We had HDR10+, now it’s gone. Some are saying it was a server-side change on Netflix’s part

A reddit member writes that Samsung is deliberately witholding support to sell new TVS:

“Samsung has made it clear on its blog that HDR10+ will only be available on TVs from the 2025 line and that it will be supported in other models in the future (unknown). This means that we can forget about it for now (users of older versions), for an indefinite – long time. It is also not certain whether premium TVs from the last few years will get this option at all, because Samsung is silent on this topic when and which models will support it, and as a reminder, all 4k HDR UHD TVs from 2021 and later can already support it, because they have AV1 hardware encoding.”

“Samsung is deliberately withholding support for this format on Netflix on their TVs, despite the fact that it is their own format (!), and what’s more, the lack of Dolby Vision on the entire line, for which they do not want to pay a license. This situation is sick. Not only is there no Dolby Vision, but when Netflix, the main streaming provider, introduces it to Samsung TVs, Samsung blocks it except for TVs that are just entering the market. This is a blatant sales drive and lack of support, even for new premium TVs, for which we had to pay a lot of money. We paid for a TV with HDR10+, Netflix allows us to do so, and we still can’t watch it. What’s more, HDr10+ appeared on TVs from the C/D line and was withdrawn after a few days propably with update. What a shame.”

Whereas another member thinks that Netflix is to blame:

“It was a server-side change on Netflix’s part. No update to the app or TVs. My S90C was showing it for a bit then it went back to HDR10 but the Netflix app nor TV has seen an update in some time. Keep in mind with stuff like this it’s ultimately up to the app developer which features do or do not get rolled out to certain TVs. Samsung was simply the messenger. I’ve said this before but I think Netflix is enabling this slowly across a range of products while they work on finalizing all their content in HDR10+ as the work of getting everything switched over to HDR10+ is still very much in progress.”

We briefly had HDR10+ on our Samsung S90C before it vanished. The software version of the TV has not changed.