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Alexei_Drekker
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Jan 15, 2020

4K Streaming + HDR Support

Edge (Stable + Dev) is supposed to play HDR (Dolby Vision) content on Netflix and Youtube, but it does not appear to be working. Edge Legacy works perfectly fine in this regard. I have not been able ...
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HotCakeX
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Jan 15, 2020
Which graphic card do you have?
the legacy Edge and the new Edge which is based on Chromium, require different hardware specifications to provide HDR support.
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    Alexei_Drekker
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 15, 2020

    HotCakeX 
    CPU: Intel i7 8850H
    RAM: 16GB
    GPU: GTX 1050Ti
    Windows 10 Build No: 1909 
    (Fully Updated)

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      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Jan 15, 2020
      GPU looks good, if you had the previous Gen (9th series) you would be having problem with HDR in Edge.

      btw i also read that you need to be using HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort 1.4. not sure if it's actually a requirement though, from your post it looks like you are already using HDR contents
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        Alexei_Drekker
        Iron Contributor
        Jan 16, 2020

        HotCakeX On this device, it is HDMI 2.0. It's a new laptop and the specifications for the external port lists it as 2.0. It's running on dedicated graphics mode as well. 

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