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Reference pictures: Mk IV Console (1996)

The clarity is remarkable, though I am curious to know if that's just down to having an original set of film negatives, or if they've been given a treatment of A.I. upscaling.
The grain visible on the time rotor in the first and second shots make me lean towards A.I. not being involved in this restoration...
 
No idea but I would suspect it is just a case of having been shot on film and having a good copy of the film to work from to take advantage of new electronic video resolution improvements
 
Steve Roberts remarked on Facebook they were doing it on a tight budget. so I'm taking that as they didn't have the budget to do any upscaling
 
BUT having said that and a closer look at the stills from the trailer, they do look alittle AIed... that'll be a shame if they have done that...
 
Having rewatched the trailer at its highest resolution and exported screenshots for further study in Image Viewer, I feel even more convinced this is simply the wonderful result of the production team having the access to the original negatives for scanning, and A.I. hasn't been involved at-all.

I'll post some other cropped screenshots later, but here's a good starting point:
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kingpin said:
Having rewatched the trailer at its highest resolution and exported screenshots for further study in Image Viewer, I feel even more convinced this is simply the wonderful result of the production team having the access to the original negatives for scanning, and A.I. hasn't been involved at-all.

I'll post some other cropped screenshots later, but here's a good starting point:
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AI would certainly ruin the entire thing with its crappy 'upscaling'.
 
I watched a whole YT video about the evolution of home media formats, and why original film cuts were so much higher quality. They pointed out that so-called 4k releases are often bad upscaling, and we really need to go back to the original film, and digitise it in the highest quality we can before the detail is lost to dirt, wear or the natural decay of the film-stock.
 
TheRiddler_Lord said:
TV Movie is entirely filmed on 35mm indeed. I tbh dunno why were fed with crappy upscaled 480 version in the past, but hey at least we can experience it in 4K now and of course it means the 4K TARDIS interior and exterior!
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I seem to remember, for previous releases, that the film cans were cited as either missing or unavailable.
 
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