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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Is there a "fan remaster" of the old shows floating around?

I'm not sure what visual issues their releases have, but Netflix sometimes makes similar corrections themselves. Amazon's good about it too, with their head hanging out in some old transcoding forums like Doom9.

In my experience, other streamers do not :(


...If there's not, perhaps this is the time? I have some Vapoursynth experience to lend.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only one that exites me is DS9:Redefined. They're capturing and stacking the LaserDisc releases and the results are significantly cleaner and more detailed than the DVD releases. They had video examples that looked amazing, but Vimeo has now sadly removed them (were up just a couple months ago - probably Paramount abusing copyright strike).

They have reportedly uploaded all of the raw LaserDisc rips for DS9 and Voyager to Archive.org but have not yet made that link public. When they do, I expect a number of very high quality upscale projects will appear.

Latest blog entry with some side-by side still images. https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/the-colors-duke-the-colors/

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh that’s awesome! That’s what I was looking for, thanks.

I should get involved… or at least get them from Avisynth to Vapoursynth, so everything’s done in F32 and they get access to newer filters. Vapoursynth, being Python, is also great for hooking into all sorts of CV/PyTorch processing libraries, so it could be a single replicable pipe for laserdisc rip > upscale.