Post #769146
2026-03-23 17:51 UTC
Oh god... someone linked a 4k version of Bjork's All Is Full Of Love - one of my favourite music videos which was definitely shot in SD.
Comparing it to an SD upload from 18 years ago I can see the 4k version's upscaling AI is trying to make sense of phantom motions caused by the compression artefacts of the previous upload. Ugh!
Can we please not just eat all of the pixels of such beautiful art? And certainly not make up a bunch of new ones...
I am forever cursed to notice graphical artefacts everybody else ignores.
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@niq@pony.social 2026-03-23 22:16
Fuck it, I'm going down the rabbit hole... After some digging I found this upload from the VFX company that looks to be a relatively uncompressed SD version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbGSy6PKOb0 Mmm delicious jaggies. I think watching this on an SD CRT TV looked fine but the transfer to youtube maybe needed a blur pass to look right. But jaggies is good it means we're seeing the original pixels.