Small role · Director: George Seaton
Brand new HD master by Paramount Pictures – from a 6K Scan of the 35mm VistaVision Original Camera Negative
Small role · Director: John Cassavetes
Small role · Director: Otto Preminger
No comparison available, and none of the Blu-rays have original aspect ratio.
Small role · Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The 4K discs in both Criterion and Imprint sets are FiM encodes, but low-passed. The compression is better, but some of the grain is lost. Difference is pronounced in screen caps, but not likely to be noticed during playback, without a reference to compare it to. Comparisons
All discs use the same source transfer. It's not of the highest quality, and it includes some slight distortion, looping, clicks, pops, and hum. Criterion cleaned it up for their release, but unfortunately also lost a lot of fidelity in the process.
MGM NTSC DVD doesn't seem to have some of the more prominent distortion and has slightly different EQ but is otherwise the same.
Small role · Director: Arthur Lubin
Kino Lorber has some additional noise reduction. Universal NTSC DVD's worse than either of the Blu-rays.
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