Netflix: Netflix remembers HDR10+ exists

Samsung telly owners rejoice After spending the better part of a decade resting on its laurels, Netflix has finally graced us with HDR10+ support-eight years after the technology was introduced in 2017. Apparently, the streaming giant needed that long to realise that not everyone lives in a Dolby Vision utopia. Job's Mob has long flirted with Dolby Vision, offering the posh HDR format as the gold standard for picture quality. However, if you own a Samsung TV-those rather popular slabs of screen made by the company that co-invented HDR10+-Netflix's love affair with Dolby has meant your TV's premium picture processing was about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Unlike its dimmer cousin HDR10, which treats your entire show like one long scene from a BBC period drama, HDR10+ adjusts visuals scene by scene and sometimes even frame by frame. It might have taken this long because Amazon was the co-parent of HDR10+ and Netflix didn't want to play nice. Either way, Samsung owners have been left to suffer the indignity of sub-par HDR while their panels twiddled their digital thumbs. To enjoy this belated bounty, you'll need a Netflix Premium subscription-the top-tier version of the service, which costs more than a decent night out: £18.99 in the UK, $24.99 in the US, and A$25.99 in the land of drop bears.