the effort they go to inorder to see your penis is astounding.

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Some of the enhancement in battlestar and enemy of the state are pretty realistic, takes them many many many hours.

Goddamnit Blade Runner, its all your fault for starting this crap!

Although seriously, if I'm watching a movie or TV show these days and they do this crap its an instant WTF GTFO moment for me. Real security cameras are VGA at best (has anyone come across an actual product that uses HDTV grade stuff?) and the definition is laughable to even recognize a face if the person is standing right there in front of it.

The "zoomed out" pictures they show in the clips there are about 4x better definiton than the real thing... I would love it if the stuff here even provided that.

Alias FTW.

http://i.imgur.com/WyoOL.jpg

Oh God, please stop Hollywood, NO MOOOOOOOORE!

Oh so here's the deal. Computers are the spackle for shoddy writing. Computers are used by Hollywood both to fill in plot gaps and to provide an easy way to wrap up an episode, movie or get past a character's adversity. For more proof...watch "The Italian" job or "Oceans 11/12/13".

As a computer developer, I've grown a hatred for CSI and most TV shows that feature any form of computers. *sigh*

"Do you have an image enhancer that can bitmap?"

I dunno, do you have a car that can fruit salad?

This is used so often because it works cinematically at a literal and at a metaphorical level.

"Lock on, and enlarge the z axis..."

>> ^rottenseed:
Oh so here's the deal. Computers are the spackle for shoddy writing. Computers are used by Hollywood both to fill in plot gaps and to provide an easy way to wrap up an episode, movie or get past a character's adversity. For more proof...watch "The Italian" job or "Oceans 11/12/13".


Or "Independence Day" (Did you know that AppleTalk is compatible with ALIEN FUCKING SPACESHIPS? It's true.)
Or "The Net" (Did you know that viruses actually sound like bacon? It's true.)

Or...dare I say..."Hackers". Ok that one, I was unaware that people put up security systems that were like a game with Skeletons. (that was hackers right?)

>> ^rottenseed:
Oh so here's the deal. Computers are the spackle for shoddy writing. Computers are used by Hollywood both to fill in plot gaps and to provide an easy way to wrap up an episode, movie or get past a character's adversity. For more proof...watch "The Italian" job or "Oceans 11/12/13".


Machina ex machina.

Hahahaha, I just saw the one from CSI where they find a murderer by enhancing a photo of his reflection on the eyeball of some chick. Not only did they have perfect quality after 100x zoom, but they were also able to rotate the 2D picture in order to get a frontal view of her eye.

Lanczos8

How do they avoid the ringing?

The latest Nedroid strip seems relevant:
http://nedroid.com/2009/12/18/

Most of the tech in movies and TV is plain bullshit. It makes watching CSI, 24, Law and Order and so many other shows unbearable to watch as a geek.

The new Red Dwarf episodes contained a nice little parody on image enhancement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3NWKbBaaU

They did it in Avatar too. It wasn't so horrible as some of these, just one level of zoom and enhance. I would have laughed if I wasn't wincing inside...

How to trick CSI
http://i.imgur.com/dXZPN.jpg

As a physicist, I've grown a hatred for most movies and TV shows that feature any form of interaction with objects.
>> ^gwiz665:
As a computer developer, I've grown a hatred for CSI and most TV shows that feature any form of computers. sigh

You can actually enhance images, especially if you can compare different frames in a video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution

Zoom in on that nucleoli on the left.

There was a film I think it was called "Blow Up" in the 60's that could have been the predecessor for Hollywood's obsession with photography and investigation. It's a great arty & sexy film about a murder in a park. Check it out.

>> ^thegrimsleeper:
http://i.imgur.com/WyoOL.jpg


http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/640/csi21.jpg

She enlarged MY z-axis.

how is this not involved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8w3fhYy6w4