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Bill Lee

Bill Lee

8 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K6 in HD

Supporting role · Directors: Joseph Barbera & William Hanna

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Wolfgang Reitherman

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Original: 35mm scans or Disney LaserDisc (1.33:1 open matte)

Restored: Disney Limited Issue DVD (1.33:1 open matte)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Later Disney DVDs and Blu-ray are altered

Best Audio:

35mm scans or Disney LaserDisc

Small role · Directors: Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

New restoration looks stunning: caps

Best Audio:

1995 Disney Archive Collection LaserDisc for OG mono track

Small role · Director: Norman Taurog

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Robert Stevenson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Small role · Director: Robert Wise

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.

All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.

Small role · Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Shout Factory Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and  2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.

Small role · Director: Stanley Donen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

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