] something new and horrible has been introduced on some
] studios' prints. Sort of a giant picture-marring version
] of Cap Code dots: Very large reddish brown spots that
] flash in the middle of the picture, usually placed in a
] light area. They flash in various patterns throughout a
] given reel while other reels of the same film may have
] none at all.
] ...it may be intended to be more visible on the murky
] compressed copies that get posted to the Internet

nice.

some other good stuff on this page, like the note made about studios wrecking films in order to shoehorn them into the MPAA's stupid and imprecice rating scheme. (about halfway down, it's a post regarding Bertolucci's 'The Dreamers')