Netflix adding HDR image support, hints at support for AV1 format

Netflix is adding HDR image support to its platform browsing experience to match up with the HDR streaming support it’s featured for some time now.The SVOD provider is starting small and testing HDR images with only two shows: “The Innocents” and “Marvel’s Iron Fist.” The company said that members with HDR-capable TVs using Netflix on an HDR-enabled PS4 Pro, Xbox One S or X will have a chance to see these experimental images.Netflix acknowledged that its HDR still images are showing up years after the service began streaming in HDR, but said the process was more difficult than it would seem.“It turns out that compositing and displaying HDR graphics along with video is harder than you’d think — there are a variety of technical hurdles yet to clear, and it will take some time for the hardware that can do this compositing to find its way into reasonably priced TVs and streaming accessories. Also, it wasn’t even initially clear to us how to create or store HDR images,” the company wrote in a blog post.