But the caveats are one step behind. The “extra quality” label often masks heavy-handed sharpening and aggressive noise reduction. Faces can look plasticky, motion gets halo artifacts, and grain — which for many films is part of their character — disappears into an odd, clinical smoothness. The results depend heavily on the source: a good transfer from an original print can astonish; a cleaned-up copy of a poor master merely trades one flaw for another.