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Small role · Director: Edward Buzzell
Warner Archive Blu-ray new 4K restoration
Small role · Director: Jacques Tourneur
Small role · Director: Charles Walters
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode
The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.
Small role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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StudioCanal 4K
Small role · Director: Howard Hawks
Small role · Director: Stanley Kramer
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UK BFI Blu-ray is very similar to Germany Capelight Blu-ray but Capelight is slightly more sharpened see caps
Both Kino Lorber and Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray suffer from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps
Small role · Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Small role · Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
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