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Originally Posted by Brendone
I picked up The Abyss and True Lies and felt they were fine. Way better than my old DVD versions. Hard to imagine watching these and getting bent out of shape by the details pointed out in that YouTube video. “Oh noes, AI made skin creases too deep for that split second!”
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Sure they will be upgrades from DVD or VHS... but given these versions might be on the best and last format ever released, it's an ugly precedent. Highest resolution but messing with the actual art by using AI. There are a lot of fantastic restoration studios that painstakingly improve the quality for a new upgraded release, but these AI results are unsurprisingly bad.
It's not too different from when classic albums were remastered during the "loudness war", completely clipping the audio fidelity. Or as mentioned in the video, when George Lucas digitally ####ed with the Star Wars releases.
Again, not everyone will notice or care and I certainly get that. It's the same reason 4K UHDs are considered a niche or even unknown format themselves.