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| - Ah, digital restoration and remastering — a wonderful thing, really. It cleans up the picture quality, restores faded colors, gets the hisses and pops out of the soundtrack, oversaturates the colors, erases or thins out lines... Wait, what?! Digital restoration tampering with the original footage? Blatant Lies, you say? Well, yeah, no, it's actually pretty true. Digital restoration is an expensive, time-consuming process. It's expensive, takes a long time, requires careful attention and care...and did we mention it was expensive? Examples of Digital Destruction include:
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| - Ah, digital restoration and remastering — a wonderful thing, really. It cleans up the picture quality, restores faded colors, gets the hisses and pops out of the soundtrack, oversaturates the colors, erases or thins out lines... Wait, what?! Digital restoration tampering with the original footage? Blatant Lies, you say? Well, yeah, no, it's actually pretty true. Digital restoration is an expensive, time-consuming process. It's expensive, takes a long time, requires careful attention and care...and did we mention it was expensive? Digital destruction is often the result of people in general having the tendency to want to just get the stuff out as quickly as possible, all with a "digitally restored/digitally remastered" label stamped on it to maximize profits. That, or They Just Didn't Care. Or worse, they didn't even know what harm they were doing to begin with. Or in some cases, the availible tech is very difficult to get good results from (ask a Photoshop or video pro and they'll tell you things like noise reduction are hard to do without loss of detail). Digital Destruction comes in several forms and can vary-from oversharpening to flat-out erasing lines of artwork in cartoons, removing whole sounds or dialogue, oversaturating the colors, Moire Patterns (fuzzy electrical patterns scattering around an image or drawing), upping the contrast, etc. All the same, stuff like this happens a lot with restored older films and especially older cartoons...and on occasion, this even happens (or happened) to newer cartoons (as mentioned by Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy creator Danny Antonucci here). Music is not exempt. With today's popular music lacking on dynamic range even outside of radio (stonewalling), remasterings of old classic pop music may be adjusted to be at equal volume to new pop music, losing the original dynamic range. The result sounds bland and has less information than the original. For more info, see the Loudness War. Naturally, this is a great source of contempt for collectors, purists, and even the common customer alike (the ones that are savvy enough to be aware of it, anyways). It's the total opposite of a "great" restoration, in a nutshell. The Trope Namer is this article from John Kricfalusi's blog, in which he feels the restorations of old cartoons are actually ruining them, rather than making them better. (The specific issues he complains about result from over-zealous application of certain adjustments, namely color saturation and sharpening.) Also see They Just Didn't Care. Compare Remaster. For the video game equivalent of this trope, see Porting Disaster. In particularly bad instances of this, to preserve the way the footage originally looked you gotta Keep Circulating the Tapes. Also see Visual Compression. Examples of Digital Destruction include:
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