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by sangofe » Sun Oct 11, 2026 12:40 am
Zebra wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2026 5:14 pm
It looks more like an upscale. But there's no ghosting, so I dunno.
If it was scanned from film, it should look a lot better.
It's got more image on the sides sometimes so can't be an upscale
M16U3L2015 wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2026 5:48 pm
I don't know if this is a new film scan or an AI upscale, but if they did it from the original film, they went crazy with the saturation and DNR.
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by Zebra » Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:11 pm
So, it really is a film scan, then? Only question is why it looks so bad. I wonder how the French team even got their hands on the film master that was previously thought to be lost or misplaced.
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by M16U3L2015 » Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:35 pm
Zebra wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:11 pm
So, it really is a film scan, then? Only question is why it looks so bad.
I think they did the same thing Funimation did with its DBZ remasters.
Those were also film scans (second or third-generation), but they applied aggressive noise reduction which caused a loss of detail in the image and oversaturated the colors.
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by sangofe » Mon Oct 12, 2026 1:24 am
Zebra wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:11 pm
So, it really is a film scan, then? Only question is why it looks so bad. I wonder how the French team even got their hands on the film master that was previously thought to be lost or misplaced.
Could be Toei that "remasterd" this.
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by Puto » Mon Oct 12, 2026 12:42 pm
M16U3L2015 wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:35 pm
Zebra wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:11 pm
So, it really is a film scan, then? Only question is why it looks so bad.
I think they did the same thing Funimation did with its DBZ remasters.
Those were also film scans (second or third-generation), but they applied aggressive noise reduction which caused a loss of detail in the image and oversaturated the colors.
Just to clear this up, the noise reduction and oversaturating the colours are two bad different things that were done separately, one is not a consequence of the other. DNR does not magically make the colours more saturated.
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by M16U3L2015 » Mon Oct 12, 2026 1:47 pm
I know, I should have specified that they are two different processes.
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by sangofe » Tue Oct 13, 2026 12:26 am
Puto wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2026 12:42 pm
M16U3L2015 wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:35 pm
Zebra wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:11 pm
So, it really is a film scan, then? Only question is why it looks so bad.
I think they did the same thing Funimation did with its DBZ remasters.
Those were also film scans (second or third-generation), but they applied aggressive noise reduction which caused a loss of detail in the image and oversaturated the colors.
Just to clear this up, the noise reduction and oversaturating the colours are two bad different things that were done separately, one is not a consequence of the other. DNR does not magically make the colours more saturated.
Now to find the version before this was done..
