“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good.
The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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These screengrabs are all from s01e01.
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http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-different-world-upscaling-is-not-good.html
the one model that worked really well only worked really well on: birds.
no text. no skyscrapers, no water, no trees, nothing else. but it did feathers just fine.