I’m confused. Isn’t this the original Star Trek remastered in HD with new CGI effects?
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
AI upscaling is probably just much cheaper and easier to do. I mean I do AI upscaling myself. The older Star Trek series that will never get a full Blu-Ray remaster/re-release has copies that have been upscaled from SD to HD and they are pretty flawless, especially considering it’s a fan project.
That being said I’ve also seen the other side of the spectrum, where they AI upscaled King of the Hill and there was a lot of really weird artifacting and stuff going on.
Really sad to see studios just cheap out on high resolution releases. It just makes them look bad in the long run and makes me less likely to buy physical media.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 months ago
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
They remastered Star Trek as well as The Next Generation, but claimed that the physical sales did not cover the costs which were around 10 million for each series. They opted to not to continue to remaster any of the shows that came afterward, namely Voyager and Deep Space Nine. That’s where the fan community picked up the slack and made the AI upscales.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Oh I see what you mean! When you say older series, I just assumed you meant the original television show.
wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Yeah AI upscaling has been around for years, there’s phenomenal implementations of it where you legitimately can’t tell, and there’s godsawful implementations that are thrown together in a matter of 15 minutes, given one pass, and submitted.
Every piece of media I’ve upscaled (mostly animation) has been great. So far, every upscaled release I’ve seen posted has been terrible. And yes, it may only have been 2 or 3, but that makes it that much sadder because only 3 movies have been released with upscales and they wouldn’t even take the time to do it well.
It’s a shame.