Discussion about AI, DNR etc.

[mx77]

I want to start a dedicated thread for discussion about AI processing, noise reduction, degraining etc. Doing any kind of processing to remove grain and noise - which can also be described as enhancing - seems to be quite a divisive issue. I will be adding a reply to a message in The Terminator 4k thread, where @Ruined and @sojrner have been discussing about this very matter. As you can see from my reply, I personally like the idea of removing grain, as it makes the picture so much more pleasant for my liking. I see the grain just as a flaw of the medium available at the time, and only the movie itself as the art, not the medium it was originally stored on. However, I really hope that we can have a discussion without ANY unneccessary off-topic comments, that are just targeting the person, not the matter itself.