Yeah, I was thinking that the added encoding complexity of DV (plus the licensing costs for the indie distributors) would likely mean that it's not going to be used on every little thing, see the mini-movies on the Despicable Me discs for a start.
But if the majors continue to use 4000 nit grades for HDR10 then that's one of DV's intended USPs taken care of already, it's more the extended bit depth (which may/may not see huge improvements on anything but animation, particularly considering panels are mostly 10-bit anyway so the 12-bit source will still need to be dithered back down to 10-bit) and special sauce metadata (for remapping to less than fully specced TVs) that are the biggest draws right about now.
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