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ReBoot s1e1 - remastered and uploaded by Mainframe themselves
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Can someone explain why a remaster is wanted on a technical level? This show had a very unique art and animation style. The only show I can think of that might come this close is Transformers: Beast Wars.
Does a Google search… right, because it was also a Mainframe show.
Remaster doesn't change the original art or animation. Sometimes it is a rerender of original source files. Sometimes it is a treatment of the existing master files. It just adds fidelity to the picture and sometimes audio. Fixes things like low framerate, weird lighting effects, that kind of thing.
Isn’t the intent to enhance the original?
The intent is to make the distributed version more true to the real original. None of us got to see the original. The original is a bunch of data on various machines. What we saw was a low quality save file of the original, cut down and watered down to the specs of 4:3 CRT televisions and broadcast hardware of the time. That version develops artefacts not intended when distributed on modern media.
Now this probably isn't using original source files but it is possible. Remaster as a term also is used when they take the final master copy and rerun it through more modern technologies to get a cleaner output which is what I expect happened here.
Increased framerate alone would make any CGI content more watchable.