alt Hacker NewsI don't think so. Perhaps AI-upscaled? The footage looks legit and would track with the tube cameras that would have likely been used at that time. Although it sucks that it's deinterlaced to 30fps. Video like this really needs to be preserved without immediately throwing out half of the motion
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YouTube/Google doesn't give a shit anymore. They will mangle your video and audio and serve users "enhanced" "improved" "upscaled" encodes without telling you.
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"YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators" - Aug 25, 2025
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-test...
"YouTube will let you opt out of AI upscaling on low-res videos" - Oct 29, 2025
https://www.theverge.com/news/808717/youtube-automatic-ai-up...
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Not only that, YouTube turned many old videos shot in portrait (from the 2010s and before!) into engagement-boosting "Shorts" crap which get horribly mangled in their own way.
"Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it's on purpose" - Aug 26, 2025
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-shorts-upscaling-ex...
You're not "throwing out half the motion".
Given that PC monitors these days don't have an interlaced mode, how would you display it? Line doubling, so you're throwing out half the vertical resolution?
Yeah, this doesn't look like AI generated. It was probably filmed on super 8 film stock. The clothing, hair cuts, manufacturing process all scream early 80s.
I could see a cheap restoration introduction artifacts as a more likely reason for the look.