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"Official Video, Full HD, Remastered"

Now, I'm old enough to remember when "remastered" meant "we re-scanned the 35mm negative". Let's take a look at the upper left quadrant of the first 15 seconds of that video at half speed. On the left: a 702x576 rip I made of the video in 2003 from the SD DVD release, Directors Series Volume 3: The Work of Michel Gondry; on the right, the 1392x1062 "Official Full HD Remaster"...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5U

Mar 26 at 11:51pmjwz.org
Show threadThomas Mayer1d ago
@jwz
Touché: "Retouches"
Show threadbazzargh1d ago
@jwz any time I see youtube shorts (the horror, the horror) about half the vids have this look, and I have to wonder if this is something kids these days have convinced themselves is good?
Show threadowlboy 1d ago

@jwz so many of these official “remasters” are the equivalent of fan made special editions/edits.

Edit: this was an overly broad statement. I was talking about dorks running stuff through upscalers and AI models. It’s a genre of YouTube video.

Show threadmhoye1d ago
@jwz Watching the e in “Jupe” chomping like a Pac-Man.
Show threadcetan1d ago
@jwz This has real shades of that spanish fresco that was "fixed." This person is barely recognizable /as a person/ in the "Full HD remastered" version.
Show threadMaxwell Spangler1d ago

@jwz Related: “We’re being lied to about 4K.”

Found this recently and enjoyed the revealing details.

https://youtu.be/yN0H_WfWOp4?si=NyA8f0m2afIOEGdo

The Biggest Mistake in the History of Hollywood

YouTube
Show threadToniours1d ago
@jwz next target, the music 😭
Show threadMutesplash1d ago
@jwz Using the word correctly would requre equipment, phone calls, physically searching, you know: work. Easier to redefine the word...
Show threadhokid21h ago
@jwz I recently wanted to show Björk's "All is full of love" from Chris Cunningham. All HD versions are AI upscaled shit. The original in Björks channel, for some unfathomable reason, is age restricted and requires sign-in. You can't make this shit up. Had to rip my old DVD... never get rid of your old physical media.
Show threadjwz19h ago
@hokid I *did* get rid of all of my old SD DVDs, after ripping the rare ones, but now I wish I had done so in slightly higher quality.