There's a 4K transfer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jap-UBbmPsw . Loo...

thaliaarchi · 2024-01-01T10:30:59 1704105059

Film can be physically re-scanned at a higher digital resolution—no AI required. The title says “4k Film Transfer”, which suggests this.

laborcontract · 2024-01-01T08:14:42 1704096882

Argument against it being a pure AI upres is that the signage at 3:05 accurately says "Podunk Landing" and "Tickets".

speps · 2024-01-01T09:42:36 1704102156

AI super resolution can do text with no issues, it "only" "fills in" the missing pixels so the overall shape of things is the same, just smoother.

8organicbits · 2024-01-01T16:06:25 1704125185

That approach is problematic with text. If you take a blurry version of the word "apple", you can't be sure if the text should be "apple" or "appie" as the "i" and "l" look too similar when blurred. Some scanners do this to get clean crisp letters and end up fixing typos or making other substitutions. "Filling in pixels" is inherently guesswork and it's certainly not "issue free".

speps · 2024-01-01T21:48:09 1704145689

Agreed, but what I replied to implied that there would be issues like Stable Diffusion not being able to write words correctly.