msycamore said:

You_Too said:

I've been comparing the 97 SE versions to help dark_jedi with an eventual future project, and I can tell you that the Flunk version is not the best.

Interesting, how did he take it? I recall he went berserk when I explained the shortcomings of that transfer.

Berserk?

Well, DJ said he might wanna do some upscales of the 97 SE's too, along with the Blu V2, so he sent me samples of each version which I compared, I told him that Gkar looked the best and he just trusted me on that.

Anyway, just to clarify to anyone interested: We won't clean up the 97 SE in that case. Just upscale it and maybe do a minor color correction.

EDIT: After some more analyzing of Gkar vs TB, I think they both somehow have their ups and downs. Gkar is indeed blocky because of the compression, and has some kind of weird edge sharpening maybe?

TB doesn't seem to have crushed shadows like I first thought, they're just darker. TB is more soft but has more grain preserved than Gkar, but also has another kind of compression artefacts, especially in the shadow detail.

The best thing would be if somebody would layer both on each other, because when cropped, they both are a perfect match. It's just the subbed parts of Gkar that would have to be layered with only TB or something.