The Netflix version of A Different World, a popular sitcom from the 1980s, has faced significant criticism due to poor AI upscaling technology. The remastered version displays distorted faces, illegible text, and misshapen backgrounds, which were quickly noted by viewers since its addition to the platform. Unlike its previous availability on Max and Prime Video, where it retained the original 4:3 format and avoided such issues, the 16:9 crop on Netflix has not worked well. Concerns raised highlight the inadequacy of current AI technologies for such remastering tasks, despite viewer expectations for quality upgrades.
Thanks to AI upscaling technology, the version of A Different World that's currently on Netflix won't look how you remember it did when it aired.
While the type of upscaling techniques used to remaster the original 480p or 360p broadcast resolution haven't been officially revealed, all signs point to sloppy AI.
You can make one blurry pixel into four pixels, or four pixels into sixteen pixels but you gotta have that information come from somewhere.
Netflix isn't completely absolved from blame even if it didn't upscale A Different World. It's difficult to understand how these issues made it past reviews.
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