The VE From Start to Finish

[Fu Manchu]

The Billion Dollar Baby.
The story of Holdens design and build process with the VE.
A great doco worth watching if you love yours.

 

[Skylarking]

I liked the video but with video quality of 640x360@25fps, it is really sub standard in todays term

Don't know who loaded the above video but it's a pity Holden hasn't bothered to upload many of their videos onto youtube at a minimum full HD resolutions for future viewing pleasure. Such stuff will likely fall by the wayside and be lost to us all

 

[Derekthetree]

I liked the video but with video quality of 640x360@25fps, it is really sub standard in todays term

Don't know who loaded the above video but it's a pity Holden hasn't bothered to upload many of their videos onto youtube at a minimum full HD resolutions for future viewing pleasure. Such stuff will likely fall by the wayside and be lost to us all

From the thumbnail the video looks American who took a long time embrace non-grainy vision.
Even then HD on Youtube was only brought in in 2009 seemingly, and lots of content creators wouldn't have the camera equipment.

Need someone to AI algorithm it up!

I'm sure the Holden archives there is plenty of original video content, perhaps even negatives to do a proper remaster. They need to give it to one of the moving picture museums.
Like this stuff
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/general-motors-holden

 

[BlackVXGTS]

There is a video: "Steel to Road - Building Holden VE Commodore FULL VERSION.mp4 - that's quite good, even though not HD quality.

 

[Skylarking]

^ Yeah that’s better quality at 854x480@30fps but again pity they upload such when the originals are much better and will be lost to neglect over time or self combustion if cellulose as much of the early stuff is. It’s sad really… and the copyright owners should hold their heads in shame allowing the original source to be lost to the ravages of time.

You see this with movie studios doing this with their old block busters of the 50’s and 60’s. All this old stuff was filmed on 70mm (panavision) and is ideal for easy 8k restoration. But the studios simply have no desire in running an automated process to do such and wont allow others to do it* either, all because it’s their copyright and they are happy for it to die with the old enthusiasts

* Many Star Trek Deep Space 9 fans would buy the box set on BD should it be available at reasonable price but the studio simply isn’t interested. One fan has actually done a DS9 4K AI upscaling using his DVD collection as the source but womt make the 4K video available to other owners of the DVD box set because of copyright and the fear of loosing everything via lawsuits.… That’s fair enough but he has provided instructions on how other fans can duplicate his effort. Sadly it’s a lengthy and complex task which ain’t environmentally efficient for everyone to be running their pc’s for months churning the same frames out of their DVD collection…

 

[Derekthetree]

* Many Star Trek Deep Space 9 fans would buy the box set on BD should it be available at reasonable price but the studio simply isn’t interested. One fan has actually done a DS9 4K AI upscaling using his DVD collection as the source but womt make the 4K video available to other owners of the DVD box set because of copyright and the fear of loosing everything via lawsuits.… That’s fair enough but he has provided instructions on how other fans can duplicate his effort. Sadly it’s a lengthy and complex task which ain’t environmentally efficient for everyone to be running their pc’s for months churning the same frames out of their DVD collection…

I'm rewatching DS9 right now.

To be fair a bluray player and modern TV does a pretty good job in upscaling onto a 4K display. There are some AI routines in Tvs that recognise low res sources and do some interpolation themselves.
Its not TNG blu ray quality, but better than a SD, 4:3, 90s American show deserves to look!

 

[Skylarking]

To be fair a bluray player and modern TV does a pretty good job in upscaling onto a 4K display. There are some AI routines in Tvs that recognise low res sources and do some interpolation themselves.
Its not TNG blu ray quality, but better than a SD, 4:3, 90s American show deserves to look!

If your BD player is upscalimg to FHD and then the TV is up scaling to UHD, in real time, the picture will have lots of artefacts. Even the newest UHD TV’s struggle with SD broadcast which still look like crap…

The difference between real-time upscaling and off-air upscaling is like chalk and cheese. I’d rather have source material upscaled of-air and burnt to disc to be watched at its new native resolution rather than post processed twice. And many BD players don’t have source direct video output to allow the tv to do all the scaling so double processing is difficult to avoid of a UHD TV

But as I get older and the eyesight gets worse, it becomes more academic with each year that passes