Out of the box, the Redmi Note 8 Pro came without support for Widevine L1. This meant no HD streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime for the owners of the device. However, the company has promised to resolve this issue with the Redmi Note 8 Pro Android 10 update.
It took a while before the operating system started hitting the device. When it finally arrived in late February, users reported that the update did indeed correct Netflix HD streaming issues as promised.
With Widevine L1 activated after updating to Android 10, owners of Redmi Note 8 Pro were finally able to play HD videos on Netflix and Amazon Prime. But for some reason, this same update also removed HDR support on both platforms, at least according to several reports.
Redmi note 8 pro does not support amazon prime HD video streaming even after Android 10 update. Please fix it and also fix HDR streaming support for Netflix and main video.
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HDR streaming apparently works well on YouTube, but it is not supported on Netflix and Amazon Prime. While all fingers are pointing to streaming services, Xiaomi could be at fault here.
As it stands, only the Mi 10, Mi 10 Pro, Mi 9T, Mi 9T Pro, Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro have been whitelisted by Netflix for support for HDR broadcasting, suggesting that the Redmi Note 8 Pro does not meet the requirements to be whitelisted by Netflix for HDR streaming.
The story should be the same when it comes to HDR support on Amazon Prime, so we hope that a future MIUI update will address this issue once and for all.
Thanks for the tip, Naveen.
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