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Tracey Walter

Tracey Walter

20 films on Best Blurays12 in 4K8 in HD

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Tracey Walter (born November 25, 1947) is an American character actor. He has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tracey Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

Leading role · Director: Alex Cox

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Supporting role · Director: Steve Wang

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Richard Fleischer

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: James Foley

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray, FiM encode

Supporting role · Director: Steven Soderbergh

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Universal 4K Blu-ray > Sony International, both a huge step up from old Blu-ray, but Sony international applied additional filtering: https://slow.pics/c/Cba9eFdD

Also they are cropped to 1.78 from 1.85

Supporting role · Director: Jack Nicholson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has terrible encoding, but presumable still better than Paramount Presents Blu-ray from Chinatown 4K.

It was an old Blu-ray, and not the latest restoration. Unfortunately, there's no caps comparison yet.

Supporting role · Director: Jonathan Demme

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Criterion Blu-ray has exclusive extras

Supporting role · Director: Tim Burton

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray but with notable color timing issues

Best Audio:

Dolby Stereo mix: WB LaserDisc PCM

Original Mix in 5.1 Discrete: 1997 WB DVD, 1.33:1 version for this track uncut

Original mix in 2005 5.1 new transfer: 2005 WB DVD in Dolby and DTS, 2008 WB Blu-ray for TrueHD.

Additional Info:

Original mix on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD is significantly warmer and more impactful sounding. These nuances are lost on the 2005 remaster audio found on DVD and Blu-ray which due have a tinge of extra clarity in contrast.

The Atmos mix is excruciatingly bad as it removes original sound effects and wrecks the original sound design. Music is prioritized and dominates in a bad way. The sound library effects used to create a specific sound signature as part of the mix of time period production design is completely lost. Fidelity is also lowered due to noise reduction and processing.

Small role · Director: Clint Eastwood

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Amazon Streaming Release

Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

The Amazon Streaming release is the only HD release so far, and looks to be a faithful, non-upscaled copy of the film, so preferable to the old DVD.

The Streaming release also has a 2.0 mix which is likely the original mix and preferable to the 5.1 mix on the old DVD. 

Small role · Director: Paul Schrader

Best English-Friendly:

UK Indicator Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Best English-Friendly & Video:

CriterionBlu-ray

Best Audio:

Criterion 2.0 Surround Track

Additional Info:

Eureka release has a better encode, but is taken from an older master. The Criterion Blu-ray was a new restoration from the ground up, and is substantially improved despite not being as well encoded.

Small role · Director: Jonathan Demme

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Jonathan Demme

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Jonathan Demme

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney+

Video Notes:

Disney+ is streaming in HD with OAR

Small role · Director: Paul Schrader

Best English-Friendly:

UK Indicator Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Martin Brest

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray new master much better than their 2016 artificially sharpened Blu-ray but grain managed

Best Audio:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray "OG audio" is a downmix, R1 DVD has the original with much better dynamics than Shout! Factory's upmix

Small role · Director: Woody Allen

Best English-Friendly:

Likely 88 Films Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

2025 88 Films Blu-ray

Video Notes:

All Blu-ray have the same old MGM transfer. Likely 2025 88 Films Blu-ray has the best encoding

4k restoration not approved for home release even for the 2025 88 Films release

Best Audio:

1992 MGM LaserDisc

Small role · Director: Sidney Lumet

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

StudioCanal EU

Video Notes:

StudioCanal EU has elevated blacks and inaccurate colors, Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encode.

Best Audio:

Eureka Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Arthur Hiller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray is likely the same as previous Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Miloš Forman

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray, 2K master

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