Followers of inky blacks and vibrant highlights rejoice: Netflix now formally lists HDR help for Google’s Pixel 6, 6 Professional, and extra reasonably priced 5A. That’s based on one of many streaming large’s help pages, noticed by 9to5Google, which seems to have been up to date someday after January 14th. The replace additionally seems to have listed the telephones as supporting HD on the service.
The replace ought to imply house owners of Google’s newest smartphones gained’t have any downside watching HDR or HD content material on Netflix. Though the streaming service usually lists new gadgets as suitable on the day of their launch, as with the Galaxy S21 collection, there are sometimes instances when it doesn’t listing help till a lot later, like with the OnePlus 8.
It’s not fully clear why Netflix hasn’t listed HDR or HD help on the Pixel 6 lineup till now, however shortly after the telephone’s launch, customers on Reddit had been reporting that their telephones didn’t seem to have the ability to play HDR content material from the service correctly. Nevertheless, the issue doesn’t seem to have been common, with different Reddit customers reporting that they’ve been in a position to watch Netflix’s HDR content material with out difficulty on their Pixel 6 gadgets from day one. Hopefully, the replace means the function ought to now work for everybody.
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