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Ryuichi Sakamoto ・Tong Poo, original composition for Opus
Go see in theaters if you can, I cried the entire time.
@bethlyonsidx:
What is your hidden talent and can you show us?
H: i can juggle?
The upscaling of old cartoons is definitely a good use for AI. On that note, it could work wonders in terms of upscaling old concert footage and theater bootlegs well.
For example: As a huge Pink Floyd fan, it does kind of bum me out that the best and definitive way to experience Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall is the live concert tour from 1980-81, which is also nearly impossible to watch--the band filmed the Earls Court shows but they have never been released, and they will never be released as an official concert film until Roger Waters and David Gilmour agree on a release, which... is never going to happen.
(The band gave a few reasons behind the footage's lack of release--the footage was too dark and didn't capture the band well, the footage was destroyed, only a few clips were actually filmed, etc.--but fans know the band has the entire show filmed since many clips have resurfaced over the years.)
So currently, the only way of watching The Wall Tour is via low-resolution multicam bootlegs filmed at the time and having gone through 40+ years of wear. But now that we have all this cool new tech, it's just a matter of restoring the bootlegs by upscaling them to 1080p, removing some of the grain, and brightening the colors.
Such a technology could also work for old videos filmed of Broadway shows, including shows that are not being performed anymore. I think we'll be seeing a lot of these in the near future.
Hopefully not a controversial take? The fact that people are able to AI-upscale and clean up older animations and audio to be ever so closer to Good As New/Studio Quality is genuinely magical.
I love being alive in a world where all 3 seasons of Gargoyles or coutless obscure anime can be cleaned to look better than the old jittery vhs-ripped dvd or laserdisc releases. AI for media restoration, as in preservation of art, should be celebrated.