Dolby lately introduced Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2, the next-gen model of the corporate’s superior HDR format, which incorporates a extra superior image evaluation engine and provides management of movement smoothing to creators for the primary time, amongst different upgrades.
Naturally, I wished to know which TV makers would help Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2, and one notable response was from LG, which mentioned it had no plans to help the brand new HDR format.
Nonetheless, LG has since contacted TechRadar to replace us on its stance, and truly it is much more ambivalent. The corporate did not verify that it’s going to help Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2, however made clear that regardless of the sooner assertion, it hasn’t determined not to both.
“We’re evaluating the chance and stay dedicated to delivering distinctive viewing experiences,” Baik Seon-pill, head of Product Planning Division on the LG Media Resolution Firm advised us, referring particularly to Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2.
This places it in keeping with Sony, which advised me: “Are we in dialogue with Dolby? Sure, however in the mean time we do not actually have a transparent assertion to make about Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2.”
Who’s down with Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2?
The primary TVs anticipated to get the function shall be its forthcoming RGB mini-LED lineup, which shall be out there in 50 to 100-inch sizes once they arrive in early 2026. The corporate has additionally mentioned that its present Hisense 116UX mannequin might be upgraded with Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2, a promise that ought to come as a supply of aid to consumers of that $30,000 TV.
Past Hisense, TCL hasn’t but made an official assertion on Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2, although it was tellingly displaying a Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2 emblem below a TV in its sales space on the current IFA 2025 present.
As for Samsung, the corporate has by no means supported Dolby Imaginative and prescient in any of its TVs, so there’s little motive to count on it’s going to dive in for a next-gen model of the HDR format. And we have but to listen to any Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2-related bulletins from Panasonic, Roku, Amazon, or Philips, though every of these manufacturers helps Dolby Imaginative and prescient on its present TVs.
Clearly, apart from HDR10+ stalwart Samsung, all of those TV makers are standing with LG in “evaluating the chance” for including Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2 to future TVs. We’ll undoubtedly be taught concerning the selections they’ve made at CES 2026 when new TVs are introduced, in addition to what plans, if any, they’ve for upgrading older TVs with Dolby Imaginative and prescient 2.
