Dolby Vision™ – even better HDR

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Dolby Vision has been available on selected* BRAVIA OLED and LCD TVs since April 2018. From July 2018, you can enjoy Dolby Vision™ on selected Sony audio-visual products, including our 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™ Player UBP-X700. All you need is a simple firmware update: find out how to enable it here (or visit our Support site).

 

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What is Dolby Vision?

If you’ve been looking for a new TV (or you keep up with the latest technology), you’ll have heard about High Dynamic Range (HDR). This new signal standard gives pictures a wider range of colour and brightness, resulting in much greater realism. (Find out more about 4K HDR here.)

Dolby Vision is an advanced HDR format that offers a picture that’s better than ever. It’s a step-up from HDR10, an older HDR standard supported by many HDR TVs and playback devices.

How does it work?

Dolby Vision provides metadata (digital instructions about how to display the image) to the device. It includes both metadata from the HDR source and information from the device about its own capabilities.

HDR10 metadata offers a broader, more basic overview of how content should display. Dolby Vision is much more detailed, optimising based on playback device. It also gets specific – with data for particular scenes or shots, rather than a ‘standard setting’ that applies to an entire film.

 

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Sony’s UBP-X700

Launched at the start of 2018, our UBP-X700 Blu-ray™ Player puts top-quality pictures within reach. It promises to deliver the ultimate 4K experience, with better contrast, detail and natural colour.

UBP-X700 supports Dolby Vision after the firmware update. It also gives you access to 4K streaming services – including Dolby Vision HDR streaming from Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

There are other benefits to updating your home entertainment system with this model. It features conversion technology that scales HDR pictures to conventional display, so you enjoy amazing quality even if you don’t have an HDR TV.

If you’re a music lover, it can also handle a whole range of music formats (from AAC and 11.2MHz DSD to CD and DVD).

Want to know more? Check out UBP-X700!

Notes:
Dolby Vision available on A1, ZD9, XE94 and XE93 from April 2018. Available on AF8 and XF90 from June 2018.

[Philbz]

This update should have been made available for the X800.

[karingall]

The x800 needs this update for Dolby Vision it is a better player than the x700 which I also have, I suppose that Sony will bring out a up graded X800 and call it x900 just to rip us off again

[Philbz]

Yeah, really not happy about that. 

[jimathome]

Why does the X700 get the dolby vision update while the X800 a much more expensive model doesn't ? sureley Sony must have known people would want it !

[karingall]

they say that not enough memory to upgrade the x800 cant belive that being the case as we are still getting upgrades to the x800 can some one prove this by numbers??, still think we will have to buy the new one when it comes out if we want the better player shame on you Sony