Similar to a peeve of mine - old TV shows incorrectly “up rendered” for HDMI. There is pixelation, color problems, lots of things. Maybe it’s just my cable provider.
Yup, the quality in how these programs get upscaled for HD is all over the map. There's a lot of examples of people on Youtube and archive.org who are ripping their personal collections of old content who are doing this, I would say, correctly.
Here's one of my favorite examples of archiving being done "right":
Any HN folks know of resources/guides for doing this “right”? I’ve had great luck restoring images and would like to try my hand at video. My dream is that there are tools which can take advantage of temporal changes to get better results.
For some shows like Seinfeld, the widescreen "HD remastered" version show extras standing in for the shows star in some scenes. There is no way to remove this, as the original narrower 4:3 aspect ratio would only show part of their hair.
Me to my wife: "Is this show old? Like from the 90s? I can see the dithering on it."
Have to agree. Along with the practice of cropping original 4:3's to 16:9/Letterbox.