@ zee944
Although I certainly would like to compare super resolution to Team Blu's method or another, I simply don't have Team Blu's or another video available. So that complicates matters. Also Team Bu did a lot more to enhance the GOUT, like enhancing the colors for example. To make a fair comparison you would have to compare the results to Team Blu's upscale before the color corrections, which complicates matters further. As towne32 stated, he did provide a few screenshots for some comparisons (for which I'm very grateful). However, it's difficult to draw conclusions from those, considering the above.
We did however post examples of frames where details are recovered by super resolutions that could never have been recovered with sharpening or (temporal) denoising. Take this screenshot for example that was created with an older super resolution script:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122740
You can clearly see details reconstructed in Tarkin's face and Vader's chest plate. This cannot be done with sharpening and denoising. The same is true for a more recent example:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124983
Again details are reconstructed in Vader's chest plate that simply are not visible in the GOUT. As a rule of thumb sharpening and denoising can only enhance details that are already visible. Details that are not visible are beyond retrieval with such methods. Super resolution uses information from multiple frames to reconstruct these details, increasing the true resolution of the frame. With sharpening and denoising details may be enhanced, but the resolution stays the same. That's not to say super resolution doesn't have it's drawbacks, but as far as detail reconstruction there is no comparison.
In any case, this thread was not started to compete with any of the other methods seen on this forum. In a sense it was inspired by them. I was just interested to see what super resolution could do with the GOUT. So far I'm pleased with the results, and if Team Blu is interested in a comparison or cooperation I'm certainly in for it. I'm hoping to get Star Wars finished soon (although the constant tweaking has delayed the release unfortunately). Then TESB is next in line. As Team Blu is also gearing up for TESB, we may see some interesting comparisons in the near future.