Originally Posted By: andym
Minority report was the only film I could think of... although if we use TV shows, then the CSI franchise always manages to use massively advanced CCTV footage to catch their criminals.

People that actually do forensics hate CSI because its making everybody think that they all can perform miracles. The courts and police services aren't happy with it either because according to CSI, DNA is king and you can do a test in about 30 seconds.

For CSI computers however, 9 enlarged fuzzy pixels will be enhanced to a multi mega pixel image which they'll then work out the reflections on a shirt button to show you who was taking the photo. Screw using that algorithm to enhance photos. I'd use it to compress HD quality video into a couple KB/s stream and become ultra rich overnight.