Btw the state of video players today (bad support for hdr, Dolby vision, Dolby atmos etc) reminds me their state when divx and Dolby surround were firstly introduced. Lots of work needs to be done.
But I'm not expecting a significant revival of video players. Who wants to watch shows and movies on a computer nowadays? On most devices (TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, ... but also computers to a lesser extent) you're limited by the hardware codecs, a custom video player is typically not going to save you.
The newer Nvidia shield advertises support, but it is incomplete and does not suport the enhancement layer included on most Dolby Vision discs.
MakeMKV supports preserving all this metadata so I would love a solution that lets me watch my 4K Blu-Ray rips with Dolby Vision.
Because of the fact that video compression is so terrible (especially with Netflix, even on highest plan) that at times it’s unwatchable.