as usual, all the cops sit around and watch the video. then the one cop who loves waving his dick around the most will say "hold it" and tell the computer geek cop to rewind that last part. the geek will rewind and the dick-waving-cop will say "freeze it right there". he might even tap on the screen. and the geek will freeze and the dick-waving-cop will ask him "can you zoom in right here?", pointing at the lamp and asking as if he really didn't know zooming was even possible. the geek will select the area to zoom from the video still and will tell the other cops that he'll apply something called "filters" (he might even do the finger quotes in the air when he says it) to make the image clearer. he'll apply the filter and his program will display the zoomed-in area as a mosaic that slowly dissolves into a super hi-res crystal clear image that looks like a photograph.

how the fuck does that work? how can you get hi-res photograph quality image from a reflection off a curved lamp from a video still? how do you get clarity from video noise?

i don't mind the oversized, super graphical, 24pt font aliased font interfaces; i can live with that. i understand you need some whiz-bang. and i don't even mind that they're not using Photoshop. but this kind of Hollywood Zooming always gets me. C.S.I. always does this. i thought cop shows strive for accuracy?