The Elephant Man (1980)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by sonicyogurt

Could you cite a podcast, interview, etc. where Lee Kline expressed this? He’s never mentioned anything remotely along those lines about UHD/HDR in anything I’ve read or listened to.

Would also love to hear where Mr Kline has mentioned this as a viable concern. I get the impression that he's very blasé about what HDR actually offers - having told the story in the podcast about doing an HDR pass on a Coen brothers film only for them to go 'meh' having seen it, and also told the story about Soderbergh gently nudging the HDR on Sex, Lies... rather than turning it into the kind of Light Cannon™ grade that the overriding public perception of HDR seems to be - and then he goes on to say that 4K would only have a benefit on a projektor anyway!

He's talking purely about resolution and not range but that's very revealing in itself, for if he was in any way concerned about HDR tone mapping then playing it on a projektor would be at the top of the list. He then goes on to justify not releasing stuff in 4K because those using projektors are in the tiniest minority of Criterion buyers, which runs totally contrary to them holding back on it just in case PJ types would be badly disadvantaged by the HDR snafu. He's saying they're holding back 4K because there aren't ENOUGH projektor owners out there to take advantage of what he perceives to be the main benefits.

Again: I think people are giving them far too much credit here.