I never said or meant Dolby was going out of business, I meant TV manufacturers (who create TV sets in a race to the bottom on manufacturing costs and selling price) will cut corners, wherever they can, like not having to shell out money for old technology (like when Dolby Vision is old news in some not soon future) or having to adhere to any of Dolby's tests/certs (on the manufacturer's dime) when licensing Dolby Vision, because that eats into their bottom line - even if just a cost of pennies per set.skull88 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 9:23 pmThat is likely far too pessimistic. Dolby has been around for nearly 60 years now and recently movie theatres began supporting Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision in select venues. Companies still make and sell DVDs, players and many audio components that support their audio/vidoe codecs (DVDs launched in mid 1990's and Dolby audio has been around forever too), and incredibly, some TV manufacturers actually brought back RCA inputs on the back of their displays in recent years and that's a 40+ year old standard! I wouldn't worry too much about that, plenty of other stuff to worry about in the world ahead of HDR colour standards/tech disappearing! Cheers.staknhalo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 8:28 pmRight but that's what got me thinking - who's gonna pay to license Dolby Vision in the future when it's old tech, for backwards compatibility? Can't see people (comapnies) willing to do that either. Only thing that makes me think we'll (maybe) only have HDR10 and/or HDR10+ for back compat in the future TVs.
But, we still have to see what replaces Dolby Vision in next gen tech/TV sets - besides being something else entirely not from Dolby, it could also be a 'Dolby Vision 2' where 'Dolby Vision 1' is merely a subset of 2 - like how DLSS is with Nvidia currently.
Like I said it's still a real concern IMO and something to keep in mind - just have to keep an eye out on what will be coming down the pipe. Luckily as Reset mentioned it's still a way off with no replacement really taking shape as of now - but to my point look at the mess and headache ATSC 3.0 ecosystem is shaping up to be. I'd rather get ahead of any of that with my rips is all
Edit: But really the main main point of this thought exercise (lol) is "should I be getting legit HDR10+ metadata for all titles like I am Dolby Vision, in case HDR10+ is the dynamic metadata format we're left with in the future (because it's free IIRC for manufacturers) ", doesn't hurt to be prepared is all I'm thinking.