CSI nonsense has to stop!
Alright, first off, disclaimers out of the way, it is one of my favorite shows. Paritally because it's scientific and all, but I also live for the image manipulation sequences.
Last night there was a scene where they are viewing survelliance tape. They stop the frame on this grainy, night shot, B/W tape, then zoom in on an area 1/1000 the size of the screen:
"There! That piece of paper. Zoom in on that" - wait for it....
"See if I can enhance that..." - get ready for some magic!
"What is it a barcode?" - looks like nasty pixels to me
"Looks like a PDF 417" - LOL, ROTFL, I am enhaling carpet at this point
"2 dimensional barcode" - wait it gets better
"can you decode it?" - of course!
"I think so" - tap, tap, tap on the keyboard ... appropriate star trek like noise (hmmm maybe we should have that when we run Photoshop filters)...
then the image magically appears at 300 dpi
"OK, it's an airline boarding pass" - jeez, the software was able to decode it
"...last night,Vegas to Philadephia, then on to Rome, and Sardinia"
Well, at least I can give them credit for the PDF 417.