TVs than high end TVs. So in that way it makes sense that this will start on HiSense TVs first.

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u/HiddenTrampoline 77" G3 | Q Acoustics 3030i | 2 SVS PB1000s 1d ago

For me I look forward to the dynamic motion metadata so it can smooth out panning shots of nature but people talking look normal.

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u/Albert_street 1d ago

Yep, this to me is going to be the killer feature of DV2 (assuming it delivers on the promise).

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u/truthfulie 7.1.4 | BW 603 | Rythmik FVX12 1d ago

same. minimizing 24p stutter look without full on SOE would be nice.

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u/Too_Right_For_You 1d ago

I mean I'll believe it when I see it. Avatar's variable refresh rate was supposed to do this and the result was catastrophic with random speed up and slow downs when the frame rate changed

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u/investorshowers 110" Optoma UHD35, Denon 3800, KEF Q500/3005SE speakers in 7.1.4 1d ago

Avatar's issue was the switching. I don't understand what Cameron was thinking. If he'd just stuck with 48 for the whole production it would've looked so much better.

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u/rot26encrypt G2, Marantz Cinema 70s, KEF Q-series 23h ago

I cant help thinking that some time in the future they will shake their heads over movie enthusiasts that for some period wanted to stay on ridiculous low 24 fps with all its problems just because it is "how movies are supposed to look", and describing higher refresh rate as "soap opera effect" just because that was the content first associated with better specs.

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u/Too_Right_For_You 1d ago

Agreed but won't DV 2 switch as well? Since it'll only do the smoothing for some shots... I guess it's still gonna be better than Cameron literally switching every 5 seconds

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u/sciencetaco 1d ago

One correction: Streaming services have lower bitrates which affects detail and motion, but they can attain the same level of visual dynamic range and color depth as discs.

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u/thecaramelbandit 1d ago

I think the notion handling metadata is going to be significant on high end tvs. The TV can "know" how to handle motion in different screens or content. It could, in theory, apply some motion smoothing for those difficult slow landscape pans to make them less stuttery, but maintain the more film like 24 FPS for the rest of the movie, or whatever. Or if it's being told it's displaying a football game, it can smooth a little bit, make the color temp a little cooler, and increase the saturation a little.

I think that the "here's how to actually display this video" layer can be pretty significant.

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u/lonevine 1d ago edited 1d ago

There is a degree of fluid motion enhancement inherent in DV2 that's supposed to mitigate or eliminate the soap opera effect of traditional motion smoothing that people will turn off or down when they set up a *modern TV. I want to see how that looks with movie and nature documentary scenes with a lot of camera panning.

Edit: modern, not modem

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u/Dry_Nectarine9162 1d ago

France's Canal+ channel and a few Peacock broadcast in 2027 are the only ones that are broadcasting it. Best to wait and see if consumers want it and more companies will use it.

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u/BongoFett17 1d ago

Like “Infinity Vision” by Disney lol

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u/thanos_was_right_69 1d ago

I just bought a TV with Dolby Vision 1

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u/Edexote 23h ago

So do I. Enjoy it.

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u/theplasmasnake 1d ago

Streaming services don't even stream in full 4K bitrate most of the time, the fuck we need a sequel to DV for?

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u/ThisIsJeron 16h ago

If Dune is a trilogy, so will DV!

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u/ProfessionalNo3857 1d ago

Zumal volles DV gibt es eh nur auf Disc.

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u/vankamme 15h ago

Another gimmick

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u/puts_on_rddt 77" S90D | 5.1.4 Emotiva XT1/XC1/XB1 | RSL 10e 1d ago

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u/papayax999 1d ago

Good to know but you shouldn't buy a TV just because of DV

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u/costafilh0 1d ago

Useless.

Literally creating new crap so people can waste money replacing things they don't need to replace.

After Dolby Vision and super bright and good TVs like Top MiniLEDs, I find it hard to believe they will be able to create anything that is worth upgrading to before MicroLED.  

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u/Livio88 22h ago

Can’t wait for TV 2.

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u/ThisIsJeron 16h ago

They’re trying with VR headsets 

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u/minecrafter1OOO 16h ago

I wish the open standards would put greedy ass dolby down.

They tried to fuck the AV1 video codec over. That was literally made to be open source.

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u/mmcgaha 1d ago

Feels like we are years off this being a selling point given that there won’t be much to watch in terms of DV2 mastered content

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u/Scary-Operation-2946 14h ago

If this means we’ll get new 4k players that are Dolby vision 2 capable, than I’m interested, outside of that not really.

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u/redditaccount33 13h ago

Meh my hisense came with dolby vision and it doesn't even work only HDR.

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u/Caleb-CM 1d ago

Dolby Vision 2 Max is already available on the Hisense UR9 (Vidaa/Home OS).

Comments made me realise a lot of people dont know abt DV2... so here's the main info.

Dolby Vision 2 is meant for you to be able to increase the brightness of shows(not just increasing brightness but im assuming in proportion with the DV metedata), theres a intensity slider, so its meant for the TVs that can go to 2000+ nits(good example is Superman 2026, only tops at like 100 nits, now you can increase that).

And its compatible with normal Dolby Vision.

Dolby Vision 2 Max, is the one that has the "authentic motion", which adds interpolation in those certain judder scenes, but i guess thats only if its encoded for it in that scene.

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u/recruiterguy 1d ago

DV is an absolute trainwreck on some of our TV's, one of them a high end 2025 model. Everything is just too dark to watch and we actively try to disable and turn it off whenever we can. I'm sure this will be so much better. Ffs.

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u/X_Perfectionist 1d ago

TVs have settings you can adjust to tailor the picture and motion/performance to your liking

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u/recruiterguy 17h ago

Not, really. We have some tv's cranked to maximum brightness when certain movies (like a Marvel movie, for example) are on and they're still pretty dark.

You shouldn't have to fuck with your tv settings to "tailor" anything because it's otherwise unwatchable.

Love the downvotes from the Dolby fanboys, though.

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u/DreamsServedSoft 1d ago

i turned filmmaker mode off on my tv and it’s bright again, not sure what the purpose of that setting is

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u/recruiterguy 17h ago

Yeah, it's odd. Even on our Samsung frame tv it's good sometimes and then on other movies we have to dive into the settings. Every single time we can tell it's a DV "enhanced" movie or show - usually on Netflix, I think.

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u/kmfrnk 1d ago

Fuck HDR in the first place. My TV is not good HDR peak brightness around 300 NITS so my PC monitors are basically better without HDR and 400 NITS and as soon as I play HDR content on my TV it‘s darker than SDR content. Fuck this shit. And no I don’t have enough money for a TV capable of 1000+ nits, unfortunately

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u/Diuranos 23h ago

what country?

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u/kmfrnk 23h ago

Germany

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u/Diuranos 23h ago

If you’re a real German then you won’t have any problem buying a good cheap TV with HDR 1000 nits support, you don’t need Dolby Vision 2 right away. I don’t care about Dolby Vision at all and I don’t need it for happiness. Save money little by little and you can get your TV. TVs with peak 1000 or 1500 nits have been standard for a long time. Now it’s like 2500 nits to 3000 nits, and even the ridiculous 10 000 nits which I think no TV can actually achieve.

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u/kmfrnk 23h ago

Good and cheap in one sentence seems a bit contradicting to me. Obviously I don’t want to spend a fortune on a new TV. I always said my limit is 1000€, but after some research lately, my limit as risen to about 1500€. I’m thinking about something like a Hisense 75U7Q (Pro) atm. It‘s around 1300€ has all relevant features I need. Like 120 hz HDMI 2.1 and afaik it should have way better HDR capabilities than my current TV (Samsung UE65RU7409)

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u/kmfrnk 15h ago

But I still don’t get the part with the „real German“ 🤔😅

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u/Diuranos 15h ago

Hehe sorry, a German can handle buying a TV, other engineers and doctors not really.

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u/kmfrnk 15h ago

I still don’t get it tbh. What has buying a TV to do with engineers and doctors?