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Upscaling those videos should make text easier to read and improve the overall viewing experience.
The system requirements for VSR are relatively high.
A video in Microsoft Edge at 480p (no upscaling).(Image credit: Future)
Microsoft is working on automatic hybrid GPU support for laptops that have multiple GPUs.
NVIDIA announced a similar feature recently, called RTX Video Super Resolution.
It also upscales videos, but it works within Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
A video in Microsoft Edge at 480p (no upscaling).(Image credit: Future)
The feature supports higher resolutions than Edge’s comparable offering as well.
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Microsoft Edge is the default surfing app on Windows.
It’s based on Chromium, so it’s compatible with the vast majority of the web.
A video in Microsoft Edge at 480p (no upscaling).(Image credit: Future)
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It’s important to place this feature within context.
I’ve tested it briefly and the results were… not good.
The feature struggles mightily with videos of people.
The same video in Microsoft Edge upscaled using Video Super Resolution, which is currently in testing.(Image credit: Future)
It does slightly better with videos of screen recordings.
But tools like this improve over time as they’re trained on more data.
It should get better before it ships to general users.
The same video again but at 720p.(Image credit: Future)
