Google Play Movies supports 4K HDR streaming

Great news for fans of HDR videos, movies and series via broadcast services, but it carries another bad news. Google announced the launch of the HDR-High Dynamic Range viewing service on its Google Play Movies platform and its TV application to be supported by the service.

Google Play Movies offers 4K HDR Movies

HDR technology is used to increase the number of colors in the image, adding a wider range of differences between bright white areas and dark blacks, making images clearer and more natural when compared to HD viewing technology.

A list of technologically-supported movies has not yet been announced, but you can easily find them using 4K HDR Movies or HDR Movies filter and you’ll find the word “Available” under “HDR” written for movies and series supported.

The most important films that reached us that are supported by the technology are:

  • Suicide Squad
  • LEGO Batman
  • Kong: Skull Island
  • The LEGO Movie
  • Fantastic Beasts and where to Find Them
  • Mad Max: Fury Road

The other part of the problem is that the technology is only available in the United States and Canada. but for the rest of the world, you can watch movies and series through HDR technology using other broadcast services.

Netflix and Amazon, for example, support HDR broadcasting, and YouTube has also supported the technology.

There are also rumors of Netflix support to broadcast technology on mobile phones that support its 4K HDR display.

If you’re in the United States or Canada and want to watch HDR shows, you’ll need a TV that supports streaming through this technology, as well as being smart. If you own the first the first one and do not have the other, you can buy a Chromecast that supports streaming and you can watch through Google Play Movies service.

Read more: How to convert your TV to Smart TV

HDR has recently been deployed, but because the rate of change of TVs is not equal to mobile phones or laptops, the number of HDR-supporting TVs owners is not comparable to the number of who don’t.

The company has not yet announced the launch of the service in the rest of the world, but all they have said about this point is that it is coming in the “coming months”.

Do not forget that you can purchase Chromecast through the Samma3a store.

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