Correct me if I’m wrong, but…there are actual high resolution blu-rays of TNG because the show was shot on film and the original reels still exist, while DS9 and Voyager were shot on tape so good old NTSC 480i is the best we’ve got. So would hte above image be upscaled via AI or something?
On a related note, JMS had the foresight to film Babylon 5 in 16:9 format which was cropped to 4:3, so the show does exist in widescreen, though I understand it isn’t in any particular kind of HD, especially the CGI space scenes.
As far as I’m aware, you are correct. However the capability to upscale a video well enough has been around in the home since at least when Nvidia released the Shield with its AI upscale like 6 years ago. I rewatched DS9 and Voyager switching it on and off and it did a good enough job back then to trick me into thinking it was HD. Since then it’s just gotten better. Maybe the picture of Be’Lana is a photograph that was taken on set or a frame that used generative AI to upscale it. It’s still very sharp from what I remember watching on TV when it aired.
Although in this case it would be sort of like putting a condom on an extremely realistic dildo that didn’t know it was a dildo.
I’m bad at metaphors.
I’ve never seen HD B’lana
Correct me if I’m wrong, but…there are actual high resolution blu-rays of TNG because the show was shot on film and the original reels still exist, while DS9 and Voyager were shot on tape so good old NTSC 480i is the best we’ve got. So would hte above image be upscaled via AI or something?
On a related note, JMS had the foresight to film Babylon 5 in 16:9 format which was cropped to 4:3, so the show does exist in widescreen, though I understand it isn’t in any particular kind of HD, especially the CGI space scenes.
As far as I’m aware, you are correct. However the capability to upscale a video well enough has been around in the home since at least when Nvidia released the Shield with its AI upscale like 6 years ago. I rewatched DS9 and Voyager switching it on and off and it did a good enough job back then to trick me into thinking it was HD. Since then it’s just gotten better. Maybe the picture of Be’Lana is a photograph that was taken on set or a frame that used generative AI to upscale it. It’s still very sharp from what I remember watching on TV when it aired.
The image above is an animated GIF though, so it would have to have been taken from a video source.