The Simpsons: Season 6
Good god, this is a textbook case in how not to author a DVD if ever I saw one. The US DVDs of The Simpsons are hardly reference quality as it is, but this UK release of Season 6 takes everything to the next level. These grotty, analogue-sourced transfers feature the combined artefacts of both the NTSC and PAL video systems, along with compression artefacts and some of the worst examples of DVNR I've ever seen. This stuff is bordering on unwatchable at times, and I'm genuinely appalled that Fox would consider releasing this crap and charging full price for it. One consolation, of course, is that I got this as a review copy and thus didn't pay a penny for it (although I will have to take the time to review it). Another is that, as far as I'm concerned, the sixth season marked a noticeable drop in the show's quality, in many ways meaning that this was the beginning of the end and probably the last season of the show that I will actually bother with. It's still pretty damn inexcusable, though.
2 Comments:
Something I've always wondered- why is it called noise reduction when it's a visual amendment?
By Baron Scarpia, at 21:31
The title isn't strictly speaking wrong. It's designed to reduce noise and therefore make it easier to encode. However, it's the negative side effects that give it its bad reputation.
By Whiggles, at 22:06
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