Mastodawn

"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

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hokid

@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.

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jwz 15h 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.