• Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    “What makes all of this worse is that True Lies, […], did not need to be shoved through the AI wringer. […] Park Road Post had a recent 4k scan of True Lies from the original camera negative. Park Road Post’s own website claims they have a Lasergraphics Director 10K film scanner on the premises. So what is the purpose of adding AI to this mix? Why do that to a perfectly fine-looking film?”

    This part makes me think of the loudness war. Editors will overuse digital tools that degrades the original media if it “pops” more to the average public. More and more and more.

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      6 months ago

      Might also just be easier and pure laziness. “Hey Joe don’t we have a license for that new computer thing that makes us more money? Yea yea put the whole vault through it and re-release 4 movies a month. The shareholders will love us milking the license cow!”

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    6 months ago

    Nothing undermines an argument from “look at this missing detail!” like exclusively sharing 480p images.

    Don’t want to host 4K screenshots? Crop, dude. Show off the bits you’re talking about. Maybe with a comparison to a higher-end DVD transfer?

  • jesuiscequejesuis@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This article would benefit immensely from some side by side comparisons, and an actual breakdown of the details the AI altered versions get wrong.