Hulu Finally Adds HDR Support For Some Original Shows

Finally, Hulu offers support for high dynamic range Diffusion.

Although the streaming service has supported 4K streaming on all of its exclusive and original TV series since at least 2016 – and although competitors like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney + and Paramount + have all offered support for streaming HDR for years – Hulu remained a stubborn resistance until very recently.

The news was first spotted by an informed user on the AVS Forum, which picked up an updated entry on Hulu’s support page which claims that users can “currently stream certain Hulu originals in high dynamic range (HDR), HDR10, HDR10 +, and Dolby Vision on select devices.”

HDR content offers a higher contrast range, which results in much finer and richer picture details. According to Hulu, an HDR badge will now appear on the content details page when it is available to stream in HDR.

Notably, HDR support has been added to most, but not all, of Hulu’s original series. WHiles TV deals like Nine Perfect Strangers, The Handmaid’s Tale, High fidelity and Small fires everywhere and movies like The happiest season and We work all currently support HDR, other series like FX american horror story, currently do not appear to support HDR.

According to Hulu, the ability to stream content in HDR is currently only available to viewers with “selected devices,” running the latest version of the company’s app, including:

• Roku (HDR compatible models)
• Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube devices (HDR compatible models with Fire OS 7 or later)
• Apple TV 4K (fifth generation or later)
• Vizio (HDR compatible models)
• Chromecast Ultra (HDR compatible models)

While Hulu is several years behind the HDR party, it’s a nice consolation that the platform currently offers support for HDR10 + and Dolby Vision, given that most of its competition, with the notable exception of HBO Max– currently only supports one or the other.