packetcat"They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like" by Chris Person
https://aftermath.site/true-lies-4k-uhd-blu-ray-james-cameron-peter-jackson-park-road-post
"But I am certain about one thing. For a while, much of gaming tried looking like Aliens. Now, Aliens looks like a video game. And that doesn’t sit right with me."
oh wow the article in the OP of this thread really resonated with y'all eh
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Sylvhem@packetcat Thanks for sharing. That was interesting.
Procyon MontaniLB: I thought Get Back looked okay, probably because I torrented the 720p version and some of the gross detail was less noticeable under the compression. As much as I don't want anything to do with generative AI, I figured making damaged film footage more watchable was one of the few small unobjectionable use cases for it. But now they're doing it with films we have perfectly good prints of? From which we can obtain perfectly good ultra-high-res scans? Why? Why? Why. Why?
Lynnesbæn 
@packetcat great article. the thing is, if they used a little restraint, and dialed in the settings to preserve artifacts like film grain properly, they could probably do a decent enough job -- in cases where no 4K transfer is available, and the best we've got is a TV transfer tape or, god forbid, an anamorphic DVD.
but instead they've dialled it up to Mondo Smooth Mode and created these garish oil painting monstrosities.
i particularly the result in this comparison here:
plain old boring original: https://i.imgur.com/59Wu9ps.png
cool and epic "future is now old man" version: https://i.imgur.com/7hfBulf.png
embarrassingly bad.
your favorite perk@packetcat I hate this shit so much, it’s destructive
Sir Willington@packetcat Is this like Ted Turner colorizing Casablanca?
Obsurveyor@packetcat The DVD and streaming transfers of True Lies are fucking dogshit too. It's like it's cursed.
Tobias Migge