Several of you have written to call my attention to this article on the use of Digital Video Noise Reduction. This is a handy process that cleans up the image when a live-action movie is transferred to digital format, such as is seen on DVDs. However, when used injudiciously on animation, it wipes out portions of the image that should be retained. We need to make more of a stink about this. (For further research, consult this article from a few years back by Amid Amidi.)