Disney+ is disabling Dolby Vision and 3D content in 11 countries

Disney+ is blocking support for Dolby Vision and 3D content on its platform in 11 countries as a result of a legal ruling.

Disney+ is once again disabling Dolby Vision and 3D content in countries across Europe. This comes merely a couple of months after Disney restored these formats back in March.

The reason is due to a patent case, where US company InterDigital won a case against Disney that spans across 11 countries in the EU, leaving users in affected regions without Dolby Vision HDR or 3D content (on devices such as Apple Vision Pro).

In a press release, InterDigital explains:

The Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) ruled that InterDigital is entitled to an injunction over Disney’s infringement of an InterDigital patent covering certain video encoding techniques related to HEVC and confirmed the validity of this patent. The UPC is a pan-European patent court which issues decisions that apply across multiple countries in the European Union (EU); here, the injunction against Disney spans 11 EU countries