Definitely not you. Sorry you thought it was.
Fake DV is a weird term indeed. It fits in with Plex decision to implement it though with zero option to turn it off. They’re both equally weird.
Pretend DV may be a better term. Whatever we call it there is no Dolby Vision metadata present just a signal to trigger Dolby Vision mode on the tv. So what’s the point?
There’s are plenty of us who have been asking why for the last year or so since Plex shiny Blogpost about it. There wasn’t a single word on it from anyone at Plex in that time.
It took DaveBinnM’s unfortunate redundancy to shed some light.
Now he’s not confined to Plex speak he seemed happy enough with the term FakeDV.
For context this was regarding likely scenarios when the 17 OS’ land with native profile 8 support and surmises about how Plex deal with it.
His thoughts about it will be likely using the old player seem pretty spot on. After all, there’s not much gonna be happening with MPV any time soon.
Anyway it’s not like Fake DV is even remotely in the top three or four issues with Plex on Apple TV, so I’m slightly sad I even mentioned it.
