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Chuck Hicks

Chuck Hicks

22 films on Best Blurays7 in 4K15 in HD

7 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Small role · Director: Stuart Rosenberg

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1999 R1 WB DVD/2005 R2 WB DVD

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

4K · Solid

Small role · Director: Nicholas Ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Gore Verbinski

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray encoding is much better caps

Paramount 4K Blu-ray is disappointing capsule review

Best Audio:

4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?

Additional Info:

The D-Theater DVHS/DVD has a different color grading compared to the 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Don Siegel

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite extreme frozen grain in moments, overzealous HDR brightness in outdoor sequences, color timing shifts in some shots

Best Audio:

Original Mono Mix: 1990's LaserDisc stereo remix folded back to mono, original VHS and Beta Hifi, WB 4K Blu-ray mono

Small role · Director: John Boorman

4K · Excellent

Small role · Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab) · facebook.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Capelight 4K announced for 2026

Video Notes:

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has slightly better compression than Criterion 4K Blu-ray.

The master in DV looks all but identical to the Criterion’s HDR grade. Detail-wise, FiM’s encode looks like it uncovered a tiny bit of extra high-frequency information that got filtered on the Criterion. See nicolas review

Best Audio:

1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1993 MGM LaserDisc/2002 R2 MGM DVD

Audio Notes:

1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1993 MGM LaserDisc/2002 R2 MGM DVD are the best. See blah-ray https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/2018/01/raging-bull-1980.html

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has better audio than Criterion 4K Blu-ray, from nicolas:

I believe that what’s on Imprint’s 4K is one of the good mixes MGM and Criterion released during the LaserDisc days. Music is powerful and detailed, dialogues have excellent fidelity and ambient sounds have perceptible depth. I compared the "new" 2.0 with the anemic 5.1 as well as the Criterion 4K mix and could clearly hear the improvements.

15 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Supporting role · Director: Otto Preminger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Samuel Fuller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Clint Eastwood

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Warren Beatty

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Disney Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Disney Blu-ray has the original 5.1 CDS mix

Small role · Director: Samuel Fuller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France is using the same transfer

Small role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Hugh A. Robertson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Otto Preminger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Richard Brooks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Small role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Vincent J. Donehue

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

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