Maybe Warners transfers the negative to Vitaphone.

My DVD of the restored "Wizard of Oz" doesn't look that bad. The color is vivid and the grain is nowhere to be seen. In fact if anything, they took away the look of film entirely. The same thing was done with "Citizen Kane."
Some people find that antiseptic look to be annoying. With Kane it didn't bother me that much. The original "King Kong" looks fabulous on the new DVD set.


Ed