Netflix brings HDR streaming to smartphones, starting with the LG G6

Further, since more and more video content is consumed on mobile devices, Netflix also revealed plans to introduce changes to its encoding techniques, that will allow the streaming service to eat up less of the users’ bandwidth, without sacrificing video quality to achieve this..
With the new encodes, users on a 2GB data cap will supposedly be able to stream up to 30 hours of Netflix content, the Economic Times reports.
"Netflix will soon roll out new video encodes for mobile devices, providing someone who has an extremely poor internet connection watching on a cell network something that once was considered impossible," Hastings said.
The LG G6 is the first smartphone to support both the Dolby Vision and HDR 10 formats, but more mobile devices are expected to adopt them in 2017. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 will likely have support for both, since last year’s ill-fated Note 7 was HDR 10-enabled, and Dolby Vision is becoming an industry standard for film studios worldwide.
source: TheEconomicTimes
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