Why some "remastered" music videos look awful
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Tom Scott examines why many YouTube music video remasters from the 2010s look terrible, explaining how upscaling standard-definition analog tape to high definition often degrades quality, and concludes that the HD remasters are often worse than the originals.
From the video
Answers: Why do HD remastered music videos on YouTube look so bad?
- music video remasters
- standard definition vs high definition
- analog tape archiving
- deinterlacing video
- upscaling archival footage
What it concludes
- Recreating music video edits in 4K using surviving 4K scans often results in missing footage and timing discrepancies.
- Upgrading a professional definition videotape to HD via deinterlacing improves appearance compared to analog signals, but lacks original sharpness.
- The 2019 HD remaster of Smash Mouth's All Star looks worse than the original standard definition video due to botched upscaling and deinterlacing.
- Changing the historical record through poor HD remasters of classic music videos makes them worse than the original standard definition versions.
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