Dolby Vision 2 Is Coming, but Your TV Isn’t Obsolete (Yet)

Dolby Vision 2 is an updated and improved version of its owner HDR format that we find in several of our choices for the Best TVs from 2025And Dolby announced that this will happen soon. The protruding facts include, well, the promise of better strong moments, as well as easier reading and other improvements.

But don’t worry – your TV will not turn black. This is not a format replacement. In fact, if your TV is compatible with Dolby Vision now, you shouldn’t notice any changes. DV2 brings a few upgrades behind the scenes on the production side, as well as modifications to the new televisions that will wear the Dolby Vision 2. brand. These updates could be quite interesting, as I will explain below.

As it has just been announced, we only have basic information, but we will talk more about it while we are starting to get our hands on DV2 compatible televisions.

Dolby Vision 2

At the heart of DV2 is an “redesigned and even more powerful image engine”. What this means is not entirely clear, but the idea seems to be that it benefits from the quantity of more shiny and more competent televisions since the launch of Dolby Vision. DV2 seems to be designed to take advantage of this greater performance with a new mapping of tones, among other improvements. Helping creatives to take advantage of the abilities of modern televisions is also part of the backstage upgrades.

The biggest change with DV2 is “happy intelligence”, which “presents new tools to better fill the creative suite of the spectator show”. As in, what you see at home is closer to what the creative team behind the show or the film you watch wanted you to see. In general, this aspect is to help HDR content to better appear on a greater variety of visualization screens and environments. There are three aspects to this. Here’s how Dolby describes them:

The perfect black is intriguing. In my criticisms, I have often found that displays with bad HDR performance actually seem brighter and better with HDR deactivated – the projectors in particular. The precision of the black will work to see, but I hope that it only goes to automatically adjust the brightness. I think that the use by Dolby of “clear” and “clarity” words here is more in the vernacular, not linked to details or clarity.

In simple terms, it means clarifying the image when there is a lot of ambient light in the room and darken it when there is none. Many screens already do it automatically, it is logical that Dolby wants to regain control on behalf of the creators. It remains to be seen in its operation in practice.

Finally, there is Optimization of sports and games, which aims to “meet the unique needs of sports and live games”. Part of this understands what I think is the most interesting and potentially controversial aspect of DV2: authentic movement.

‘Authentic movement’

One of the things that I despise most about new televisions and projectors is the smoothing of movement, alias the soap effect. “Hate” does not even cover it – and I’m not alone. It is an abomination of a technology, and honestly, I cannot understand why someone would appreciate it. However, people do it, so what do I know? Now, with the new authentic DV2 movement feature, Dolby grows beyond HDR limits:

• Authentic movement is presented as the first tool for controlling creative movements in the world, designed to make the scenes more cinematographic without undesirable Judder, adjusted on a shot by blow.

I stuck my hand to Dolby for clarifications on this subject, as it made the top hair on the back of my neck. The company’s response: “[Authentic Motion allows a creative] To adjust the quantity of screening for shots or specific scenes, they feel best corresponds to the appearance of what they are trying to transmit. He is motivated by the intention of the artists and will only be used in the photos they really need and only in the amount they think necessary. “This means that a director can choose to choose to add The movement of movement towards specific scenes if they consider that it is necessary. I hope it also means that they can deactivate it entirely if the TV already has it. We will have to see how it is implemented. To be clear, this is only an option in DV2 – which means that a director or a creation must activate it, and you would also need a DV2 compatible TV for it to be important. So put the forks (for now).

DV2 to come 2 U

Dolby Vision 2 is available in two flavors: Dolby Vision 2 Max, intended for high -end televisions with “additional premium functionalities” (probably including an authentic movement), and the Dolby Vision 2 standard, or “vanilla”, which always includes content intelligence and the new image engine, designed for maintenance TVs.

The TL; DR (conveniently at the bottom): Dolby Vision 2 is on the way. It will be in new televisions, will not affect current and could lead to more Dolby Vision content, as new creative tools facilitate it.

Hisense will be the first to offer televisions with DV2 in some of his next mini-lanes. Other companies will probably follow. Expect to see a group announced at CES 2026 in January.

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