Submission + - What No Man Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine to Maximum Quality (extremetech.com) 2
Dputiger writes: After nine months of work, I've published workflows, example videos, and screenshots showing how to restore Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from the rather potato quality of its DVDs to something you could plausibly call HD equivalent. These are the results.
AI upscaling (Score:2)
The problem with AI upscaling is that it's uneven. Some stuff gets a huge amount of extra detail, some stuff doesn't. It's jarring, you are admiring the great skin detail one second and the next someone's hair is smudged and back to SD.
I was hoping the studio might do an official HD version from the original film like they did with TNG, especially as the cost comes down, but it just doesn't seem to be popular enough.
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The problem with AI upscaling is that it's uneven. Some stuff gets a huge amount of extra detail, some stuff doesn't. It's jarring, you are admiring the great skin detail one second and the next someone's hair is smudged and back to SD.
This is much less of an issue than it used to be and different models are tuned differently as far as what kind of an effect they create. Some, like Theia, are user-adjustable. Like you, I hoped the studio would create its own version. I've given up on that and decided to do