Those with a 4K Dolby Vision-capable TV and Comcast’s Xfinity X1 service will be capable of watch Super Bowl 57 in a brand new means: in 4K HDR with Dolby Vision. On Thursday, the 2 corporations introduced that they are going to be taking Fox’s 4K feed of this 12 months’s Big Game and including in Dolby Vision.
You might want to have Comcast’s X1 cable field and a TV that helps Dolby Vision to reap the benefits of the higher-quality Feb. 12 broadcast. It could be discovered by saying “4K” into the voice distant for the X1 cable field. Dolby says that the feed will present “lifelike colours, sharp distinction, and wealthy particulars.”
Dolby says that Comcast is repackaging Fox’s 4K feed in real-time with Dolby Vision. Asked if this may result in any extra latency or lag in comparison with different 4K or HD Fox telecasts, a Comcast spokesperson advised CNET on Friday that including Dolby Vision “doesn’t add any noticeable latency,” with the format including a delay “within the order of milliseconds.”
Dolby Vision is a high-dynamic vary video format. “HDR content material on an HDR TV can look much more punchy and vibrant than conventional content material,” CNET contributor Geoff Morrison explains. Dolby’s model of this tech is supported by streaming providers akin to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Vudu.
While it is a first for the Super Bowl, Xfinity and Dolby have broadcast different sporting occasions in 4K with Dolby Vision, together with final 12 months’s FIFA World Cup (which additionally aired on Fox) in addition to the community’s NFL playoff video games this postseason. It’s additionally value noting for TV image followers that Fox’s 4K NFL protection shouldn’t be produced in native 4K however, as The TV Answer Man factors out, is an upscaled 1080p HDR sign.
Those who haven’t got Comcast can nonetheless watch the Super Bowl in 4K HDR (albeit with out Dolby Vision) by way of a number of different cable, streaming and satellite tv for pc suppliers or with a log-in for a kind of suppliers and the Fox Sports or Fox Now apps.