There have been a fair few reports from Xbox Insiders over the past few days suggesting that Dolby Vision support might have rolled out to certain games on Xbox Series X and S, and now Microsoft has confirmed that is the case.
Xbox senior marketing director Guy Welch highlighted this on Twitter earlier today, and Microsoft provided an official statement to Forbes, explaining that the feature is currently in testing for the two next-gen consoles.
“As we announced last year, we’re excited to be bringing Dolby Vision support for gaming to our new Xbox consoles in 2021. The feature is currently in testing and we’ll have more to announce on general availability timing and functionality soon.”
So, what is Dolby Vision? In simple terms, it's an HDR imaging technology that is technically able to provide greater image quality than HDR10, although it requires a TV or monitor that supports Dolby Vision in order to utilise it.
According to Forbes' research, it seems Borderlands 3, Gears 5, Wreckfest and Halo: The Master Chief Collection are all being tested with it at present for select Alpha-Skip Ahead Xbox Insiders, with the brightness, black levels and color saturations all appearing "more refined" with Dolby Vision than when playing the games with the usual HDR10.
Keep in mind that Dolby Vision won't just offer a one-size-fits-all approach to every game on Xbox, as it will seemingly need to be tailored for each game, but nevertheless we can expect some big AAA titles to receive it later this year.
Looking forward to the rollout of Dolby Vision for Xbox games? Let us know in the comments below.
[source forbes.com]
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Nice! My LG Oled supports this and Disney+ and Netflix shows with Dolbyvision look amazing.
Great news for users with Dolby Vision (gaming) supported TVs.
Dolby Atmos is only working with a two second delay on the by xbox recommended LG CX6.
Oh and about Wreckfest why u
Isnt the XS emblem attached to it since its series x update?
Damn, I wish my TV supported Dolby Vision..
I was more than surprised to find out that my old time favorite game Civilization 5 received this Dolby Vision feature. Even though the game was released more than 10 years ago it really has improved a lot!
Nice! My TV supports it, so I'll be looking forward to this.
Would it kill to put coming to series X/S at least put in the effort.
Any guides on Dolby Vision TVs coming? It's been a pain to find them in stores that aren't massive 70+ inch TVs
@Lupaie79 that’s a problem with Xbox unfortunately. Stereo is mostly in sync but the more surround you add the more delayed it gets. So windows sonic is delayed and atmos is more delayed still. It’s gets made worse by using gaming mode on your TV because that displays the image faster then the sound plays to give you a faster response time. Not really sure what the fix is as the delay will be different for every TV out there. Using headphones plugged into your controller improves the sync dramatically if you haven’t tried it.
Great news. Really enjoy Dolby Vision on my Sony OLED and looking forward to seeing it in games.
I'll stick with HDR, thanks. But good news for those who have a tv that supports it. I'm playing Fallout 4 and I'm blown away by how nice it looks with Auto HDR and in 60fps. MS have really hit it out of the park with Auto HDR. I suppose Dolby Vision will also utilise this feature by default.
Anybody with a series s? And how happy are you with it. Would you rather have a series x?
I only ask cause I'm not big on 4k gaming and the series s w/memory card is available in my area.
@Scenes yes I own the new headset bit its weird that MS doesnt fix it. PS5 doesnt have that problem on the same setup.
@PhhhCough I have a series S and Series X and my series s gets more use than my x since that’s what my kids use. If you are ok with 1080p 60 or 120hz for most games it’s great just don’t expect the eye candy bells and whistles like ray tracing etc. it can be done like in watchdogs legion but most developers don’t seem to want to take the time. It’s definitely next gen though you still get smart deliver, quick resume, higher res textures, etc. It’s very hard to go back to a one or even a one x after using either series consoles. The quality of life improvements alone are worth it imo.
@Lupaie79 I borrowed a friends PS4 last year to play Spider-Man and don’t recall it having that issue. It’s annoying Xbox doesn’t even acknowledge it let alone fix it. Especially in their recommended TVs
Lots of new technology on the latest TV's, cool time to be getting into some of this stuff.
@Scenes I've never had that problems. There should be a tab that says Audio Sync or something similar to that effect in the settings.
@BleedingDreamer I think it’s because it’s so variable. Not everyone who has it notices it and also it depends on your TV.
I would love for pure Xbox to run a poll to see if people have audio sync issues with Xbox and help draw attention to it to get Microsoft to add that. It certainly seems to be a thing.
I have a Yamaha AVR and have a 5.1.2 speaker setup and have no problems. You would think it would be easy for them to solve any sync issues with just a TV or maybe they just don't want too.
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