The biggest surprise of the IFA 2025: Dolby Vision 2 was presented at the fair in Berlin. The first televisions to be delivered with it come from HiSense. But at IFA, the colleagues discovered something exciting inside.
The Dolby Vision-2 logo at a TCL TV excites our sensation
During your tour of your knife, you also discovered a logo for Dolby Vision 2 with a 98-inch TCL TV. That alone may not be particularly exciting, even if, of course, HiSense TVs were the first devices when announcing. But of course the new HDR format will be found with a fairly great certainty with many future televisions from a wide variety of manufacturers-except perhaps with Samsung TVs who rely on their own HDR10+.
But it is exciting what Robyn Quick from What Hifi would like to have learned about the supposed model. Accordingly, it should be the TCL C8K. If you regularly follow our tests, you may have already discovered our test report:
In other words, the television shown on IFA 2025 could be a 2025 model-and not an only published. And that allows the conclusion that the successor to Dolby Vision does not necessarily require new technology and could come as an update for older televisions.
Updates possible for older TVs – or not?
It is exciting that WHAT HIFI had asked for various manufacturers to support which televisions are supported. So far, only Philips has answered. Philips will bring Dolby Vision 2 in future 2026 models, but confirms that older televisions cannot get an update for Dolby Vision 2. With which TV you are definitely correct in terms of Dolby Vision, you can check in our leaderboard:
So we are not much smarter. It is quite possible that an update is only possible with certain chip sets. Or Philips wants to use the feature as an incentive to buy for upcoming models.
But it may also be that TCL made a mistake. Perhaps the logo was attached to the wrong TV or the contact mentioned has simply made a mistake. Or some features from Dolby Vision 2 can be taken over, but not all – hence the division into Dolby Vision 2 and Dolby Vision 2 Max, as you can read in our post:
