Disney+ has lost Dolby Vision and HDR10+ in some countries, and the US could be next — it says 'technical challenges', but a report says patents are to blame

• Dolby Vision and HDR10+ are unavailable on Disney+ in some European countries
• It's possibly connected to an ongoing patent dispute
• Advanced HDR still available elsewhere right now, but Disney's support site in the US doesn't mention Dolby Vision at all

Has Disney dumped Dolby Vision in Europe? That's what reports on Reddit and in multiple media outlets suggest. After Dolby Vision and HDR10+ disappeared from streams in Germany, multiple reports say that they've gone missing in other countries too.

According to Disney, what they're experiencing are "technical challenges" – but as FlatpanelsHD points out, it's quite possible that the real reason is legal rather than technical.

Disney is currently being sued in a German court over allegations of patent infringement, and Germany was the first place to lose Dolby Vision and HDR10+: it vanished in late 2025, just after the Regional ...