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There is a remaster. It's quite good.
by throwanem 2y ago
There is a remaster. It's quite good.
- SG- 2y agoyes, I beleive the remaster uses AI upscaling.
- compsciphd 2y agothe remaster uses the masters that were made. i.e. film for the non CGI aspects (which is just film so scans nicely) and composited / fully CGI printed to the film, but that was all rendered at SD TV resolutions (so is effectively upscaled).
- TiredOfLife 2y agoYou beleive wrong.
- EndsOfnversion 2y agoThere are several issues with remastering Babylon 5: 1) the variable frame rate: live action is 24p anything with CG is effectively 60p (both in a 60i container). This is difficult to do in HD. 2) a lot of the source materials for the CG are scattered to the winds, and the surviving stuff is in semi-obscure formats, that make re-rendering expensive. A few people on youtube have posted fan restorations of the CG based on source-material that have fallen into their hands, and it looks pretty good… but I can’t see WB making the same effort to restore the CG further. Maybe as AI upscaling improves - it might look better. 3) Questions around 16:9 vs 4:3 framing. Either way - great show - but HD doesn’t do some of the aets any favours.
- throwanem 2y agoA full series remaster in 4:3 HD came out a few years ago. It looks a lot better than you seem to assume it would. You might want to check it out.