The video gained 1.2 million views as of July 2015. On July 7th, 2009, YouTuber tempura1234 posted a video clip, titled 'Why I Don't Watch CSI,' taken from an episode of CSI:NY where Mac Taylor(Gary Sinise), is able to see a corneal reflection of a murderer by zooming and enhancing a blurry surveillance video still. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, technology-based crime-solving techniques became popular on a variety of television shows, most notably CSI and CSI:Miami, both of which often used zoom and enhance technology on photographs that would actually not have been decipherable by that method, like fuzzy stills from surveillance cameras or pixellated and distant photos.

Since this film is supposed to take place in a fictional Los Angeles in the year 2019, in 1982 this usage of the technique was not perceived as immediately ridiculous. At the end of the scene, he tells the computer to 'give him a hard copy' of the enhanced image.

In the famous scene, Deckard (Harrison Ford), repeatedly asks a computer to zoom and enhance a photograph. However, one of the earliest known examples of computer involvement, as well as the first to use the term 'enhance', is from the 1982 Ridley Scott science fiction film Blade Runner (below right). Realistic film enhancement situations, where the exposures get blurrier as they are enlarged, have formed the plots of several films, most notably the 1966 thriller Blow-Up. An early example of improbably blowing up a photo from film negative occurred in the 1948 film Call Northside 777 (below left). It is unknown what film or television show first featured the ability for computers to zoom and enhance a photograph or video.

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