I’ve done that for broadcast before. Sadly it barely made any difference, but I felt it was at least just a little better than nothing and made it at least possible to sorta see what was supposed to be going on in the low quality source images and those images were the only ones that seemed to exist of the thing we were showing.
Purely speculation but, I wonder if this is a case of having some old, very low quality photos and trying to enhance and upscale them for the show.
I’ve done that for broadcast before. Sadly it barely made any difference, but I felt it was at least just a little better than nothing and made it at least possible to sorta see what was supposed to be going on in the low quality source images and those images were the only ones that seemed to exist of the thing we were showing.