I’ve seen fan-made AI upscale works that don’t suck, but I expect cartoons benefit more from the technology than live action footage ever could.
I went through a phase of testing out Topaz AI upscale tools on videos. Ultimately I didn’t like the results, as impressive as they are you always end up with some hallucinations ruining details.
The exception is cartoons. They upscale really well.
I don’t see the point of watching upscaled version of an old TV show. It ruins the atmosphere. It’s like playing the NES version of Tetris on an emulator and using HD textures for some reason.
Also if you’d want to upscale it anyway, why not provide source material and allow customers to use any upscaler they want?
Also if you’d want to upscale it anyway, why not provide source material and allow customers to use any upscaler they want?
Because Upscaling is incredibly resource hungry. You can’t do it on a 250€ “smart” TV with the calculation equivalent of a raspberry pi 2.
And then, sunk cost fallacy goes brrrrr.
the decades-old footage, which was originally shot on film
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You utter dipshits. If it was on film, then you had the fidelity to spare to upscale it in HD the normal way (by re-digitizing it). You didn’t even need the goddamn AI!
If it was on film, then you had the fidelity to spare to upscale it in HD the normal way (by re-digitizing it)
Yep. It’s the reason The Original Series and The Next Generation got HD remasters, but Voyager and DS9 didn’t. The latter two were shot on digital and so it wasn’t possible, while the first two were shot on film.
