26-08-2023, 03:40 PM
(26-08-2023, 12:52 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: Almost certainly upscaled I'd have thought, unless a fresh tape has been found from somewhere with a very pristine recording... Tapes do turn up in strange places sometimes (as the Dr Who recoveries will tell you) but even then why would one have that on it?The visuals in some of the 1990 BBC 2 ones were filmed, but of course the actual idents were created on video. In that case of course using film enabled alternative speeds for idents like paint
Artificial AI/Upscaling can generate good results but I feel you need to monitor it/intervene sometimes otherwise you end up with something that looks worse than what you started with.
Don't think there were any channels that did their idents on film? As above, what would be the point?
The best copy that there'll be will be the master tape, and that won't be anything better than 576x720....probably. It being BSB which was D-MAC potentially they might have made them future proofed for HD-MAC and somehow have been made 1152x1440?
I'm not sure what sort of tape they'd have used at BSB, possibly an early digital format like D1?