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So, here ist your comment with the grain removed (quote -> GTP summary -> GTP re-expanded to original length):

> 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.)

;-)

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I like to waste other people’s time, 5 seconds at a time. :)

Do you mabye mean "GPT"?

Yes.

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?