Originally posted by: The BizzleI was sure I read somewhere that the machine they used to telecine the D1 master with applied noise reduction WHILE it was scanning. Meaning there is no D1 that doesn't have the DVNR. Any idea where you read this? It's certainly possible, although it would be dumb to do it that way, as they knew there was going to be an intermediate stage before mastering to Laserdisc, anyway.
Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
I was under the impression that the DVNR was used during the THX mastering process, so it only applied to the DC and Faces set. IIRC, Laserman was talking about how the earlier editions were actually superior in this regard. I'll have to ask him to confirm.
Originally posted by: MielrBut the earlier editions were made from totally different film transfers. A brand-new transfer was done just for the DC set (and later re-used for the Faces set). No previous editions used that transfer.
Both right. No DVNR on the older transfer (although it's a little softer, noisier and dirtier) so it's impossible to tell just from the existing LDs whether or not there is a DVNR-free D1.