Dolby Vision 2 will be featured in Hisense, Philips, and TCL TVs in 2026

If you thought Micro RGB would be the only new TV technology proliferating across TV lineups in 2026, think again. Dolby Vision 2 is also coming to many new TVs this year. Hisense has announced plans to support the technology in 2025, with Philips and TCL joining the party at CES this week.

First unveiled in September 2025, Dolby Vision 2 promises to alleviate some of the flaws of the original proprietary protocol; namely, scenes that are too dark from Dolby Vision, which will be corrected with an AI-based feature that Dolby calls Precision Black. AI will also redeem the original protocol’s unrealistic rendering of sports and video games, via Dolby Vision 2’s sports and gaming optimization, which promises to provide both malleable white point and motion information.

Motion artifact reduction, meanwhile, will be handled by an Authentic Motion element of the protocol, but this feature will be limited to an advanced version called Dolby Vision 2 Max and will likely only be found on high-end TV models.

Additionally, Dolby Vision 2 will adjust the entire color and contrast scheme based on ambient lighting conditions, although this will obviously only work on TVs equipped with ambient light sensors.

What is this metadata thing? Well, Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HDR10+ are relatively small data streams that rely on the actual image data stream and tell a TV that understands them how to render the content. This can be as granular as frame by frame (in the case of HDR10+ and Dolby Vision 1 and 2), or all at once, as with HDR10.

Warnings

Dolby Vision 2 will only provide its benefits with content created with it. (the Canal+ film studio was among the first to announce its support). There was a bit of noise about brand wars in the early days of this overlay metadata technology, but it was so easy (and free) for content creators and publishers to implement all the protocols, that it became a tempest in a teapot. Hopefully it will be the same this time.

That said, Samsung will undoubtedly stick to royalty-free HDR10/HDR10+ as in the past. Meanwhile, LG and Sony have remained silent on the implementation of the new technology; However, if Dolby Vision 2 lives up to the hype and grabs the attention of buyers, the two industry giants will definitely follow suit at some point.

Unfortunately, Dolby Vision 2 won’t be an upgrade for existing TVs that support Dolby Vision, as the technology requires new hardware. For now, that means new TVs powered by a MediaTek Pentonic 800 with MiraVision Pro PQ Engine chipset.