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Richard Dysart

Richard Dysart

6 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K2 in HD

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Richard Allen Dysart (March 30, 1929 – April 5, 2015) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as senior partner Leland McKenzie in the television series L.A. Law (1986–1994), for which he won a 1992 Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series after four consecutive nominations. In film, he held supporting roles in The Hospital (1971), Being There (1979), The Thing (1982), Mask (1985), Pale Rider (1985) and Wall Street (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dysart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Supporting role · Director: John Frankenheimer

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing
Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has terrible encoding, "chock-full of all the usual frozen grain, mushy grain, trailing grain, missing grain,..."

Supporting role · Director: Arthur Hiller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray is likely the same as previous Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Hal Ashby

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion is new master

Best Audio:

1990 WB LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The WB Blu-ray audio is similar to the LaserDisc. The Criterion Blu-ray is noticeably more muffled.

Supporting role · Director: Clint Eastwood

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

WB 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Dolby Stereo mix

Additional Info:

According to one source: "Best audio is the original dolby stereo that is included on the UHD Blu-ray. It sounds miles better than anything released on DVD, Blu-ray (they sound much more muffled), and when compared to the atmos...However, it's not without its faults, as WB had to spoil and boost it causing clipping, still it's the best audio available for the time being."

Supporting role · Director: John Carpenter

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: blog.sporv.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:
Audio Notes:
  • the only track on Universal 4K, which is in DTS:X, has a mixing error of around 6dB too low on side channels, otherwise very similar to other 5.1 mixes.

Supporting role · Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

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