Yeah, the ASICs in newer TVs are crazy powerful, and crazy good at it. They're nothing like what you'd find in a phone or even a PC, and even a one-generation jump for our Sony TVs was an improvement.

That's what I was trying to emphasize. I think interpolation on old TVs, and maybe early versions of SVP, left a bad taste in people's mouths. Kind of like fake HDR.

...But I also think there's a lot more sentiment against any kind of "processing" since the rise of AI slop.

As an example I often cite, there was this old TV show I helped touch up for a "fan" release, a long time ago. One small component in a very long pipeline was a GAN upscaler... It worked fine. The original TV release was broken as hell, and people loved the improvement.

Fast forward many years later, and I mention this was used in the "remaster" still floating around, and the same subreddit goes ballistic. They literally did not believe me, or cooed about the "flaws" of the original, or called it slop and against the rules and wanted me banned.

And I suspect frame interpolation and resolution scaling in other contexts get tossed in that same bucket. Not that I blame anyone. AI does suck.

I have. I A/B test it all the time. I pause and pixel peep.

And I don't watch any sports, nor any marvel movies.

"huh, I guess the lag on my flat screen isn’t too bad for gaming"

I've had CRTs. And I have one of those "zero latency" overclocked LCD monitors with no internal scaler. As much as I like them, they feel sluggish compared to something newer.

Yeah sorry I’m not into high def TV myself.

In that case, I suspect you haven't tried it on more modern displays, or when its baked into transcoded footage with one of the better filters.

Yes, it looks awful and artifacty processed by older LCDs. But it looks really good these days.