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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJP" data-source="post: 344343" data-attributes="member: 5151">I agree with a lot Matthew Blaisdel said.But it's not a simple AI upscale for everything.   From what I understand, a simple AI upscale was only applied to the main title of season 10 (and also the following years).The episodes themselves were remastered from the earliest available master, which is the answer print.  The problem with seasons 10 (DVD count) and beyond, however, is that no classic answer print (in terms of a traditionally edited film elements) exists because Lorimar did all the editing on the Ediflex, an early video editing system, at the time.  The AI software now used to  digitize that answer print automatically improves the picture quality in a way that the result becomes visually comparable to a classic answer print.  I agree with Matthew Blaisdel that digitizing the original film elements would have been a lot better because software-generated improvements will always lead to a loss of detail and make human skin appear softened while they create an artificial over-sharpness of the picture at the same time, hence the slightly unnatural overall look.  It will be interesting to see what happens when it comes to details like newspapers placed as props here and there or license plates on picture cars.  All these little details are legible quite well whenever the picture is remastered from a traditional answer print (like in the first nine seasons).  From that standpoint, I do understand the criticism and also feel uneasy about the result.However, since there is no traditional answer print available for these seasons, there's simply no other option.  Okay, I hear some of you say, "the original picture negative is still available", but the OPN is unedited in this case because the editing was entirely done on video.  The only way to treat seasons 10 and beyond for an equal result as the earlier seasons would have been to reconstruct the whole editing process from scratch...  Even I, as a quality purist, see why this is not a viable idea.  It is not only a super-lengthy and hyper-expensive process, but also a process in which hundreds of mistakes are more than likely to happen in each episode because the new editors would basically have to recreate every cut in every single scene.  It is unrealistic to think that this could actually work.  As disappointing as this may be in a way, the way of remastering WB chose for season 10 and beyond seems to be the only realistic option, at least from today's technical standards.What also worries me, though, is that recreating the credits is also prone to errors, whether these be typos. the selection of the wrong font or the exact position of the text elements."Dallas" may be quite easy as far as fonts are concerned, though, because they are generic, but I wonder what will happen when it comes to remastering "Knots Landing" and "Falcon Crest".   Both these shows used individually designed or significantly modified lettering at least for the show title in some seasons, which are hard to reconstruct, let alone the falcon logo from "Falcon Crest" with all its different shapes and color shades over the various seasons.But we will see if that happens and what happens.</blockquote>

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