Ok, just to give you an example of the amount of losses in a normal digital rendering process, I've watched on HD with full screen view :  my view and corrections welcome : This clip is from transformers 3 and why I'd watch on a large screen or get an original DVD for a large screen.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHRf01Gjosk
 
1) The Moon landscape feels like am playing Duke Nukem 3d many years ago, there is a lot of loss in the details.
 
2) Watch the faces at 0:33, they have soft textures and are again missing depth, though the camera distance was correct.
 
3) At 0:36, Paramount wording have lost edge details, the sceen is flat.
 
4) At 0:50, the scene losses are even more and soft textures, as it the camera person did not get the focus correct
 
5) At 0:56, the scene has lost all dept and details
 
6) At 1:04, you can clearly see the pixels starting to form around the Moon dust
 
7) At scene 1:14, it looks so lossy that the frame looks so unreal.
 
8) At 1:59, she has an expression but the digital rendering takes out the depth of the frame. Its flat and useless.
 
Rgds.