Mutant (Night Shadows) (1984) - Code Red

[dubious]

Originally Posted by Katatonia

Many studios do use minimal DNR at on point or another, but it is excessive on Mutant.

I don't see why Multicom felt that all traces of film grain should be removed, especially with a fresh 4K transfer.

More than one master can be prepared from a transfer, since Bill stated it was originally purposed for TV then additional degraining makes sense, since HDTV has far less bit rate than a blu-ray, DNR aids compression effeciency. However, if the raw scan transfer is available, a suitable high-grain master for physical media release could have also been rendered.

[Katatonia]

Originally Posted by dubious

More than one master can be prepared from a transfer, since Bill stated it was originally purposed for TV then additional degraining makes sense, since HDTV has far less bit rate than a blu-ray, DNR aids compression effeciency. However, if the raw scan transfer is available, a suitable high-grain master for physical media release could have also been rendered.

Of course, but rarely even do movies shown on HDTV display this extreme level of DNR processing. For Blu-ray, it just harms the quality and watchability. You can easily tell while watching it that the DNR processing was turned up to max to remove any traces of grain. Probably the only reason why some good detail even remains is that it was a 4K transfer. A raw transfer (or at least minimal DNR used) would have been far, far better for the format.