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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Old video was shot on analog film up to a certain point in time. Film has had much higher image quality than digital until very recently. Restoring it means scanning/photographing it, running some digital cleanup and color correction.
Old analog TV was not able to show all this information, but the image data is there on the film, in very high resolution.
Where it gets really bad is TV productions in the late 90s/early 2000s. Some of these were recorded digitally, and there is no way to extract more information from it.
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