User blog comment:Trainer Micah/Pokemon Sword/Shield prediction's 4 Anime/@comment-26573805-20180222020558

Here's actually a little side-by-side comparison I made, the left one is one I got from Disney XD, and it is also the one you see on iTunes/Amazon/Google Play/the UK Blu-ray. The right one is the version seen on the SD masters from the Australian Beyond Home Entertainment standard definition DVD of season 1 (which includes the 52 season 1 episodes, 48 which were previously released on the Super Wallets and the last 4 that pokemon.com only recently added in 2014). It shows how little TPCi actually did in upscaling the footage to what they oversell as being in HD. When I first saw their news article and an episode in their incredibly narrow definition of what "HD" is, I was like "hmmmm....how better would this actually look?". But then I and others have realized that it's all just lazy upscales.