+240 Every time in a crime show when a suspect is on a blurry image there is the enhance, enhance, enhance scene where the picture magically become clear. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i have no clue what you mean by this :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Say there's a security image of a suspect, but the quality is trash. The crime scene investigators put it up on a monitor and in ten seconds of digital enhancing the image is magically crystal clear and they've got their suspect.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ohhhhh I get it nowww! thankss

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wonder if that works in real life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Videos are constructed of pixels. One pixel cannot be zoomed in on to create other pixels of equal quality. Thus, the more you zoom in, the more it becomes of horrible quality and blurry. There is absolutely no practical way to clarify that image.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually there are some programs that can do this. They guess approximately where the new pixels should be (it's not always accurate) but it can do better than humans. That being said, i'm sure how useful it actually is and the tv portrayal is still probably super inaccurate.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thus the word practical. It probably would be less than that if it didn't work half the time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago