> So I imagine all these AI upscaled film weren’t done for our benefit but to save streamers a bit of bandwidth. You may be onto something here. A 2-hour 4k mo

> So I imagine all these AI upscaled film weren’t done for our benefit but to save streamers a bit of bandwidth. You may be onto something here. A 2-hour 4k movie that’s already smooth and blobby encodes down to 10GB or so and doesn’t look so different from the full-fat Blu-ray. A good film transfer at 4k… it’ll start looking off when the target file’s under 30GB, if not sooner. [edit] though, on the other hand, they can do this well enough when they encode for streaming, from a good source, no need to start with something bad, you can just add one extra step to make it bad before encoding. Though then it invites comparison of your “high quality” (but actually awful looking) 4k streams to the much-better original source.