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[Legend]

This is pushing pretty close to real time upscaling from 640x480 to 2880x1920.

You found another competitor to DLSS!  

It'll be really awesome once this tech is built into TVs. Watch whatever you want and it'll always look great. Play old video games like you remember them.

[the-pi-guy]

You found another competitor to DLSS!  

It'll be really awesome once this tech is built into TVs. Watch whatever you want and it'll always look great. Play old video games like you remember them.

Testing some more, it's fantastic for animation. But none of the settings look particularly good for live action.

It recreated a lot of things incredibly well, like it recreated a brick wall. If it did everything that well, it would be fantastic. But a lot of it looks oddly poor.

On the animation front, Video2x seems to be pretty comparable to Topaz. But it's way behind on the live action side.


I might end up having to get Topaz after all.  

[Legend]

$300 for the current version but yours forever? That's not too bad if it saves you a lot of time.

[darkknightkryta]

Alright, after the pain in the dog that was X-men the Animated Series DVD, I think I found the best de-interlacer.  Free too.

Hybrid 2024.09.29.1 Free Download - VideoHelp

[Legend]

Not video file manipulation per say but I built my own video server  

German Night is tomorrow and I wanted to play random German music on my tv without youtube ads. So I built a from scratch web app to do that on my samsung tv. Can jump from video to video seamlessly. (ok I just asked chatgpt to make it for me, but I still had to guide it a lot)

[the-pi-guy]

Not video file manipulation per say but I built my own video server  

This thread needs a better name, but I have no idea what to call it.

[the-pi-guy]

This is bizarrely the best and the worst time to get into physical media.

A lot of consolidation, and a dying industry.

Yet there's been a ton of great stuff. House looks to be getting a blu-ray release. Monk got one, Psych, Suits, Columbo, Succession.

4k releases for Friends, Seinfeld.  

[Legend]

I just wish movies were cheaper. I think it used to be $15 if you bought blurays on the first week. Now I only really see them for $30 and why would I pay that unless I loved the movie?

For example if Disney+ and Hulu didn't exist and Alien Romulus was $20 (I know inflation exists) I'd buy it for sure. Would love to own every Alien movie.

[the-pi-guy]

I had mentioned that it would be cool to have physical media for like an itunes distribution service. Be able to special order discs, and get deliveries; never have stuff go out of print, all those nice benefits.

What I didn't realize at the time, is that it already effectively exists. Lots of releases are Manufactured On Demand (MOD) releases. Instead of having big prints of thousands/millions of copies, they make small quantities and just press more when there's demand. 

It's been becoming a lot more common in the past year or two. 

A lot of Disney/Fox, Warner Bros movies and TV shows are getting re-released as MOD. 

Paramount's House MD blu-ray that is getting released is a MOD release. Sony's Seinfeld release is a MOD release. 

Unfortunately it seems to mean fewer sales, but less risk for releases. 

[the-pi-guy]

It seems like Sony and Warner Archive are probably the better restorers for movies/TV shows.

It's interesting hearing people talk about those two, as someone with not a lot of experience.

There was a lot of confidence in the Seinfeld release, especially compared to Warner Home's Friends release, and it seems to be a great release.

[Legend]

I had mentioned that it would be cool to have physical media for like an itunes distribution service. Be able to special order discs, and get deliveries; never have stuff go out of print, all those nice benefits.

What I didn't realize at the time, is that it already effectively exists. Lots of releases are Manufactured On Demand (MOD) releases. Instead of having big prints of thousands/millions of copies, they make small quantities and just press more when there's demand.

It's been becoming a lot more common in the past year or two.

A lot of Disney/Fox, Warner Bros movies and TV shows are getting re-released as MOD.

Paramount's House MD blu-ray that is getting released is a MOD release. Sony's Seinfeld release is a MOD release.

Unfortunately it seems to mean fewer sales, but less risk for releases.

Saved many books. Great if it saves blurays.

[the-pi-guy]

I just wish movies were cheaper. I think it used to be $15 if you bought blurays on the first week. Now I only really see them for $30 and why would I pay that unless I loved the movie?

For example if Disney+ and Hulu didn't exist and Alien Romulus was $20 (I know inflation exists) I'd buy it for sure. Would love to own every Alien movie.

I totally get that.

It's harder to justify buying movies. TV shows i think are easier value wise.

If it's a movie I would've seen in theaters, I feel like I can justify spending $30 on it, since I didn't spend $30 at the theater.

But I usually just wait for sales. A lot of these, you can eventually find for $10-$15 for the 4k version. Although there's plenty of stuff that seems to bottom out at $20 instead. But that's not optimal in any way. I'm patient though. 

[the-pi-guy]

I'm just going to throw this here.

TV shows and movies I'm looking forward to:

- Sound Euphonium S1 (last week actually)
- A Place Further Than the Universe (Feb 25th)
- SPY x Family Season 2 (March 4th)
- The Apothecary Diaries Season 1 (March 25)
- House MD (TBA)
- Superman (2025)


Been a bunch of interesting anime announcements lately.

[Legend]

Should I back up all my old family videos to an ssd? Those tapes get worse with age right?

I know my mom did something around 2016 but I don't know what happened to that or if she finished.

[the-pi-guy]

Should I back up all my old family videos to an ssd? Those tapes get worse with age right?

I know my mom did something around 2016 but I don't know what happened to that or if she finished.

VHS tapes? 
The tapes degrade, but I think I'd be more worried about the players degrading too.  

I was trying to back up some VHS tapes for my in-laws, and only got through 3 before the VCR stopped working.