SneakyTiki

Man, discovering this post in December of 2025, and getting to read through y’alls collective emotional roller coaster of the UHD Blu-Rays getting launched and ultimately disappointing; right as I’m realizing that the product I would actually want doesn’t really exist and apparently my DVDs are basically still the overall peak on the retail side for extended editions… Very interesting experience.
Thank you all so much for all of the hard work this community does. I wish I had the skills to contribute, but for now I’ll just keep lurking.

Out of curiosity, has anyone messed around with DVD footage and adding HDR tone-mapping. Doesn’t have to be these movies. I’m just curious, because I have a running hypothesis that I’d be perfectly content with DVD quality with just more color depth/contrast. Would love to check it out if it exists.

So there I was.
Media Server humming, DVD library ingested, finally had a display capable of meaningful HDR output. And so I thought ‘wouldn’t it be nice to hand over more money for some HDR tone-mapping on these beautiful shots…’
And now hear I am. A simple thought is now another side-quest to find someone with the skills necessary to accomplish what I naively thought would have been an obvious goal: Take what’s not broken, and add a touch of garnish.
Now I will patiently linger around, hoping some of these fine gentlemen like Deloreanhunter here share their beautiful creations with me. Or, if not, wait until the robots get good enough to help me do what I want.

I can appreciate the higher fidelity of HD releases as much as the next person, but when they come with so many shenanigans, I can’t be the only person who thinks ‘Honestly, I’d be content with DVD quality if I could just get some more color depth.’ The technology progresses, but the soul of the craft is dead.