More DVNR fun:

A post on Shane Glines' CartoonRetro forum from Spumco big-shot Steve Worth gives us a sneak preview of DVNR on the upcoming Looney Tunes Gold Collection Vol.3. The DVNR problems in post #3 were actually corrected before the set was released.

This article on Animation World Magazine, by Amid Amidi, has more information on the process.

Spumco's very own John Kricfalusi first wrote about this problem on the studio's web site, which has now disappeared. But, you can still access this article on DVNR, thanks to the Internet Archive. Just look at the images from the Tom & Jerry Laserdisc box set at the very end. Yowza.

Should I boycott affected titles?

That's entirely up to you, but personally I wouldn't suggest it. This gallery shows the worst examples, many of the cartoons on the Looney Tunes sets are fine, for example - but that still isn't an excuse for the few that were allowed to slip through in this state.

If you're not a fan of animation, remember how important single frames are to this art form - animation lovers and students everywhere rely on DVD's freeze-framing functions to study single poses. Each one of those drawings you see on screen was the result of tremendous lengths of time's work. Seeing parts of the image needlessly warped by a system designed to do the opposite brings the irony home and infuriates many die-hard animation fans.

I personally recommend you buy the affected titles anyway if you were planning to, and contact the companies involved telling them that you find the practice unacceptable. They are still good releases, but there's a fine line between "good" and "great".

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