What is Dell Cinema?

Affected Products:

• Dell Cinema

Dell Cinema reinforces Dell’s commitment to thoughtful design and truly immersive cinematic experiences. Dell Cinema is the combination of several cutting-edge technologies all working in concert to give the viewer an immersive, captivating experience on their computers. Dell Cinema is available across select XPS and Inspiron devices.

What is Dell Cinema?

Dell Cinema is a combination of innovative technologies all working in concert to transform the entertainment experience on computers, taking you into a world of vibrant life-like color, brilliant sound clarity, and uninterrupted streaming on Dell PCs.

Dell Cinema features are available on XPS and select Inspiron computers. You can identify computers with Dell cinema, as highlighted below on the Dell website.

Dell Cinema offers three key features:

• CinemaColor
• CinemaSound
• CinemaStream

CinemaColor

CinemaColor uses advanced hardware and software to deliver visuals that appear every bit as vibrant as the world around you. Two separate solutions drive this experience on Inspiron and XPS laptops:

• Dell Color Profiles (DCP)
• Windows HD Color with HDR Streaming (this feature is limited to specific platforms).

Dell Color Profiles is Dell’s color enhancement technology that enhances the display color and contrast to deliver more vibrant, more detailed color representation, and dramatically optimize your overall viewing experience on computers.

DCP adjusts the gamma, white point, and saturation on-screen to provide vibrant, deep colors that make the display look truly impressive. DCP has four modes that optimize these settings depending on the content and your surroundings:

1. Movie Profile (default) - Watching Streaming Video - Movies and TV - General warming of the colors and adjustment to contrast for perceptual improvement over standard panel settings
2. Evening Profile - Watching Movies and TV in low light - similar to Essential profile but additional adjustment of contrast, white point, and brightness for viewing in low light and maintaining the shadow details in the movie.
3. Animation Profile - Watching Animated Movies and TV such as Cartoons, CGI, and Anime Saturation is adjusted to make colors "pop.", this adds to the viewing experience.
4. Sports Profile - Watching streaming Sports and Movies and TV benefiting from Vivid color enhancements. Any streaming video where bright lighting and colors are prevalent benefits from these profiles. Sports events are always under bright light, and uniforms are colorful. This profile adjusts the colors on display to be more vivid.

CinemaColor for Dell is used to perceive warmer colors, improved details, and contrast when watching movies and TV for a better experience compared to native panel settings. Objective - Adjust screen color to obtain a warmer and a broader range of colors. Similar benefits of HDR but with standard definition (SDR) content and standard displays

Dell Color Profiles offers four modes, as shown in the UIs below.

A separate and less widely available feature of CinemaColor applies only to XPS and a few Inspiron 7000s with optional displays capable of UHD resolution, 300 nit brightness, 72% color gamut, and true 8-bit color (not 6 bit + 2 dithering). That feature is called Windows HD Color with HDR Streaming, explained below.

Windows HD Color with HDR Streaming is an advanced HDR technology that delivers spectacular color, brightness, contrast, and detail for ultra vivid and lifelike images that make you forget you are looking at a screen.

XPS and select Inspiron configurations with panels that support the Windows HD Color with HDR Streaming requirements (panels with 300 nits brightness, 72% color gamut, and true 8-bit color depth) can read HDR content using software that is built into Windows 11 and Windows 10. HDR streaming will not work if the hardware does not support it. Screen captures below show how to check if a computer can engage Windows HD Color with HDR Streaming:

• Stream HDR video on Windows 10
• Display requirements for HDR video in Windows 10.

To change Windows video playback settings and check that HDR capabilities follow the steps below:

• To change Windows Video playback settings, select the Start > Settings > Apps > Video playback:
  
• To check Display capabilities, Select HDR:
  

CinemaColor for Dell System Requirements

Software

Operating Systems:

• Windows 10 v1709 (Fall Creators Update / Redstone 3) RS3 and later¹
  • Home Edition
  • Pro Edition
• Windows 11 21H2 (November 2021 Update) and later¹²
  • Home Edition
  • Pro Edition
  ¹Does not support S mode.
  ²Windows 11 SE is not supported.
  Note: For information about Windows versions, reference https://support.microsoft.com/windows/which-version-of-windows-operating-system-am-i-running-628bec99-476a-2c13-5296-9dd081cdd808#WindowsVersion=Windows_11

Internet Browser:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
• Microsoft Edge

Platforms:

CinemaColor for Dell is only functional for the following Dell hardware platforms:

• Dell XPS
  • Dell XPS 13 7390
  • Dell XPS 13 7390 2n1
  • Dell XPS 13 9300
  • Dell XPS 13 9305
  • Dell XPS 13 9310 2in1
  • Dell XPS 13 9310
  • Dell XPS 13 9365 2in1
  • Dell XPS 13 9370
  • Dell XPS 13 9380
  • Dell XPS 15 7590
  • Dell XPS 15 9500
  • Dell XPS 15 9510
  • Dell XPS 15 9570
  • Dell XPS 15 9575 2in1
  • Dell XPS 17 9700
  • Dell XPS 17 9710
  • Dell XPS 27 7760 AIO
• Dell Inspiron Laptops
• Dell Inspiron All-in-One
• Dell Vostro Laptops

Note: Dell Vostro Laptops’s require CinemaColor for Dell v2.3 or later. For the latest version, reference https://www.microsoft.com/p/dell-cinemacolor/9nrbz5zfdv61#activetab=pivot:overviewtab .

Graphics:

• AMD or Intel Integrated Graphics
  Note: CinemaColor for Dell does not support:

  • Discrete graphics cards
    • For more information, reference https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000057824/graphics.html .
  • External monitors

CinemaSound

CinemaSound enhances your audio experience with Waves MaxxAudio Pro audio processing solution. It brings you a more dynamic sound stage with more transparent highs, deeper bass, and higher volume that make you feel every note without distortion.

CinemaSound allows you to experience studio-quality sound. Whether you are playing games, listening to your favorite tune or movie scores, or watching a movie, you can experience cinematic sound that is meant for the recording studio or big screen on Dell Inspiron and XPS PCs.

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CinemaStream

With CinemaStream, watch your live streaming on your Dell PCs and experience less buffering, fewer drops, and better resolution. These Dell-exclusive solutions can detect and prioritize your critical network traffic over less urgent traffic.

With Killer Wireless (hardware solution on XPS) and SmartByte (software on Inspiron), you can channel the maximum bandwidth to your videos or music for a stutter-free experience.

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Reinstallation

CinemaColor Reinstallation

1. Dell CinemaColor can be downloaded at the following link:
   • https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NRBZ5ZFDV61
     
2. Click Get. This opens the link in the Microsoft Store, click Get again to begin the installation
3. Dell CinemaColor is only available on selected XPS and Inspiron computers. If installed on a non-supported computer you see the following error:
   

CinemaStream (SmartByte) Reinstallation

1. Dell CinemaStream (SmartByte) can be downloaded at the following link:
   • https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9mwzs8xm2b89
     
2. Click Get. This opens the link in the Microsoft Store, click Get again to begin the installation
3. 32bit application can be downloaded from https://www.dell.com/support/home/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=crw5f

CinemaSound (Waves MaxxAudio Pro) Reinstallation

• Dell CinemaSound (Waves MaxxAudio Pro) can be downloaded at the computer's support page at Ensure to use the computer's service tag or auto-detect feature to find the computer's downloads.

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• Dell Cinema Guide