Hulu Is (Finally) Adding HDR Support for Some Original Shows

At lengthy final, Hulu is providing assist for high-dynamic vary streaming.

Although the streaming service has supported 4K streaming on all of its unique and authentic TV collection since not less than 2016—and regardless that opponents like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Paramount+ have all provided assist for HDR streaming for years—Hulu had remained a cussed holdout till very not too long ago.

The information was first noticed by a savvy consumer on the AVS Forum, who picked up on an up to date entry on Hulu’s support page that claims that customers can “currently stream select Hulu originals in high-dynamic range (HDR), HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision on select devices.”

HDR content material delivers a better distinction vary, which ends up in a lot finer, richer image particulars. According to Hulu, an HDR badge will now seem on the small print web page of content material when it’s out there to stream in HDR.

Notably, HDR assist has been added to most, however not all of Hulu’s authentic collection. While TV choices like Nine Perfect Strangers, The Handmaid’s Tale, High Fidelity and Little Fires Everywhere and films like Happiest Season and WeWork all at the moment assist HDR, different collection, like FX’s American Horror Story, don’t at the moment seem to assist HDR.

According to Hulu, the choice to stream content material in HDR is at the moment solely out there to viewers with “select devices,” operating the newest model of the corporate’s app, together with:

• Roku (HDR appropriate fashions)
• Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube gadgets (HDR appropriate fashions with Fire OS 7 or later)
• Apple TV 4K (fifth-gen or later)
• Vizio (HDR appropriate fashions)
• Chromecast Ultra (HDR-compatible fashions)

While Hulu is a number of years late to the HDR get together, it’s a pleasant comfort that the platform is at the moment providing assist for HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, given that almost all of its opponents—with the notable exception of HBO Max—at the moment solely assist one or the opposite.