Because there's no bullshit like this preventing me from sharing with family who are overseas (gets really fun when we want to watch something together but it's available in their country but not mine). Because I can download the content and store it locally for trips. Because I can now access a wider selection of content than Netflix offers.
It's not cheap, but the fact that I and other commenters here are willing to pay that money and spend the effort of setting up piracy engines is a pretty loud signal that the entertainment market has failed. Again.
There was a golden age when Netflix had a great catalog and didn't engage in dark patterns. It's long gone, and the streaming industry has become worse than the cable tv industry. I'm happy paying multiples of the netflix subscription cost for my piracy setup just to have the convenience and ownership of the content.
> I don't think an AI freely writing lines within the game is a good idea if the developers want to be certain that it won't ever produce questionable text
On the other hand, there's a plethora of people who are fed up with corporate/legal drones sanitising entertainment media into complete boredom and want a breath of life or 'questionable text'
Also see: Disney tanking previously massively profitable franchises by sanitising and politically-correcting them to the complete disdain of the core fanbases.
Also see: Disney tanking previously massively profitable franchises by sanitising and politically-correcting them
Like what? The Little Mermaid is the only Disney example I can think of that triggered online backlash, and it's not even out yet. Either way, it doesn't matter, since their primary goal is to extend their IP rights.
Film has become vastly inferior to digital both in stills and cinema if we're talking about technical aspects like dynamic range and colour accuracy.
The problem is, just like with CGI which has gotten pretty good at modelling light transport, it feels off because it's too clean and clear. Digital it's too good at capturing reality. Film introduces a bunch of artefacts and limitations that 'look' nicer than accurately captured reality. In part this might be because most of us grew up watching cinema styled that way, in part because it leaves more room for the brain to compensate for those limitations with imagination.
With the advent of easily available stylisation AI trained on film, we should see digital close that gap any time now.
Yes? There's a ton of AI upscales coming out and they're becoming really good; plenty examples on youtube including iconic scenes from iconic movies. Perhaps another 12 months max before AI upscales go from enthusiast/amateur remaster community to commercial.
It's what most of those "HD remasters" of film are doing. (Well, sometimes it's a human or a chemical/mechanical process rather than an "AI", but either way you're fabricating details out of noise and/or thin air).
I suspect that getting objective improvements from a 4K to 8K film scan would require extremely well-produced film and probably a large-format film like 70mm.
