That reminds me of how sales reps have tried to rationalize HDtv poor picture of non HD by saying the problem is inherrant in the old obsolete analog source and we should just accept how bad standard video looks on HD tv's because HD is better. Well, all my personal videotapes are on so called crappy standard definition and gasp, most are on analog tape!
I guess it would be the equivalent of being told all the old music before digital recording (like the Beatles, Motown...) has to sound crappy and worse than it did on LP record, while current songs, which are so bland that even the studio master probably sounds like mp3, can have "crystal clarity."