1776 4K UHD (1972) (50th Anniversary Edition)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by TravisTylerBlack

Wonderful news. I’m sure this will utilize the existing 4K restoration, which is already positively sumptuous via the current blu. The film itself is an absolute delight, if course. I’ve watched my copy every July 4th since it was released 5 or 6 years ago and it never grows tiresome. The music is charming, unpretentious, and the cast is 5 stars across the board. (One of a precious few examples where almost the entire original Broadway ensemble was utilized.)

The 2015 disc was encoded with an added layer of color depth/picture information that’s only
visible when viewed on a Sony display with “mastered in 4K” mode enabled. Not quite HDR, but certainly nothing to scoff at as the native 4K SDR streaming version actually looks inferior from both a compression and fine detail standpoint.

That "mastered in 4K" thing was/is utter marketing bollocks IMO. If the stream looks worse it's because it's a stream, not because the Blu-ray is doing some voodoo bullshit.