Ren and Stimpy DVNR

[Gasmask Ted]

In a now closed thread, Tom Stathes asked:
"Why in the world would R&S films need DVNR? I can't imagine them having visual artifacts that film prints 50 years their senior might have."

Five years ago tomorrow Steve Worth said in a.a.spumco:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.animation.spumco/msg/ef575ab91171b8cc?dmode=source

"The problem with some of the original episodes of R&S was that the
overseas film labs were very sloppy, and there was a lot of dirt on the
negatives when they were telecined. The cleanup that TNN did was
entirely done by hand frame by frame. Human eyes and brains did the
cleaning up, not a computer. They didn't do anything but remove dirt...
no color correcting, no grain smoothing, no digital bungling at all."

(Frighteningly, this means APC was done showing new episodes on TNN five years ago.)

[Leviathan]

Too bad the DVNR on the Ren and Stimpy's is as damaging to the image as it is on the Looney Tunes sets.

[Studio Toledo]

Too bad the DVNR on the Ren and Stimpy's is as damaging to the image as it is on the Looney Tunes sets.
True. I never even bothered to buy those DVD's after having read the initial reports over it. Shame they could've done better.

On the other hand, I still need to check out the Aeon Flux DVD's given the work they did on fixing up that series that was only a decade ago when that came out.

Too bad the other thread was closed, though this comment had to show up...

Ugggghhhhh..... can't we just pretend that show never even existed anyway?! If it were only possible, it SHOULD be erased from all history!!!!!!!!!!

I admit I shouldn't have even bothered to state that. It was such a low point, and in retrospect, I felt it was bound to happen sooner or later when they gave this guy the chance to do so. It was just sorta obvious. What also gets me is the many John K.-inspired pieces I see on YouTube that also lack any real interest or heart I want to see on the screen. I cannot get any real satisfaction if it's just going to be the same old crap again and again. It just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth, knowing it could've been different.

[Gasmask Ted]

As I recall, the Time-Life Ren and Strimpy DVDs pre-date even the TNN versions; they lack the DVNR of the season sets and some episodes have some footage missing from the season sets (tho there is some footage in the seaosn sets not in the TL sets). The TL sets are missing anything at all past season 2 tho, and i think there's some gaps in the season 2 coverage.