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I'm looking for the best anti-aliasing method to play The Witcher 3 on my native 1080p monitor. I try to avoid upscaling AA's at 1080p, as I know it will upscale from a much lower resolution than 1080p. Thus damaging the image quality. The only one non-upscaling AA in the game is FXAA, which looks terrible. How does TAAU look at 1080p. Does the image quality take much of a hit like using DLSS at native 1080p. Let me know? Also explain TAAU to me please and from what resolution it upscales to 1080p please?

Does that exist? The problem is its really blurry and kinda pixelated pictures, so a way to "unblur" would be great as well, im not sure it exists though? i randomly tried img.upscaler which wasn't that bad but it did nothing about the blur and the pixelation was also almost untouched... basically it did an ok upscale job, missing the "AI" completely... Thing is if a paid program is the only option and not too expensive id do it, but from what im seeing most "AI upscaling" is a scam... but i know it exists, ive seen "hd" videos made from old 80s footage (laserdisc) with excellent image quality, and i would just want to do still pictures for now. So what are my options here?

AMD has long needed FidelityFX Super Resolution to be competitive with Nvidia in ray tracing performance, and now that it’s finally here, could it possibly put up a fight? Does it have to? Thanks to 3kliksphilip for permission to use clips from his excellent DLSS low-res video:

How does a HD CRT tv compare to today's HDR OLED TVs, maybe even high-end Plasma, and 8K TVs? Brightness output, contrast, color, and motion performance. Compare from HDR sources such as 4K Blu-ray, streaming, and gaming, also from lower fidelity upscaled sources and older media. Could be a good video for @LinusTech to do. Would love to know how an HD CRT tv or monitor stacks up against modern TV tech. It would be cool to see some discussion about what you lose (like HDR and higher resolution support) vs what you gain (no need to upscale, better motion resolution, no input lag)

Hi All I'm thinking about upscaling my Plex library, starting small and seeing which things I can upscale that would be worth it, denoising etc with AI would be great too. Probably not going to go crazy but would like to experiment and upscale some favourites I may rewatch every so often. I'm trying Topaz at the moment but quickly realised that it's only using CPU and barely touching the GPU. The preview is looking better and I have a 3950x but even so, using my GPU would make this so much faster. I had a look online and found multiple threads stating that this is a limitation and that they're hoping to arrange this in time but that their customer service was also terrible etc.. A "workaround" depending on your workflow was to have concurrent conversions running. People had recommended certain other services but I wondered what your thoughts on this were? It seemed like the other services could use the GPU to upscale but don't have a solid AI to clean up the image as well. Is there a comparable service that will use the GPU effectively and what are the trade-offs you have encountered?

Got plenty of old DVD's and recently got gifted a huge set of like 20+ BluRay movies. My old DVD player is likely on its last legs as it's making weird noises from time to time + it'd like to watch my movies at 4K rather than the 1080p or whatever quality it is on old DVD's. First question. How does DVD upscaling work? Multiple players I've seen that advertise such a feature that footage is upscaled to 4K live. What sort of upscaling is it? Is there a noticeable upgrade to normal DVD quality and how does it work. As I am interested in that feature, are there any media players that can upscale my movies PLUS play both DVD and BluRay disks? Seems like either its DVD upscaling or bluray. Saw a different player that can play both DVD and BluRay but didn't have this "upscaling" technology. Is it worth it or all just a bunch of marketing speak?

Anyone done comparisons or heard whether the new Nvidia Super Resolution is better, the same, or worse than the AI upscaling provided by the Nvidia Shield?

Just saw an ad for this product First of all they claim that it's essentially a plug in graphics card which makes no sense if you know what a graphics card is. I did a little digging and found out that it's essentially an HDMI post processing thing. It claims to upscale, and add antialiasing which kind of makes sense, but most modern TV's do this anyways so your milage may vary depending on what hardware you are actually running in the first place. But then get this; it also claims to add depth of field effects. Correct me if I'm wrong, but being someone who has spent a good deal of time messing with reshade, I know that you need access to the depth buffer within the graphics api to actually get anything close to good depth of field. So I'm really curious if anyone knows more about how the apparent DOF works on this thing or if that claim is totally offbase.

Hello everyone, today I will be showing you a cool new trick to upscale video, I've used old LTT videos as an example, and they look much better than the original. In the first image I attached, you can see that the video I am converting is in 720 HD. Ouch (especially since it was streamed in 2019). but a perfect video resolution for today's showcase. as you can only make a difference when upscaling videos that are just regular HD to full HD, or 4k. Now it's time to use a tool called Topaz Video Enhance AI. it's a tool that allows you to AI upscale videos. (Note: Requires high power computer, and it's also slow, even on my RTX 2080 upscaling the video I'm going to use to 4k would take 28 Hours! you can get it here: https://topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai/ It has a 30 day free trial, but then you need to pay $200 for a full key if you want to continue using it. Anyway, once you have fired it up, click in the blue outline to select your video. For best results, I recommend using the Gaia-HQ setting for any HD videos. anyway, select the preset to 4k UHD and hit the camera icon at the top with a little eye on it, this will allow you to preview the next 30 frames of a video and compare them for the best setup. The video is 30fps (double ouch) so I have about a second of video to compare. The difference between the original and the upscaled video are quite apparent, and astronomically better, (surprised me). original is on the left, upscaled is on the right. Edit: Another comparison, you can see the difference in the detail especially when you look at his hair. (Also the ETA is matching my calculations, which were made earlier before the ETA so, is this going to make every video look perfect? no. Is it going to make things look better? yes. edit: I calculated the exact time it would take to convert this video on my hardware and it would take a little over a day, not counting other apps I would be using. The upscaler does not do as well with videos that are lower quality than 720p. It can have a slight improvement on videos that are 480p, but 360p and below will not yield good results. Hope you enjoyed! p.s. Make sure that you have the latest graphics drivers for your hardware before converting video. I have also decided to convert the video and will leave a download link when the conversion completes. Update: I have converted the video successfully, although you can easily notice some artifacts, especially on Linus' face. Here is the video https://mega.nz/file/INBUXADY#JeJh3dPSowNYDy-XofwtQ14M0_J9ZHYy-vZwacX-vQU

My crappy video camera can record in 1080p @ 60 fps or 4K @ 25 fps. Either modes in reality are in any actual good quality as they are both full of noise. For now, I have to continue to use the camera but I am hoping to get my hands on AI upscaling in the future to improve the video quality. How should I choose to record my current videos for now to better prep for future AI upscaling: in 1080p @60 FPS or 4K 25 FPS, or just whatever give the video the least noise in quality? I film in an indoor, small room environment with dim lighting if that matters.

Just last night I bought this bad boy (the 60 inch version):https://www.costco.com/Samsung-65"-Class-(64.5"-Diag)-4K-Ultra-HD-LED-LCD-TV-UN65KU630DFXZA.product.100294277.html I have a couple of questions about upscaling though... So immediately after setting this guy up and plugging everything in, I noticed that the 1080p cable picture (from a reasonable distance) looked fine. I switched my account on Netflix to Premium so I can stream 4k things, but the shows I watch that are HD only seem to look fine too... Is this because the TV is automatically upscaling those images? Or does HD display as normal on a 4k tv, it's just stretched across more pixels? Also, will this work with a normal HD Blue Ray dvd player? I want to be able to watch movies natively or upscaled in 4k, but I can't seem to be able to tell if the image is upscaled or not.... Any insight that you guys can give would be great. Cheers!

when a blue ray players upscale A DVD WHAT is the video

Is there a 3rd party application that would allow me to upscale everything to 4K?

I upgraded from GTX 1080 Gaming X to RTX 2080 OC and had a problem getting my 4K60Hz TV to run at native resolution in windows. (it did work in games) I have a 4K/60Hz Samsung TV which only has HDMI I was using a DVI to HDMI connector for my 1080, then upgraded to a RTX 2080, and assumed I should connect my main display to display port (passive adapter to HDMI cable) and my secondary 1080p projector to an HDMI port. Windows was allowing me to set up a custom 4K/60Hz resolution which was downscaled to 1080p and passed to my TV, which was super low quality and very frustrating. I tried 59 hz, 4096 x 2160.. 30hz...everything. I struggled for an hour (thankfully only 1hr because I have some experience) and finally figured out that display port is not compatible with HDMI!!!!! SOLUTION: CONNECT 4K/60Hz TV using HDMI cable. (instantly got the native resolution and frame rate.) connect additional 1080P projector using passive displayport to hdmi adaptor cable. There may be a problem later when upgrading to a 4K projector.. (get one with displayport... or try to fina an active adaptor) or make sure you have a GPU with more than one HDMI.

With Nvidia's DLSS (and whatever AMD are working on) getting better and better, it occurred to me that a website like YouTube could benefit greatly from this technology. To be clear, DLSS is an upscaling technology that replaces "dumb" algorithms with intelligent upscaling. The amount of compute power required is minimal, as the bulk of the work has already been done through deep learning. Youtubers uploading in 4K could instead upload in 1080p and an AI upscaler could upscale to 4K and beyond. For Google's benefit it would be better served if the upscaling were done on the client side, so that Google only has to send 1080p or even less across the web. I fully understand that at this point Nvidia have to train their AI in-house and then update drivers with the learned data. But, I imagine that at some point the AI could be so well trained that it no longer needs any more training. One could argue that at some point everyone will have 8K TV's and old YouTube videos in 1080p would be harder to upscale, but in reality the AI could upscale a 1080p stream to 4K, then upscale that into 8K for the viewer. It sounds too good to be true, like a perpetual motion machine, and to me 8K seems like absolute overkill for streaming purposes. This thought just came to mind as I was exporting a video. Just think of all the big YouTuber's recording with insanely expensive cameras, and how with AI upscaling there would be less need for that. And also for on-demand game streaming, I'm sure that has to be a big motivating factor for Nvidia. Food for thought I guess. It'll be a reality soon enough I imagine.

After watching the Nvidia Gamescom event I've had something in the back of my mind that is bugging me. Jensen Huang kept talking about this AI that could improve visuals and would upscale images to improve the ray tracing images to make higher quality images with less computer power. If that's the case... then wouldn't it mean that this technology could be applied into upscaling images, improving the quality of movies or even bring better visuals to older games. I doubt that it could make a huge difference as low polygon counts are still low polygon counts but could this technology be used for say taking a game that's built to run on nothing higher than 1080p or heavens forbid 720p and upscale it to 4k without any strange distortions or blockiness that would come from a standard upscaling protocol. Idk maybe I'm getting excited for a technology that won't exist but I hear potential for it. What do you guys think?

Hi guy, first time posting so hopefully this isn't a repeat discussion that I'm asking. I have two monitors a QHD 32" and FHD 27" and I use them for both computer gaming/everything else you do on a computer and as a home media set-up for TV, console gaming, and music listening that passes through my Pioneer AVR (4k compatible with HDCP 2.2 and 4.4.4 color scale). One of the things that I noticed is that when I attempt to watch standard 720p or 1080p content from my media equipment it doesn't scale properly to my more preferred 32" QHD monitor so I've switched to watching everything on the smaller lower res 27". I'm now currently in the market to replace the 27" with a larger 32" but, I'm undecided if I get a second QHD with high refresh, or try and find a 4k 32" that might scale better or, if either of them will scale better since computer monitors don't have up-scaling processors like you would find on a TV or projector respectively and I'm just SOL. I'm wondering if you guys have any experience on this situation or thoughts on things I can try that might improve current compatibility (cables, inputs, settings, ect.). Thank you folks, all feedback is appreciated! P.S. Sorry for the long backstory

I would like to get a higher quality (preferably 4K) version of this image to use as a wallpaper. I tried searching google, yandex and bing image search to get a better quality one, but all I bumped into was this 1080P one which I dont think looks very neat. I also tried putting this into Waifu2X but that had no change to the image quality at all. Would be of great help if u could suggest me an option. I don not have much knowledge in photo editing or upscaling. If something like that is required please do dumb it down a little so i can understand. Thanks

A long ongoing conversation I have with a friend who seems pretty stubborn about games not being able to properly upscale past 1080p has brought me to the point where I ask you, the community how games actually work at high resolutions. He claims that you must hack the EXE file within the game's directory to be able to run at high resolutions, which is definitely something we don't have to do anymore with games that are no older than 10 years old. Modern games will run at any resolution your graphics card and monitor supports. Anyways, do share what you know about running games at very high resolutions so I can prove my friend wrong.

Hello! I just saw this video: I followed all of the steps and my 1080p monitor is running at 1440p now but it doesnt look crisp at all, it looks blurry. I guess its because of course my monitor doesnt have the same ammount of pixels as 1440p does and that might create this effect when its trying to adapt to these settings. Its only the desktop that looks blurry though. Just tried witcher 3 with 1440p and it looks amazing but I also want to desktop to be crisp. Is there any way to turn on AA in the desktop XD? Is it even possible? Thankful for answers

I've been trying to optimize my video recording workflow, but at the same time I'm trying to get better quality through upscaling my video. So far this is how I go about doing this: Record video in OBS (720p 60 FPS, NVENC with ~6000Kbps bitrate, FLV format). Use a batch script to watch a folder of recordings, if the file is not already converted to MP4 format, then use FFMPEG to convert it. The converted files are moved to a separate folder. I've noticed I get less lag while moving across both Premiere Pro timeline when I'm editing the video, and Sony Vegas Pro 12 doesn't accept FLV files anyways. The same batch script compresses the original FLV files into an ultra-compressed 7z file. Use Adobe Media Encoder to watch the folder containing the MP4 files to render each source file as H.264, 3840x2160 resolution, with "Use Maximum Render Quality" and "Frame Blending" both checked. The rendered files are put into a separate folder. Have Handbrake watch the folder with upscaled 4K renders, then compress and downscale the videos to 1080p, CRF 22, with the following advanced settings: This gives the video much better quality than native 720p (at least imho), but typically the compression also makes the file size smaller than the original 720p recording. Delete / zip all the old unnecessary files. I formerly attempted using Sony Vegas Pro 12 that my friend owns, but the disadvantage was it takes roughly 1.5x to 3x times longer to go through the upscale/render process (even when using CUDA acceleration), and the file was just slightly bigger. This workflow gets rid of a lot of aliasing, jagged edges, and some blurring, while also lowering the file size, and the time it takes to go through this process is minimal since I have multiple batch scripts and watch folders set up to do everything for me. Is there anything I can do to better improve the quality of the videos if I'm physically unable to record at higher resolutions? I can record at 1366x768, but the quality increase isn't proportional to the framerate loss or stuttering. I've read up on Super Resolution software, and I've worked with such software for pictures, but I can't seem to find ones for video, and if/when I do find such a program, I'd like to test it against my current workflow. This question is also for when I build my overpowered gaming desktop in the summer, as I'll still want the most optimal workflow (even though I'll end up recording in 1080p natively).

So, I found some posts here, here and here about 4K in general and what the difference is going from 1080 and so on. But my question might be of a slightly more nerdy nature. Specifically I was hoping someone could shed some light on the upscaling algorithms used in 4K TV's. In the previous posts I have seen some people claiming that each cluster of 4 pixels (each 2x2 pixel) would display the same RGB value as one pixel on an 1080 monitor (since the the screen has exactly 4 times the amount of pixels as on a 1080 screen). And yes, I figure this would be easy to do for the manufacturer, but I wouldn't really call that up scaling since it is directly displaying the 1080p image. So, I would guess the true upscaling would include some sort of Anti Aliasing technique or maybe some other clever contrast detection algorithm or something. My point is, I don't know the specifics, but I would like to learn. Sidenote: Going to the store and looking at 4k TV's displaying 1080p content, some of them look really crappy to me... So would there be any way to turn off change the upscaling on a TV in order to display the 2x2 pixels directly (nearest neighbor interpolation)? Should be easy right? PS. This is actually my first post!

I was hoping that some people with 4k monitors could chime in on this question. What does 1080p content displayed on a 4k monitor looks like? Is it blurry or look worse than on a 1080p monitor or is it better?

Usually i can find most answers on the net without needing to ask a forum for advise. However i can't seem find a satisfying answser to the following problem... From time to time i like to play some PS3 exclusives like Beyond Two Souls, The Last of Us, etc. But i always find the picture quality pretty damn poor, even for consoles. Mostly because most pc monitors i have tested, and personally owned, do not scale that low resolution of 720p well. At all. Even my 1440p monitor doesn't scale it well, even tho it should be easier since it only has to double the resolution, but alas... Now i do know about certain technologies out there like "Super Resolution" from LG and Eizo had something similar on their fs2333. But i was not satisfied with the picture quality of the LG and the Eizo was too small, if only they made a bigger one. Do any of you know a pc monitor with great scaling capabilities? Or perhaps similar tech like "Super Resolution" and/or the one from eizo? Google failed me this time.