Digital Noise Reduction, an image process we usually don't want in blu-ray movies because it essentially erases something important from the picture.
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81 films on Best Blurays
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Includes 73 films that name DNR only in the notes.
Video Notes:
Old Disney Blu-ray is better than new 4K Blu-ray due to excessive DNR
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Maybe Umbrella Australia 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode), Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray, or Pony Canyon Japan 4K Blu-ray. All other existing 4K Blu-rays have terrible compression: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=21423337&postcount=173
The master is heavily DNR'd.
Best Video:
Video Notes:
4K Blu-ray caveat: mostly great video but the 4K Blu-rays have had additional DNR applied in some scenes on top of the DNR that had been applied in post-production and was already present on the DVDs & Blu-rays
The 2020 Blu-ray may be better than the 4K Blu-ray?
Best Audio:
New Line Blu-ray
Audio Notes:
New Line Blu-ray have the original 6.1 mixes
Additional Info:
4K Blu-ray set is missing extras from the old Blu-ray/DVD releases
Director: Edgar Wright
Best English-Friendly:
2024 remastered Universal 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
20th Anniversary UHDs
Video Notes:
Better than the original 2019 4K Blu-ray, but there are a few shots with heavy DNR that look worse than the old 4K Blu-ray. The 2024 France StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has a better encode than the 2024 Universal 4K Blu-ray (but forced France subs)
Director: Peter Jackson
Video Notes:
Old Universal Blu-ray is better than new 4K Blu-ray which has excessive DNR
Video Notes:
(4K Blu-ray has DNR)
Director: Edgar Wright
Video Notes:
Old Universal Blu-ray is better than 2019 4K Blu-ray: black crush, color is off, DNR has been applied whereas on Shaun and World's End it has not
Best Video:
2024 Mercury 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
(But has obvious DNR, especially when the camera is not in motion)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Best Video:
Video Notes:
Caveat: mild DNR throughout the transfer, non-IMAX scenes appear soft due to being scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative.
Directors: Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig
Best Video:
Video Notes:
Umbrella 4K Blu-ray is reported to have a different, more organic-looking master without the DNR on the Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray. Encoding and possibly further mastering by FiM. Still “just” an upscale.
Best Video:
Video Notes:
Caveat: mild DNR throughout the transfer, non-IMAX scenes appear soft due to being scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative.
Additional Info:
Best Buy exclusive Steelbook Blu-ray has the exclusive The Dark Knight Reborn Featurette
Director: Pete Travis
Best Video:
Video Notes:
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has excessive DNR, Japan Blu-ray maybe better?
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
4K Blu-ray has DNR, see caps https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=11748&d2=11747&s1=115760&s2=115776&i=0&l=0
Additional Info:
Best Buy Blu-ray has a bonus disc
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Best English-Friendly:
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Upcoming Release:
Criterion 4K Blu-ray releasing January 2027
Best Video:
France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray has the least DNR (UK Artificial Eye might be similar? Both better than Universal 4K Blu-ray)
Criterion even though doesn’t have 4K, it has the B&W version and a lot of extras.
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