ChainsawAsh said:

You say that like it's a good thing.

I think it is. Obviously, a lot of the posters here may disagree, but I'd prefer a mere simulation of what it would look like without grain to a picture with a bunch of artifacts that are nothing more than an unavoidable side-effect of film-making. That said, I want the process of removing such artifacts to extend beyond merely blurring the image. It only looks good to me when it's been done by frame by frame, practically by hand, like the OT DVDs. Unfortunately, that's incredibly expensive and time-consuming, so we often end up with what Harris describes. Sucks, but that's life for you.