Stanley Andrews

4K restoration from technicolor negatives

While Indicator Blu-ray used a newer 4K restoration from 2022 instead of the older 2K restoration, Kino Lorber has the original aspect ratio, and the Indicator Blu-ray looks very soft in comparison see comparison

Indicator Blu-ray while using the same master as Kino Lorber, its encoding is likely to be better

ClassicFlix Blu-ray is using the same source and is superior to Youtube 4K Streaming

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHxbyV-8V6Y see caps

Kino Lorber Blu-ray suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Both the Plaion and Arrow audio tracks sound like they received little/any high- or low- frequency attenuation, but the audio on the new Kino Lorber restoration is much more detailed. It's likely that it was transferred from different (superior) analogue elements. It sounds excellent.

Kino Lorber Blu-ray not only suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug, but also has slightly worse encoding see caps comparing 0.88 gamma

Germany Plaion Media Blu-ray is marginally better than Kino Lorber which suffers a little dark crush: https://slow.pics/c/BME05Jlw

UK Indicator Blu-ray looks great, not sure about US Paramount and France releases
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film11/blu-ray_review_171/state_of_the_union_blu-ray.htm