It took me 2 days to get everything extracted, upscaled and put it back together in a way that was pleasing. This resulted only in the first 5 minutes of the episode being done (the episode recap, the opening scene, and the intro). Still pretty good time for a mid-to-high end PC with software that isn’t just available to professionals. The result left me pretty awestruck. It looked better than I had hoped. No weird issues or anything. It looked pretty much like an HD version of DS9. Since (moving) pictures are worth more than 1000 words, here are 2 comparison videos that show off the improvement I was able to get with this machine learning based upscaling technique. Imagine what a real team could do, with more powerful equipment, custom trained neural networks … and access to the original SD files instead of a DVDRip like me.

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