Purchasing rights to old films and remastering them

[Alex_kaplan]

Today on TNT shared a link to a movie from YouTube remastered La India (1976) Mexico (4K), I'm very happy, finally this beautiful movie restored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvKOjUI0CA

That looks like an AI upscale of the DVD, heavily censored so it wouldn't get taken down or age restricted. It's no 4K (or even 1080p) remaster that's for sure. I can't even find the full DVD, just a rip of it.


I am certainly not an expert in this, only visually can determine the quality of the movie, but in the quality that I watched it 480 p - this is certainly the best in YouTube, yes agree this version is severely shortened, full movie https://adult.noodlemagazine.com/watch/ ... _169496060

[deadman]

That looks like an AI upscale of the DVD, heavily censored so it wouldn't get taken down or age restricted. It's no 4K (or even 1080p) remaster that's for sure. I can't even find the full DVD, just a rip of it.

I am certainly not an expert in this, only visually can determine the quality of the movie, but in the quality that I watched it 480 p - this is certainly the best in YouTube, yes agree this version is severely shortened, full movie https://adult.noodlemagazine.com/watch/ ... _169496060

I don't understand the total censorship. Those brief scenes where the young boy was shown getting intimate with his mother, yes, that would've violated YouTube's TOS. But the woman bathing for example didn't need to be cut. I guess they were just being overcautious.

You can see that AI plastic face effect. Also some chromatic distortion (color is off). That's how I know it's an upscale. Ghost could do a much better job than this guy. The user must own the DVD but he's an amateur when it comes to using the software. Keep in mind de-noising a video or getting rid of film grain makes the quality seem higher at first glance - but as you look more closely, you can often see detail is actually lost, things look softer and fuzzier than the unprocessed video.

If a true 1080p version shows up on YouTube, that means there's either a streaming 1080p web-dl available somewhere or a bluray release. If you think the online version is legit then definitely go looking for the source.

[Alex_kaplan]

That looks like an AI upscale of the DVD, heavily censored so it wouldn't get taken down or age restricted. It's no 4K (or even 1080p) remaster that's for sure. I can't even find the full DVD, just a rip of it.

I am certainly not an expert in this, only visually can determine the quality of the movie, but in the quality that I watched it 480 p - this is certainly the best in YouTube, yes agree this version is severely shortened, full movie https://adult.noodlemagazine.com/watch/ ... _169496060

I don't understand the total censorship. Those brief scenes where the young boy was shown getting intimate with his mother, yes, that would've violated YouTube's TOS. But the woman bathing for example didn't need to be cut. I guess they were just being overcautious.

You can see that AI plastic face effect. Also some chromatic distortion (color is off). That's how I know it's an upscale. Ghost could do a much better job than this guy. The user must own the DVD but he's an amateur when it comes to using the software. Keep in mind de-noising a video or getting rid of film grain makes the quality seem higher at first glance - but as you look more closely, you can often see detail is actually lost, things look softer and fuzzier than the unprocessed video.

If a true 1080p version shows up on YouTube, that means there's either a streaming 1080p web-dl available somewhere or a bluray release. If you think the online version is legit then definitely go looking for the source.

Yes, YouTube often blocks channels and videos that violate copyrights, (but a woman bathing, and she is an adult) would hardly be blocked for that, but I have never posted anything on YouTube. As for the source of the movie, I haven't found anything yet, the search didn't yield any results.I'll keep looking, maybe I'll find