6 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray
Small role · Director: Morton DaCosta
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Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray from 12K scan
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
Small role · Director: Orson Welles
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WB Europe 4K Blu-ray
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)
23 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Small role · Director: Elia Kazan
Small role · Director: Billy Wilder
Kino Lorber 2024 Reissue Blu-ray
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Kino Lorber 2024 Reissue Blu-ray has much better encoding than previous Kino Lorber Blu-ray, or MoC or Germany Blu-ray see caps
Small role · Director: Robert Siodmak
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Kino Lorber Blu-ray has black crush, noticeably inferior encoding, but Arrow Blu-ray is slightly more cropped see caps
Small role · Director: Anthony Mann
Arrow Video Blu-ray
Arrow's deluxe presentation is a fantastic package with great supplements, art and printed materials. Sadly the master is a heavily processed Paramount affair. It has seemingly been severely grain managed and the mono audio is horribly thin when it shouldn't be. Stereo and 5.1 options are also given but they seem to be more of home video remixes. They do not have the fidelity issue of the compromised mono but also show marked differences as if they were remixed from stem sources. This seems to have suffered lesser degrees of the problems that plagued The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance's 4K master. This is the best version to date but one wishes Paramount could leave scans alone.
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