Summary: What is Dolby Vision and what is HDR10? What’s the difference between them? Here, we will give you a detailed introduction and recommend some tools for creating Dolby Vision/HDR10 content.
In 10 years, the television world has changed dramatically. From CRT to LCD, then LED. Now, there is competition in video quality, with HD, Full HD and 4K TVs taking hold, and now HDR is joining the fray. The old stuff is now called “SDR”, or Standard Dynamic Range. While there are other entrants such as Technicolor HDR and HLG, their adoption rates are low right now, so we will set them aside for this article and only discuss Dolby Vision vs. HDR10.
Let's start with the basics of HDR10 and Dolby Vision:
- HDR is an open source development, so HDR10 is freely available to manufacturers. On the other hand, Dolby Vision is a proprietary software for which manufacturers have to pay, which also increases the cost for customers. So TVs with Dolby Vision and HDR10 cost more.
- The main technical difference between HRD10 and Dolby Vision is that HDR10 contains static metadata, while Dolby Vision provides a continuous stream of metadata to your TV. What this metadata does is provides instructions to your TV about how to render the screen. Since HDR10 only provides this data once at the beginning, the indications have to be averaged, which affects the entire video, whether it is a daytime scene or a nighttime scene. In the case of Dolby Vision, this metadata can even be frame by frame, making each scene the best your TV can offer.
- Dolby Vision supports 12-bit color, while HDR10 supports 10-bit color. However, few TVs currently support 12-bit color, and Dolby claims they downscale it to 10-bit to support current screens.
- HDR10 is capable of displaying 1,000 nits of content, while Dolby Vision is theoretically capable of displaying 10,000 nits of content, but currently only has a peak brightness target of 4,000 nits.
- HDR10 and Dolby Vision are not backward compatible. This means your HDR content won’t automatically play on devices you made to play SDR content. So if you subscribe to some HDR-quality live streaming content and may be playing it on a device that doesn’t support it, be sure to ask your provider if it supports switching between HDR and SDR types, or if your hardware can convert HDR to SDR.
- Speaking of some similarities, both formats require a TV with 4K (3,840 x 2,160) resolution, a monitor capable of about 90% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and a TV panel with a screen capable of handling 10-bit color formats.
Those looking to buy a TV with high-end video quality need to decide what type of HDR they want. While some TVs come with both HDR10 and Dolby Vision, you can also save money by opting for a TV with just one or the other. Also, most TVs that support Dolby Vision will usually support HDR10.
Yuhan UHD Creator
Very easy to author UHD with any popular video format and popular picture format,It not only supports 10bit HEVC encoding, but also supports HDR10 encoding. It can support Dolby Vison through Passthrough mode, support hardware acceleration, support 10 preset menus and Customize menu.
With the increasing popularity of 4K UHD content and players, the next generation of 4K UHD Blu-ray movies has also seen great growth. It’s a good idea to create copies of these movies on compatible drives. Then we recommend Yuhan UHD Creator to you, which is the best UHD authoring tool that can preserve the HDR10/ Dolby Vision quality of the original 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. Yuhan UHD Creator allows you to copy 4K content of main movie titles or entire discs, and then save them as 1:1 lossless or compressed ISO files. With its advanced compression technology, you can save an entire 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray quality movie in a blank BD-50/25 disc, and most importantly, it will still retain the quality of 2160p video.
Leave A Comment
You must be <a href="https://www.yuhanmedia.net/security365/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yuhanmedia.net%2Fdolby-vision-and-hdr10%2F">logged in</a> to post a comment.