Any AI Upscaling Pros on here?

[Perseverant]

But my wife and I are both of the same mind and are willing to go without some of our favorite content.  Neither of us likes where things are going in regards to companies positioning all their IPs for the recurring revenue that investors demand.  Lower quality is acceptable if it means not contributing to the recurring revenue trend.

Similar with me and my wife and at some point I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and buy DVDs of content we like (and will probably get more into upscaling at that point).

A few years ago we were discussing the prospect of starting a family (something we still want to do) and the content we were seeing...  even the ads we were seeing were not things I'd want my future kids watching.  I want kids to be able to be kids without having the mess of the world on their shoulders.  Saturday morning cartoons.  Classic Disney movies.  Shows that enrich their mind and fosters within them a sense of responsibility, morality, creativity, and wonder.

It does seem like a foregone conclusion that streaming is the goal of corporations and once they get their way they'll jack up prices to rates that will exceed the relatively paltry amount I'll probably end up spending on physical media when it's all said and done.  I'm glad I started all of this about 2.5 years ago before certain physical media gets unattainably expensive as more and more people realize the physical media cliff that is approaching.  I distinctly remember the bittersweet feeling of looking at my server early on and thinking "This is kind of sad-looking" when I only had a few films on there.  Fast forward to today and I've managed to get 150 films and 15 shows on there.  It's a great feeling.  Feels like I'm almost bottling up some of the joy of my childhood, waiting to pass it on to my kids that don't even exist yet.