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Disney+ is disabling Dolby Vision, HDR10+, more for some users

Ben Schoon | Feb 6 2026 - 7:50 am PT

If you’ve noticed that HDR formats including Dolby Vision have suddenly stopped working on Disney+, you’re not alone, and it’s actually an intentional change.

As reported by FlatPanelsHD and Heise, a patent dispute in Germany has led to Disney+ intentionally disabling Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and 3D (only on Apple Vision Pro) content formats on its platform. The change was noticed by some in late 2025 in Germany, but it’s now affecting more users across larger portions of Europe as well.

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Gotta Love Streaming!

a) Streamflation aka prices have tripled

b) Fragmentation Nightmare (good luck finding all interesting series without subbing to 5 different services)

c) Tax Write Off Nonsense (complete films or series are removed from a service for tax write off shenanigans)

d) Ad pollution (you get to pay to watch ads - thanks capitalism)

e) Have friends or family? Nice! Pay more.

f) Ownership? Nope. If we don't extend a license, you won't have access. Too bad.

g) Geo Blocking - profiting off globalisation? Only companies are allowed to do that! Companies buy resources and labor cheap across the world, which is totally fine, but if a customer dares to use globalization to save a few bucks, thats evil and nasty and illegal!

h) Quality decrease - goodbye good scripts and original series. Hello "safe" re-gurgitation of the same franchise.

i) No more curation by people, all hail the algorithm.

And companies act surprised why piracy is on the march again..

Piracy was nearly dead. Then the industry, hunting for short term profits, destroyed the perfect world of streaming: instead of an easy, convenient, cheap all-access pass, people are now expected to pay 2x of old cable for half the content. Nice!

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A support page has even removed mention of Dolby Vision, including in the US market.

So far, reports of Dolby Vision and HDR10+ disappearing have only come from France, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, and Germany, but the removal on Disney’s support page suggests other regions could be affected in the future as well.

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As FlatPanelsHD points out, the patent dispute is against a company known as “InterDigital” which, apparently, has a reputation of being a “patent troll” and has also pursued cases against the likes of Amazon, Samsung, and other companies. German courts are currently holding an injunction that affects HDR on Disney+, but the full impact and outcome remain unclear for the time being.