@zee944,

I still don't get your point... if you think that SuperResolution and/or PaNup do not work, just don't use them! IIRC, DrDre has never stated that SR is the "final upscaling technique", nor do I think that PaNup is the same; what I can say is that combining different techniques leads to better results than using just one - and between them I include dehalo, dealiasing, denoise, sharpening, degrain & regrain etc.

It's a really difficult task to obtain the "right" (read: developer preferred) result - but I'm pretty sure you know it... for the ones who doesn't know, there are a lof of possible combinations to obtain a result with just, let's say, three filters... for example, we want to upscale an SD source to HD; we use a resizer, a denoiser, and a degrainer; we could put them in different order, and so we get different results; with just three filters, there are 8 possible permutations - stating that we use always the same settings... think if we will use 10 filters, each with many possible settings... that's why we spend hours, days, just to find maybe a 0.1% improvement, that is obviously never enough! (^^,)

If you think your method is better in retrieving finer details, then explain it briefly, and post some comparisons - if it will work, I'll be more than happy to use it with my future projects; can't add anything more than DrDre and others has already written before.