Dolby Vision on the LG G6: More than a branding exercise, but only just

Dolby Vision is one or the highest image quality standards in cinemas. It's so demanding there are just a handful of Dolby Vision screens across the world. They're not cheap to make-each screen uses two 4K laser-light projectors, rather than bog standard DLP-but with high brightness and 12-bit HDR colour they look superb.

At MWC 2017 LG and Dolby announced that the new LG G6 supports Dolby Vision, once again raising the question of how Dolby has diluted one of its audiovisual cinema techs this time. After all, Dolby Vision is a standard that ostensibly supports brightness levels up to 10,000 nits, where the brightest phones top out at 600-700.

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