media in its failures
The specific experience of media is in its failures. The lines you see in a VHS, the darkness around the edges of a TV screen, the feel of a controller in your hands. When a media is perfectly immersive, then we forget that it is media, but the ways that immersion fails is the experience only that media can provide.
I remember hearing a concert and the thing that stuck out to me most was the mistakes. Made it feel more real than just listening to the song on streaming.
The ultimate media is a blank void you float in while surrounded by light and sound.
