> I'm sorry your tech isn't good enough to recreate the original. That does not mean you get to change the original because your tech isn't up to the task.
The market has spoken and it says that people want to watch movies even when they don't have access to a 35mm projector or a projector than can handle digital cinema packages, so nobody is seeing the original outside a theater.
Many viewers are bandwidth limited, so there's tradeoffs ... if this film grain stuff improves available picture quality at a given bandwidth, that's a win. IMHO, Netflix blogs about codec things seem to focus on bandwidth reduction, so I'm never sure if users with ample bandwidth end up getting less quality or not; that's a valid question to ask.
The market has spoken and it says that people want to watch movies even when they don't have access to a 35mm projector or a projector than can handle digital cinema packages, so nobody is seeing the original outside a theater.
Many viewers are bandwidth limited, so there's tradeoffs ... if this film grain stuff improves available picture quality at a given bandwidth, that's a win. IMHO, Netflix blogs about codec things seem to focus on bandwidth reduction, so I'm never sure if users with ample bandwidth end up getting less quality or not; that's a valid question to ask.