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As an audio engineer working during the time of that transition, the thought of mastering at low fidelity would never cross our minds. Mixing to play to the limitations of the presentation method, sure. But we wouldn't make things sound awful because the playback medium sounds awful. The goal was to make things sound good on good systems, and good enough on bad systems. TV and music on records as well. So it's not surprising that old stuff can sound better now than it did on the equipment of the day.
And keep in mind that a common source for high-def video is film from decades ago...
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