To a certain extent, sure.
The thing with HDR is that it doesn’t need to be used at the equivalent of a Spinal Tap “11”. It’s just a wider range that things can exist within than the previous range available to home video. If a piece of film had more information than the old video color space...
I think there is definitely something to that and I can’t help but think of that every time someone posts that they’re not going to buy a new release of a classic film (or even a newer film) because it hasn’t been remixed to a newer, more advanced format. As an example of the former, I think...