Subj : This one Dolby Vision 2 feature will transform the way we watch To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed Sep 17 2025 19:15:09 This one Dolby Vision 2 feature will transform the way we watch TV heres how Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:00:00 +0000 Description: Dolby recently announced Dolby Vision 2 for TVs, and one of the new format's most intriguing features is an end-to-end solution to improve motion resolution for movies. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Dolby timed its recent announcement of Dolby Vision 2 , a wide-ranging overhaul of the existing Dolby Vision HDR format, to coincide with the recent IFA 2025 show in Berlin. Not only did Dolby announce Dolby Vision 2 at IFA, but it also demonstrated key components of its new tech at the show. The improvements provided by Dolby Vision 2 promise to prevent HDR pictures from looking too dark a common complaint about the format and also improve TV ambient light detection so pictures can look good across a range of room lighting conditions (something the existing Dolby Vision IQ picture mode was designed to address, but that will be improved further). Dolby Vision 2 will come in two flavors: a basic version, and a Max version designed for higher-end TVs. This latter version will also include a feature called Authentic Motion, a creative driven motion control tool to make scenes feel more authentically cinematic without unwanted judder on a shot-by-shot basis, according to Dolby. My colleague Matt Bolton got a demo of Authentic Motion at IFA. Although I wasnt at the show, after reading through the details of Dolbys announcement, its the Dolby Vision 2 feature Im most interested in, mostly because it aims to fix a stubborn picture quality issue I see even on the best TVs : motion artifacts. TrueCut Motion redux? Avatar: The Way of Water was screened in a motion-graded high frame rate version in select theaters during its 2022 release (Image credit: 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.) The core idea behind Authentic Motion isnt new a company called Pixelworks had been demonstrating a similar process called TrueCut Motion at trade shows like CES for years. TrueCut Motion is a tool that directors and cinematographers can use to variably control frame rate in their productions on a scene-by-scene basis that's basically what Authentic Motion does, except TrueCut Motion does it with real extra frames, and Authentic Motion uses motion processing techniques. TrueCut Motion has already been used for several high-profile movies such as Avatar: The Way of Water and, most recently, The Wild Robot, both of which were presented in a motion graded high frame rate version at select theaters. The benefit to varying a movies frame rate is that it can reduce picture judder, a motion 'blurring' effect in high-action scenes, or ones with long camera pans. Such effects arent so much of a problem when watching movies in a typical theater, where the projected image is relatively dim. But it can be an issue in IMAX and Dolby Cinema theaters since these use powerful laser projection systems, and the brighter pictures those projectors deliver can emphasize motion artifacts such as judder. Judder is also a problem for viewing at home on the best mini-LED TVs and, more recently, the best OLED TVs , which have become notably brighter over the past few years. All TVs provide some form of motion processing, with customizable adjustments to reduce judder. However, these can give movies an artificial-looking soap opera effect, something some viewers actually prefer, much to the horror of film directors like Martin Scorsese, an early advocate for the Filmmaker Mode picture preset on TVs that shuts off all motion processing. The long-range plan for Pixelworks was to extend its TrueCut Motion ecosystem to TVs, which would be able to display the variable frame rate motion-graded version of a movie in the same way it was presented in theaters. At demos I caught at CES, the company displayed before and after TrueCut Motion-graded clips from movies like The Hobbit and Avatar: The Way of Water on modified TVs, and the results were fantastic: fast-moving actors and objects went from looking blurry to completely solid, and there was also none of the soap opera effect that makes images originally shot at 24 frames per second appear artificially sped up. Authentic Motion for the win The Wild Robot was the most recent movie to get a TrueCut Motion-graded cinematic release (Image credit: Universal Pictures) Its been a while since weve heard from Pixelworks with its TrueCut Motion tech, but Dolby is going for the same kind solution to judder via Dolby Vision 2 Max with Authentic Motion. It gives the film creators control over your TV's motion processing, enabling them to turn it up or down (or off completely) on a shot-by-shot basis, with 10 levels of strength so it can be used to reduce judder in scenes prone to it, and turned off for all other scenes. And given Dolbys pervasive influence in both the professional production and consumer electronics industries, theres a good chance we will soon be watching judder-free, variable motion movies at home. So far, Hisense is the only TV manufacturer to announce a partnership with Dolby to bring Dolby Vision 2 to new TVs, which we should see as early as 2026. TechRadar has reached out to other TV manufacturers about their Dolby Vision 2 support plans , but weve yet to hear any confirmation beyond were evaluating the opportunity. (Samsung, a staunch HDR10+ supporter, has never licensed Dolby Vision for its TVs, though its possible the new features provided by Dolby Vision 2 Max could make it reconsider.) As someone who has watched demos of variable motion-graded clips, and even full movies I saw the TrueCut Motion high frame rate version of Avatar: The Way of Water when it was out in theaters, and also the TrueCut Motion remaster of the original Avatar on an Apple Vision Pro that Pixelworks lent me I fully endorse any version of this technology coming to homes. Recent TVs have made incredible strides when it comes to brightness, local dimming, and color reproduction, and motion handling is the next TV picture quality frontier. You might also like The 5 coolest TVs at IFA 2025 The 7 coolest projectors at IFA 2025 I finally saw Sony's next-gen RGB TV in action ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/televisions/this-one-dolby-vision-2-feature-will-tra nsform-the-way-we-watch-tv-heres-how --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .