"lesser visual fidelity" vs. "lower visual fidelity"? [closed]

I'm wondering whether to use "lower visual fidelity" or "lesser visual fidelity" when comparing two identical scenes in two documentaries, one being remastered and thus of higher quality.

The complete sentence is:

"The old documentary features the same scenes, alas in lower visual fidelity."

Can both of these terms be used? What's the difference?

Both are probably fine to use. However, according to Google, "lower visual fidelity" is far more commonly used that "lesser visual fidelity". The former search returns over 2000 hits, but the latter returns only 50.

There's no difference in meaning; the difference is in the metaphor used for visual acuity.

Lessened visual fidelity is a Quantity metaphor (part of a Container schema), in which fidelity is conceptualized as a fungible substance that can be acccumulated, and increased or decreased in amount.

Lower visual fidelity is a Vertical metaphor (a common One-Dimensional schema), in which fidelity is conceptualized as a fungible quantity whose size can be measured and displayed on a vertical (Y-axis) scale, in which higher levels indicate greater quantities of fidelity.

Lessened is less metaphoric, in that it doesn't introduce the irrelevant vertical dimension for recording scales that lowered does, but only a little bit -- UP is MORE, a part of the UP/DOWN schema, is completely assimilated in our culture.