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Because Upscaling is incredibly resource hungry. You can't do it on a 250€ "smart" TV with the calculation equivalent of a raspberry pi 2.
And then, sunk cost fallacy goes brrrrr.
And in a very real way, if you’re allowing customers access to source material so they can programmatically manipulate it at a time that online services are rapidly enshittifying, it’s contrary to their business goals. A ripper that upscales is probably trivially easy to use.
And plus, who knows what a client upscaler will hallucinate across multiple models and technology platforms. (Or may be intentionally configured to do.)
No one wants to have to explain to grandpa why all the faces in Dukes of Hazzard have been replaced by glans because he got a meme upscaler.
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