Jeff Atwoodit's disturbing how quickly I went from "1080p is amazing!" to "1080p is utter garbage, where's the native 4k version?!"
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven@codinghorror And then you find out there's a whole section of movies which will never be able to look good on 4K, simply because they lack detail being digitally shot on 1080p.
@asmodai I am weirdly optimistic that AI upscaling will at least help here so it looks 4k-esque?
@codinghorror As I understand it, and I'm definitely not an expert in these techniques, you can resize/upscale, sure, but because the original format didn't have enough resolution to capture all kinds of details, versus 35 mm movie film stock with its grains, you can never get that detail later.
Like trying to get more detail out of a photo that's significant under- or overexposed.
@asmodai hmm, no, the AI models can infer what objects should look like and fill in the missing detail. Whether it does this accurately is another matter. Example (there are many others if you search) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw
[4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 1911
Upscaled with neural networks 1911 New York footage taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America: 💌 You can reach me here: https...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@codinghorror @asmodai Yeah. Can't recreate detail that was destroyed, but perfectly possible to confabulate what might have been there.