Movies, television shows, anime, etc. from the past are being placed onto these newfangled formats, with words like Blu-Ray and High-Definition. These formats boast greater clarity than ever before, and letting you see things you never could before, or in some cases things you were never intended to see in the first place.
Watch a cel animation in Blu-Ray and you’ll see the dust and scratches. Watch movies from a few years back and it potentially becomes blindingly obvious what is real and what is not, what is CG, what is a matte painting. How much better-looking will video get in the future? How can creators prepare for this? They can’t, but they’re probably aware that in a number of years when the VHS is a distant memory they’ll have to deal with the fact that customers will be able to see more than they should. At the same time, there might be cases where a creator wishes he could show more but he’s limited by the film and video quality of his time.
So what if there was a way for the viewer could control the level of quality personally? You would be able to customize just how clear the image could be. Just like a program used with scanners, you’d be able to reduce dust and scratches, or leave them in. And creators can “recommend” certain settings which they feel are best for their works. Watch movies and anime as the creators intended, or simply ignore their suggestions and play by your own rules.
Controllable visual quality on the viewer’s end is something works both new and old would benefit from.
OGIUE MANIAX 
And you can get that with computers already.
My take on this subject is actually very different and more practical than yours. With high fidelity formats that shows all details, flaws and non-flaws alike, you’re really seeing something that wasn’t meant to be seen. As such, naturally an old movie or anime that doesn’t age so well on a hi-def setup is primarily suited for people who are connoisseurs, those who can actually appreciate the thing he or she is seeing is not meant to be seen originally. In reality, who would go back to old school stuff that were made with NTSC limitation anyways, if they haven’t seen it as is in the first place? Someone really freaking curious, I guess.
But if a student of old audiovisual media is truly doing so to study–to appreciate the details on a high-def set can bring to an aging anime–then they are in a way connoisseurs as well. The causal audience is unlikely to mix and match in such a way.
Thankfully 35mm transfers very well to high def, so at any rate you’re probably not going to see anything that wasn’t meant to be seen for the most part. Anything less than that will get a rework-over or an appropriate upscale that the flaws are invisible for the most part.
To put into example, I struggled with this to a degree with the two Makoto Shinkai Blu-Ray releases. You can see his character line art very clearly in them. I wouldn’t say they are flawed, but let’s just say it can and it does impact the visual experience. Works like this–totally digital but not primed for 1080–are kind of rare. But hopefully that’s what you’re talking about here.
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