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Small role · Director: John Carpenter
Italy Koch Media Blu-ray is not stretched compared to US Shout! Factory and UK Arrow Blu-rays
As for the color grade, unsure whether the Italy or US/UK Blu-ray is more accurate to the theatrical colors.
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has the most extras with a lossless isolated score
Small role · Director: Brian Helgeland
US Paramount Blu-ray for better picture quality of the director's cut
Warner Bros UK Blu-ray for having both cuts of the film
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
US Paramount Blu-ray has a better encoding of the director's cut see caps but only Warner Bros UK Blu-ray has both cuts of the film
Warner Bros UK Blu-ray has Dolby TrueHD audio
Small role · Director: George P. Cosmatos
A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.
Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal
Small role · Director: John Carpenter
Pick your poison between the 3 UHDs or maybe the remastered Shout! Factory Blu-ray?
Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray has consistently mediocre encoding + no original audio. StudioCanal encoding is better a lot of the time, but is terrible in others. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray has good encoding but wrong colour space
Small role · Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
UK ICON 4K Blu-ray (caps)
UK 4K Blu-ray has a slightly better encode than US Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray and Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray
5.1 mix is flawed on Shout! Factory/ICON, a phasey upmix instead of the proper discrete surround. The UHD 2.0 tracks are downmixes of that track.
2008 Fox Blu-ray sounds great, very close to the original 70mm mix, only with split surround.
2001 DVD has the original mix as 4.1 and matrixed 2.0.
Imprint 4K has a 4.0 track. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has a different 5.1, unclear if it's the same as Fox BD.
Small role · Director: Stephen Norrington
(France 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but removes the theatrical forced subtitles, also has some shots worse than the Warner Bros 4K)
DTS-HD 6.1 from the Blu-ray?
Small role · Director: Brett Leonard
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Caps by cinemaniac, look great but
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray boosted the audio and introduced clipping. Old Paramount Blu-ray maybe better?
Small role · Director: Ivan Reitman
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Plaion German 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber see comparison and caps
Kino Lorber has an exceedingly poor encode, only slightly improved by the DV layer.
Original matrixed Dolby Stereo: Universal US Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Plaion DE 4K Blu-ray
Universal's BD uses the same transfer as the old LaserDisc and sounds a bit better than Plaion's, which has worse dynamics.
Plaion's Atmos remix is tastefully done and preserves the original mix's characteristics, the 5.1 track on Kino's release is overly aggressive and unbalanced.
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