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Disney endorses Dolby Vision HDR on its next 4K Ultra HD

The next two 4K Ultra HD titles from the Disney group, Deadpool & Wolverine on the one hand, Alien: Romulus on the other hand, are announced in HDR Dolby Vision. A specification rare enough for the editions of the American mastodon to be noted.

Except for the James Cameron films released in 4K Ultra HD last spring by 20th Century Studios (Abyss, Titanic, True Lies and Aliens, click on the links to discover the full tests by AVcesar), owned by Disney, and The Last Jedi, the second installment of the latest trilogy, [abc]HDR Dolby Vision[/abc] had been reserved for new releases presented on the Disney+ platform for several years.

4K Ultra HD Disney, HDR Dolby Vision generalized?££££

So, learning that the HDR Dolby Vision process will be present on the upcoming 4K Ultra HD titles Deadpool & Wolverine (released on November 27) and Alien: Romulus is really good news. And learning that Dolby Vision HDR should be available on most, if not all, upcoming [abc]4K[/abc] [abc]Ultra HD[/abc] titles from the Disney group is incredibly good news.

The information is provided by our English colleague John Archer on the Forbes website, a journalist with proven reliability. In his latest article, John questions the reasons associated with this 180° turn and hypothesizes that it follows the distribution agreement for physical products from the Disney group with Sony. It's quite possible. In the end, the reason doesn't matter, so the bottle, as long as we have the intoxication of Dolby Vision HDR…

4K Ultra HD Disney, when will there be 100 GB discs?££££

Last remark, like our English colleague, we hope that the next step of the Disney group regarding its 4K Ultra HD releases will concern the adoption of 100 GB discs (triple layer) and not 66 GB (double layer) in order to minimize the audio and video compression of the stored content, and therefore magnify their image and sound qualities.

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