9 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Supporting role · Director: Michael Curtiz
Small role · Director: Mike Nichols
StudioCanal 4K
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K caps.Criterion Blu-ray better encode than StudioCanal Blu-ray.
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray
Small role · Director: Morton DaCosta
Sources: mega.nz (opens in a new tab)
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: Robert Wise
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray
24 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Small role · Director: Leo McCarey
Small role · Director: George Seaton
Brand new HD master by Paramount Pictures – from a 6K Scan of the 35mm VistaVision Original Camera Negative
Small role · Director: Stanley Kramer
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
MoC Blu-ray > Kino Lorber > Twilight Time. Kino Lorber has slightly worse encoding than MoC, see caps, and Twilight Time is over-exposed
Small role · Director: Walter Lang
Film Masters Blu-ray HD restoration
1 in SD
DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS
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