Last Friday, the long-awaited Prime Video series ‘Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’ took place, based on JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth universe. The success quickly became the best Prime Video series premiere of all time.

So far, fans have been able to enjoy the first two episodes and in stunning 4K UHD. In addition, the series has an unusual factor in Prime Video: It is compatible with Dolby Vision, an HDR format that is used very limitedly on this platform, and prefers HDR10 + as a method to reproduce content with high dynamics. December. with metadata.

Dolby Vision is back on Prime Video and several series have already been updated

Prime Video recently released the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 4K and HDR to prepare viewers for the premiere, but in this case it lacks Dolby Vision. Again, They wanted to reveal everything with this new series from Amazonbecause their new banner as a formula to attract more users to the platform.

The platform was the first to adopt HDR10 in 2015 and has always positioned itself as: one of the oldest services to support high dynamic range reproduction of content. After the standardization of Dolby Vision, there were multiple platforms supporting this format including Prime Video, but after the arrival of HDR10+, Amazon joined Samsung to introduce this new royalty-free format and it has been the standard since 2017. preferred by the platform.

However, we have seen recently Original series produced by Amazon make the leap to Dolby Vision. In addition to ‘Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’, TV series such as ‘Jack Ryan’ or ‘Wheel of Time’ have also started to support Dolby Vision.

At Xataka Smart Home, we talked a few times about the advantages of Dolby Vision compared to other HDR formats. Although Dolby owns it and therefore pays for manufacturers and companies that want to add support for this format, offers a higher quality than others This can only be achieved with HDR10+, although the Dolby format is generally more common in content.

In addition, Supports Dolby Vision, 12-bit depth and maximum brightness up to 10,000 nits, the most complete HDR format to date. Its update Dolby Vision IQ also takes into account the brightness of the environment to adapt the content, like HDR10 + Adaptive, although this format has less compatibility with televisions.

Besides compatibility with Dolby Vision, the aforementioned series also supports Dolby Atmos, an ideal tandem if that’s what you want. Enjoy content with excellent picture and sound quality.

We hope this edition from Dolby Vision marks the beginning of greater support for this format by Amazon and users can enjoy HDR on Prime Video with dynamic metadata and height outside of HDR10+.