Indeed looks terrible and as someone in the market for many of those UHD Blu-ray re-scans (yet again after lower res versions) this is almost uniformly unacceptable.

“When you finally do see a piece of footage transferred well, it can be breathtaking. Good archival practices require a lot of institutional knowledge and labor. It’s an art when done well, and the people who do it care so much about what they do. But the modern application of much of AI is precisely about taking labor out of the equation.”