Faultline recently asked Netflix representatives why the usually regular Netflix Tech Blog had been in a state of radio silence since the streamer’s record-breaking boxing bout in December 2024. We were told, simply, that the higher-ups would not let the engineers write about the technical aspects of the feat, given the intense global media spotlight on Netflix’s first large-scale live sports event. Alas, a month later, the Netflix Tech Blog is back—with some bumper news on video codecs. Riding the coattails of Disney’s recent HDR10+ announcement at CES 2025, Netflix is now streaming HDR10+ content for AV1-enabled devices—a major visual upgrade a decade after Netflix first adopted HDR technology. Previously, these devices only received HDR10 content—still the most widely adopted…