how do old videos get restored to high quality?

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i saw a video on youtube that was the old
McDonald’s Mac Tonight commercial from the 80s, but there was a version of it uploaded in 8k. how is it possible, considering the cameras that the commercial was shot on originally? wouldn’t the resolution program have to ‘make up’ what it thinks the details are? thanks in advance!

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Depends on what the old video is shot on. Things shot on film can be digitized in high resolutions because images captured with film have a ton of detail. An image captured by film has no pixels and is more like what the human eye sees (besides like film grain and stuff like that). 

Images captured by video cameras can be upscaled either by a hardware or software upscaler or now AI. The new detail has to be filled in though and never quite looks as good as film that is captured in high resolutions

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