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We’ve hit the final week of September, and to celebrate we’ve penned a fresh entry into our regular Rewind hi-fi and home cinema news digest. In it, our team of experts contended with everything from a Philips launch event in Amsterdam to a fresh batch of AV hardware in need of the What Hi-Fi? review treatment. Here’s everything you need …

It’s fair to say that the initial announcement of Dolby Vision 2 left more questions than answers. The press release was long, with lots of fancy terms and feature names, but precious little detail, and that left lots of people – me included – feeling rather sceptical about it. There’s nothing quite like a bit of vagueness and, in particular, …

UPDATE: We have now heard from our TCL contact, but they were unfortunately not able to give us any additional information on the TV Robyn saw at IFA, or TCL’s Dolby Vision 2 plans. That might change after the TCL press event, which is about to take place. You may like For now, I think the only conclusion that can …

Dolby has announced the features of Dolby Vision 2, its successor to the popular Dolby Vision HDR format. Whereas the original Dolby Vision was meant to give creators the ability to finely tune exactly how TVs present content in HDR, Dolby Vision 2 appears to significantly broaden that feature to include motion handling as well—and it also tries to bridge …

Dolby Vision has been one of the industry standards for HDR on TVs for over a decade. At IFA 2025, Dolby Laboratories is introducing Dolby Vision 2, what it calls “a groundbreaking evolution of its industry-leading picture quality innovation.” The second iteration has been updated to meet the capabilities of today’s TV technology and the ever-expanding set of artist tools. …

More than 10 years after the launch of Dolby Vision, the next generation of the HDR format is here, and it aims to do more than just optimize tone and brightness level for different scenes. The new version, called Dolby Vision 2, has new “Content Intelligence” tools that use AI to automatically optimize your TV based on what you’re watching, …

eBay has kicked off its Labor Day Sale with a 20% off coupon code that works on all products sold at the official Bose Outlet eBay store. That includes the Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar, Bose’s biggest and most impressive soundbar speaker with Dolby Atmos and Bose TrueSpace Technology. It normally retails for $1,000, but you can get it on sale …

Tim Burton‘s iconic “Batman” (1989) and “Batman Returns” (1992) are getting the premium treatment, returning to theaters for a one-night engagement on Aug. 25 exclusively at Dolby Cinema locations. The remastered versions will play at over 160 Dolby Cinema at AMC Theatres locations across the U.S.. This marks the first time both films will be presented in Dolby Vision and …

Not everything pops with such dramatics, and there were some tracks where something was lost (or rather gained) in translation. Reverb was one element that mixers occasionally seemed unsure how to handle in some older tracks. The snare in Elton John’s “Mellow” from Honky Château feels oddly out of place, with extra verb that clearly wasn’t meant to be isolated. …