Originally posted by Michail_P when synthetic data is creating the illusion of pixels from scratch, then is it really still the same shot?
For anyone who uses a digital camera with a Bayer Filter Array (ie the vast majority of us), the colour data in our pixels is created synthetically already. As each pixel can only record one colour (red or blue or green), a demosaicing algorithm estimates the amount of the other two colours to give us our colour digital image.
I see the advances in up-sampling (of which super-resolution is the latest) to be a natural progression. No more or less "true" to the original shot than the image our digital camera has "created" for us in the first place.