A native 1080p scan of a clean 35mm print contains approximately 3-4 million pixels of actual information. A 4K scan of a DNR-smoothed, re-graded interpositive might boast 8 million pixels, but half of them are invented, wax-like approximations of the original grain.
When Warner Bros. prepared the film for home video, they re-graded it. The 2004 DVD and the 2008 Blu-ray introduced a much heavier, more artificial green push. By the time the 4K remaster arrived in 2018, the film had been scrubbed, noise-reduced, and color-timed to look like a modern digital movie. It lost its 1999 soul. the.matrix 1999.35mm.1080p.cinema.dts.v2.0