What gives with these HDR 10 releases instead of Dolby Vision?

[davcole]

I see 300 released in HDR 10, C'mon, Warner titles always get Dolby Vision!! What's with the non-Dolby Vision releases, since Fandango Now took over?

[jeremymc7]

Talk to the studio.

[bestquality]

It's Dolby Vision at iTunes and Movies Anywhere. What does the studio gain by restricting DV to those two providers?

[jeremymc7]

Exclusive contracts? Different wholesale pricing to providers? Providers server configuration?

Generally it's not on Vudu if 1) Not available to Vudu from the studio form any of multiple reasons; or 2) Vudu missed the latest version and it just needs to be updated.

[bestquality]

I think all of Warner's non-SDR titles are DV at Vudu except this one and 300 has DV elsewhere. The customer has a relationship with Vudu, not the studio, and Vudu should be requesting the correct product from their supplier.

[jeremymc7]

I didn’t actually mean the end user should contact the studio. They would get no where. In general though these request (largely) result in a response if we can only put up what the studios allows to, historically. The exception is also usually when Vudu’s version is just out of date and another transfer is available and should have been updated but for some glitch hasn’t. In terms of Vudu pressuring the studio to get a version available on day iTunes I can say I’ve never seen that in the near decade I’ve been here. Not that it might not or can’t. Just setting reasonable expectations here. There has been a lot of the same requests over and over through the years and answers are pretty consistent.