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While the popular Original Series and The Next Generation were mostly shot on film, the mid 90s DS9 had its visual effects shots (space battles and such) shot on video.
While you can rescan analog film at a higher resolution, video is digital and can't be rescanned. This makes it much costlier to remaster this TV show, which is one of the reasons why it hasn't happened.
This is where neural networks could come in, I thought. With tools like AI Gigapixel, I knew it might be possible the low definition frames of DS9 can be scaled up to a higher definition such as 1080p or 4K. It would never be the same as proper remastering, but it would a step in the good direction.
So I tried my hand at frame or two, to see what it could do. The results were great. AI Gigapixel uses neural networks trained on real photos. So while it did okay with upscaling the video game renders of Final Fantasy, it did amazing upscaling real-life footage and the bigger budget CGI effects of DS9.
Source: https://captrobau.blogspot.com/2019/03/remastering-star-trek-deep-space-nine.html
(Score: 1) by ensigndna on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:22AM (2 children)
While an improvement over the original in some ways, it's clear that it's been altered and has a certain synthetic quality to it that I find displeasing.... colors, shading, motion, everything is just a little off....
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:28AM
Yeah, but it's some random guy rather than a commercial entity here. I'd expect putting more talent, money, and effort into the project would show better results, which was kind of his point.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Wednesday March 20 2019, @01:35AM
So it would fit in perfectly with every other modern show on TV. :P