> what is gained?
Removing film grain makes compression far more efficient. This reduces costs of streaming.
Removing film grain makes compression far more efficient. This reduces costs of streaming.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Oh7HizY5I
Which I guess is why Max has a boring gradient.
> Removing film grain significantly improves compression efficiency, resulting in reduced streaming costs.
Why didn't you word it like this in the first place? (Mind the compression efficiency: 18 bytes improvement over the original, 109 bytes versus 117 bytes gzipped.)
;-)
Anyway, what is more important to preserve: artistic choices made according to the medium (which importantly includes the kind of film stock for any movie) or bandwidth?
And, if it's all about bandwidth, why do a high definition version, in the first place, and not stick to the low-bandwidth, but high fidelity 2K transfer?