They already are but just look into what you’re downloading. It’s been an issue with anime for years already. Even in the post HD era most anime is an odd resolution around like 900p. This led to many careless releases where uploaders either simply downscaled to 720p or upscaled to 1080p without any extra work, which created artifacts, ringing, etc. https://blog.kageru.moe/legacy/resolutions.html for more info
For legacy/pre-hd anime studios overwhelmingly lazily upscaled 480p or 576p dvd releases to 1080p for Blu-ray releases. This resulted in a lot of the problems you see with lazy AI upscales of non animation content: while the overall image appeared sharper there was a loss of finer detail, grain, etc. Some people prefer the sharper image over the more detailed image, some prefer the original with more fidelity. Of course, a proper remaster done with care by hand by an expert would’ve been great and probably balanced these issues but that’s not what they did 99% of the time, they just shit it through a hardware upscaler (as software ones didn’t exist yet). See azumanga daioh, love com, hunter x hunter 1999 version, etc
It sucks because it makes the whole automated stack downloading a bit of a pain
Damn right!
Now how long before our web rips are polluted with this nonsense 🤔
They already are but just look into what you’re downloading. It’s been an issue with anime for years already. Even in the post HD era most anime is an odd resolution around like 900p. This led to many careless releases where uploaders either simply downscaled to 720p or upscaled to 1080p without any extra work, which created artifacts, ringing, etc. https://blog.kageru.moe/legacy/resolutions.html for more info
For legacy/pre-hd anime studios overwhelmingly lazily upscaled 480p or 576p dvd releases to 1080p for Blu-ray releases. This resulted in a lot of the problems you see with lazy AI upscales of non animation content: while the overall image appeared sharper there was a loss of finer detail, grain, etc. Some people prefer the sharper image over the more detailed image, some prefer the original with more fidelity. Of course, a proper remaster done with care by hand by an expert would’ve been great and probably balanced these issues but that’s not what they did 99% of the time, they just shit it through a hardware upscaler (as software ones didn’t exist yet). See azumanga daioh, love com, hunter x hunter 1999 version, etc
It sucks because it makes the whole automated stack downloading a bit of a pain