They could.
But why wouldn’t they just actually compress the video?
In digital/streaming video, there is no physical tape which produces grain, so there is no choice but to add it in post.
But if you’re serving up digital video, then you can simply just serve up an authentic compression/bitrate/resolution.
I suppose maybe players in the future won’t support the codecs we use today?
They could. But why wouldn’t they just actually compress the video?
In digital/streaming video, there is no physical tape which produces grain, so there is no choice but to add it in post. But if you’re serving up digital video, then you can simply just serve up an authentic compression/bitrate/resolution.
I suppose maybe players in the future won’t support the codecs we use today?
The client might even have a local AI that extrapolates away visible artifacts from old compressed videos.