Carl M. Leviness

Kino Lorber Blu-ray not only suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug, but also has slightly worse encoding see caps comparing 0.88 gamma

An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.

4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives

Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber

But still a bit overly noise-managed.

1984 CBS/Fox Hi-Fi VHS maybe better?

Australia Via Vision also has a Blu-ray set but it seems to be a collab with Universal so we are assuming it's the same here.

Same master, but less bitrate starved.

The encode on the BD is preferable to the UHD. Same master, but less bitrate starved: https://x.com/SadHillDevan/status/1530057783885721607?s=20 and see caps

Criterion Blu-ray > MoC Blu-ray which has boosted contrast see caps

But really bad encoding

For the most part, the mono track available on the BD and UHD is fine, but there's an 8 minutes long segment which sounds terrible with artificially expanded frequency range causing very audible artifacting. The 5.1 remix doesn't have that issue. Sample