Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by drexlspivey on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:05AM
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Can you do an 8K remaster of a movie shot in 4K digital? With film you can just rescan the negative with a higher resolution.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by masurus on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:20AM
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Yes? There's a ton of AI upscales coming out and they're becoming really good; plenty examples on youtube including iconic scenes from iconic movies. Perhaps another 12 months max before AI upscales go from enthusiast/amateur remaster community to commercial.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by drexlspivey on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:27AM
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Having an AI generate 75% of the movie pixels that weren’t there in the original work doesn’t really count as a ‘remaster’ imo
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by lmm on Sunday January 22, 2023 @07:35PM
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It's what most of those "HD remasters" of film are doing. (Well, sometimes it's a human or a chemical/mechanical process rather than an "AI", but either way you're fabricating details out of noise and/or thin air).
The problem is, just like with CGI which has gotten pretty good at modelling light transport, it feels off because it's too clean and clear. Digital it's too good at capturing reality. Film introduces a bunch of artefacts and limitations that 'look' nicer than accurately captured reality. In part this might be because most of us grew up watching cinema styled that way, in part because it leaves more room for the brain to compensate for those limitations with imagination.
With the advent of easily available stylisation AI trained on film, we should see digital close that gap any time now.