Amid says: This post is a primer about DVNR (“digital video noise reduction”), a technology that is used by movie studios to clean up dirt and grain from film prints. It works fine in live-action, but when used with animation, it has a tendency to erase and distort parts of the image.
Recent releases of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Woody Woodpecker, Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes have all been marred by DVNR technology. This is not a new problem and DVNR has ruined many cartoon releases since the early-’90s, but it’s been angering a lot of cartoon fans in the online community recently. The post has links to other articles and discussions of DVNR and cartoons.
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