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Samsung gains support for 8K HDR10+ content with three OTT providers

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  • Samsung gains support for 8K HDR10+ content with three OTT providers

    Italian over-the-top video service CHILI, Russia's MEGOGO, and travel channel content provider The Explorers will adopt 8K HDR10+ along with its support for 4K HDR10+. HDR 10+ being Samsung's dynamic metadata High Dynamic range format. The feature is available on all UHD TV and 2019 8K TV models, including Samsung’s lineup of QLED TVs. So say good bye to your 98" Q900R 8K TV?

    “Our main goal in this partnership with Samsung is to offer the highest-quality content services available to our customers,” said Victor Chekanov, CEO at MEGOGO. “We will maintain our initiative in the Russian OTT service market and plan to provide dozens of HDR10+ movies to Samsung Smart TV users starting late this summer.”

    HDR10+ in HD and 4K will also become available from other service providers, Samsung says it has already signed up Rakuten TV, Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV and Videociety. They are all expected to adopt HDR10+ support for its respective VOD services between Q4 2019 and Q1 2020. Molotov, the first French OTT streaming service to offer live and on-demand TV channels all in one place, is also considering to adopt HDR10+.

    “We will continue to strengthen our industry leadership through establishing partnerships with top streaming service providers and equipping our televisions with the technology needed to support the world’s first 8K HDR10+”, said Hyogun Lee, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics.
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