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Let's Enhance HD
About this video
A two-minute supercut of film and TV characters ordering a computer to 'enhance' a blurry image into a perfectly sharp one. It is a remaster of an earlier 2009 version.
Why it appears in the archive
HN uses it as a punchline in threads about image upscaling and super-resolution, where the movie trope has become partly real.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Reminds me of the ridiculous enhancement processes in Hollywood. Except this time... it's real. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Here is the ridiculous Let's Enhance supercut that all just became realistic: [VIDEO] (Created by the super talented duncanrobson)
Read original comment ↗I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I used to laugh so hard at those tv and movie scenes when they would "enhance" an image: [VIDEO] I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.
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