[mythtv-users] OT: 4K TV. But why (yet)?

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/2015 02:23 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
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>> Sorry, no.  The information isn't in the image.  When you upscale an
>> image to a higher resolution, you can employ all the fancy edge
>> detection and other enhancements you want, but you're extrapolating
>> and guessing when you do that.  What you're looking at is basically
>> equivalent to an artist's rendering.  It may look good, but it's not
>> information from the original image.  1080p upscaled to 4K is not real
>> 4K.
>
>
> Well, I suppose you'll never get a job working for NASA or the NSA or ...

NRO? (in general, the DOD).  In any event, using multiple images/frames
from multiple times/viewpoints to produce enhanced imagery is well
known in certain fields.  Look up the various fractal and differential
enhancement techniques with spatial and frequency domain methods
(and then start recalling how to use those physics degrees).  That your
TV does not currently have the computational power to perform all
that may mean you need a better TV!  (I think nvidia is claiming their
shield TV box has a 256 core maxwell GPU inside, maybe it is a
start).