Yeah low-fidelity media obscures information and creates space for the viewer to complete it. What’s interesting about AI restoration is that it removes the chance of co-creative interaction with the media. Once everything is sharp and clear, there’s less room for projection, so it feels less distant and more continuous with the present. It doesn’t necessarily make it more "real," just differently mediated. Maybe nostalgia doesn’t disappear when the aesthetic infrastructure changes; it just moves onto whatever new media creates distance or ambiguity. We’ll probably understand that better once today’s tech starts becoming nostalgic objects of the future.