I found this thread with some more info on what they're doing: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1633188-before-toy-story%E2%80%A6-there-was-reboot/

Sveeno

Before Toy Story, there was ReBoot—the first fully computer-animated TV show. Thought lost to time and decay, we partnered with the Reboot Rewind team and Kioxia to bring the original, uncompressed masters back to life. Join us as we try to fix the incredibly rare, $300k D1 tape deck needed for preservation!

XBrav_Revolutionz

Hey, Bryan from ReBoot ReWind here!

The tapes were 720x576i50, but always rendered as full frames to produce a 720x576p25 frame without compression. The video track is essentially an uncompressed bitmap. There are also 4 audio tracks in full digital audio that we capture. The capture process is directly via SDI for video and digital audio via XLR into our capture PC.

For my editing machine, I have the Kioxia drives attached via a PCIe riser. My X570 platform is a bit limited on PCIe lanes, so I currently have one drive active in my host as the scratch and storage. Each episode is roughly 50GB raw. We render them back as a Prores 4444 maintaining the same aspect ratio and color profiles as the source, and that gets us down to roughly 16GB per tape. We're looking into some m-discs for long-term archival as well as other means to ensure the data doesn't degrade.

I have a 5700X3D processor and a RTX 3080 in the rig. The video pipeline I scripted is currently 100% CPU bound, so I can saturate the 5700X3D to get about 25-35fps when rendering or jogging to verify the fixes. With my old SSDs, there was a noticeable slowdown in random reads when trying to jog. When you're going frame-by-frame, it becomes painful.

I'm happy to answer any other questions!

Actually it holds up quite well because of the subject matter. Unlike something like Toy Story 1 which came after this. In that Pixar were portraying real world things. And trying to capture realistic lighting. But unable to actually do it. With reboot they were portraying a world imagined inside of a computer. And while we might be able to do even better today than they were able to. For the time it really does encapsulate and capture the vibe.

The first season is pretty cheesy and kid-friendly from what I recall, but the later seasons got a bit of a darker, more serious vibe (I remember even my dad taking an interest in those later seasons when it was on TV back in the day).

Huh, had no idea Linus said they'd help remaster it until looking it up from your comment.

Not sure if these are from those efforts.