I don’t see the point of watching upscaled version of an old TV show. It ruins the atmosphere. It’s like playing the NES version of Tetris on an emulator and using HD textures for some reason.
Also if you’d want to upscale it anyway, why not provide source material and allow customers to use any upscaler they want?
And in a very real way, if you’re allowing customers access to source material so they can programmatically manipulate it at a time that online services are rapidly enshittifying, it’s contrary to their business goals. A ripper that upscales is probably trivially easy to use.
And plus, who knows what a client upscaler will hallucinate across multiple models and technology platforms. (Or may be intentionally configured to do.)
No one wants to have to explain to grandpa why all the faces in Dukes of Hazzard have been replaced by glans because he got a meme upscaler.
And low-res footage can look so much better using the same bitrate. Streaming keeps pushing codecs to the barely-tolerable limits of perceptible artifacts. Gimme 480p60 at whatever you’re using for 1080p30, and it should look transparent.
I don’t see the point of watching upscaled version of an old TV show. It ruins the atmosphere. It’s like playing the NES version of Tetris on an emulator and using HD textures for some reason.
Also if you’d want to upscale it anyway, why not provide source material and allow customers to use any upscaler they want?
Because Upscaling is incredibly resource hungry. You can’t do it on a 250€ “smart” TV with the calculation equivalent of a raspberry pi 2.
And then, sunk cost fallacy goes brrrrr.
And in a very real way, if you’re allowing customers access to source material so they can programmatically manipulate it at a time that online services are rapidly enshittifying, it’s contrary to their business goals. A ripper that upscales is probably trivially easy to use.
And plus, who knows what a client upscaler will hallucinate across multiple models and technology platforms. (Or may be intentionally configured to do.)
No one wants to have to explain to grandpa why all the faces in Dukes of Hazzard have been replaced by glans because he got a meme upscaler.
This better not awaken anything in me.jpeg
Dicks of Hazzard
🎵 Just good ol’ peens, never meanin’ no harm. Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. 🎵
If this is the quality you’re competing with… bet.
And low-res footage can look so much better using the same bitrate. Streaming keeps pushing codecs to the barely-tolerable limits of perceptible artifacts. Gimme 480p60 at whatever you’re using for 1080p30, and it should look transparent.