Hi everyone! We’ve been working hard on improving playback performance in our Apple TV client, namely when streaming high bitrate HDR content and/or using the latest 2022 (fanless) Apple TV. This is something that not only we’ve been investigating for some time, but that has been reported multiple…

In the legacy app, Plex would force the DV flag but still output only the HDR10 fall back content when playing Profile 7 media. I’ve tried to get clarification on if this is what they are doing with the New Experience tvOS as well, as the DV flag on LG TVs does trigger. However no one from Plex has …

Yeah, the legacy app having fake DV and Plex being mum about this (though they have been mum about this entire beta. When was the last time someone from Plex even commented here?) doesn’t instill great confidence that it is real DV.

So as I implied in my last post, there is NO proof, only reporting of radio silence which has triggering all this speculation of Fake Dolby Vision. Conclusion… Humbug

Considering that they used fake DV in the legacy app and mums the word from them about the beta, the burden of proof is on them to prove that it isn’t fake. We can’t just take their word for it since…they haven’t given any word about it.

Why is it on them to say anything when in Beta? Being realistic, Plex is not the only Tech company to practise silence when in development. Mind you, I’m not saying that it is right nor wrong.

I don’t know what to tell you if you don’t think some clarity isn’t needed to have good faith trust in what we are seeing after having fake DV for years. You do you, but imo you’re being naive.

Why be frustrated, there is an alterative for my OS that works fine. I have a fantastic Media Server and life is good with my LG OLED. If Plex are faking Dolby Vision, I can’t believe the Quality picture my eye balls see when set correctly with ATV 4K. So if Plex come clean and it’s as you say bad …

I just looked at some videos on the latest build, 2026.18.0 (992), and it’s still incorrect not only for DV, but for regular HDR10 videos as well. In addition to that, I tried playing an HLG video, and for some reason it triggered Dolby Vision on my TV (the Infuse player falls back to regular HDR). …

When will the production version be released to the tvOS App Store??? I’ve never seen anything take this long before. They release entirely new versions of IOS on a 12 month cycle. What is the f*(&@ng hold up here???

I was just able to finally get on the TF. Some slots must’ve free’d up. Looks very nice!

Apple Player Update Beta Testing

Plex Players Player Betas

pshanew September 17, 2026, 4:28pm 1936

It appears that everyone will be getting the new experience client for Apple TV soon:

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