Comment by pessimizer

We already have people demanding higher definition televisions to watch AI-sharpened 4K restorations of old films whose grain and focus would annihilate any details that small worth seeing.

There's an arms race between people adding nonexistent details to old films and people manufacturing televisions with dense enough pixels to render those microscopic fictions. Then they lay a filter over it all and everything becomes smooth gradients with perfectly sharp edges.