Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps
Humans like flaws.When CDs first came out, people argued that they sounded "cold," even though they're near-perfect recreations of the music that was recorded. People like the hiss and compression of records and tapes.This is also the same reason why people like Instagram filters. Normal iPhone pics are too good. Let's fuzz em up a bit.Also, look at v1 of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other popular sites - they were far from pretty.There's a lesson here. Somewhere.