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His thoughts are simple. Early on, it was almost as if there was a purposeful point to be made. HDR had to shout it’s being. In time colorists seem to have eased up, especially with older film-based productions. My ethic with HDR, which apparently is a marketing necessity for streaming, is to...

Fade negates the use of HDR, as does certain restorative functions. Blu-rays have nothing to do with HDR. Any comparison should be to APPOVED answer print. I just want to know if or how it's possible to apply HDR in a way to better reveal and not "enhance" the original intent.

The important point to understand is that HDR is NOT what we are seeing.

Certainly. Depends upon the film and its surviving elements.

No

The general concept at the moment, for many, is to create something that will be easily noticed.

I believe there has not been a single film that has been moved to digital (laserdisc on) that hasn't been modified from the original 35mm,70mm, etc film in some fashion. This could be edge enhancement, sharping, colorization, blah, blah and I would bet most of them were not coordinated with the...

Your belief would be totally incorrect. RAH

Not well. At least with the extremes that currently represent HDR. With a quality,i.e. MOF (Mit out fade) film element, and an extremely knowledgable, gentle and adept hand, possibly.

Please keep in mind when discussing 4k, that discs and streaming yield very different final results. 4k is not always 4k, even though it may be sold as 4k.

It's the image projected through yellow cigarette smoke.

Any studio that takes its library seriously will not changing the original experience, which I don't recall as being grainy and horrible sounding. The home theater experience is meant to, as you say, "spruce up" the older productions. But change them? Not so much, unless the filmmakers are...

With a shorter film this is possible. See Shout Factory's Journey to Space, which includes two versions with separate data streams.

Whatever software was providing the uprez, may not have known what to do with the burned out "Ansco chrome" shots.

How were you uprezzing the data? Projector or player, and if player, which one?

Ghostbusters also had HDR, but the overall image was magnificent, as long as one accepts grain, as a naturally occurring entity.

Sony's WCG releases were interesting, as I'm not certain that the entire proprietary system necessary for playback ever arrived outside of Sony. Nothing wrong with WCG, btw, MOHDR. RAH

The execs who make those decisions at the studios are reasonably savvy, and one must presume they would listen carefully to what the asset protection execs tell them. I'm really not anticipating a problem.

There seems to be a misunderstanding, at least in on-line discussions, as to what HDR (High Dynamic Range) actually is... and might not be. It is NOT an inherent part of the 4k UHD package. It is in no way necessary toward the enjoyment of 4k, either in the home, or elsewhere. HDR is an...