Wayne Knight
11 films on Best Blurays11 in 4K
Biography from TMDB
Leading role · Director: Joe Pytka
Caveat: no Dolby Vision metadata from streaming
Warner Bros LaserDisc Dolby Digital 5.1
The old Fullscreen DVD has some exclusive extras
Supporting role · Director: Kenneth Branagh
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is encoded in a wrong color space see post "A BT2020->P3 matrix corrects the issue (ignore tonemapping related errors)"
Supporting role · Director: Gus Van Sant
Supporting role · Director: Paul Verhoeven
Lionsgate and StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray share the same video master: both have considerable improvement over the old awful Blu-ray but marred by teal grading and DNR. Lionsgate is additionally better compressed than StudioCanal.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has the original theatrical 2.0 track, sourced from LaserDisc (absent on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray), but the 5.1 track has issues which are not present on their new Blu-ray (LFE channel is missing, and instead it's the back left surround duplicated)
Supporting role · Director: John Lasseter
The international version replaces the American flag in Buzz’s speech with a spinning CGI globe and the American Anthem is replaced with an exclusive piece by Randy Newman titled the ‘One World Anthem’. Bizarrely the 2005 UK DVD retains the US anthem while having the CGI globe.
The original November 1999 end credits start a second earlier on the theatrical versions (found on bootleg telesyncs) rather than the 2001 or 2005 DVDs.
Small role · Director: Steven Spielberg
2025 Universal 4K Trilogy Steelbook / 2026 standalone
2025 Universal 4K Trilogy Steelbook / 2026 standalone is better than previous disappointing 2022 4K Blu-ray (excessive DNR). Not a whole new scan but the grain has been left mostly intact.
Cinema DTS is OG 5.1 mix.
Otherwise: 2022 4K Blu-ray’s DTS:X remix is more faithful than 2026’s Atmos remix.
3D Blu-ray’s 7.1 remix has reportedly less distortion than the OG 5.1 mix, and is presumably more faithful than the DTS:X remix.
Small role · Director: Oliver Stone
Theatrical Cut 4K Blu-ray in August
Director's Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Shout! Factory Blu-ray (included with collector's edition)
Theatrical Cut: The Shout UHD DTS-HD 2.0
Theatrical Cut: The Shout UHD DTS-HD 2.0 seems to be the same mix overall as the 1992 laserdisc PCM 2.0 but its not a straight port. Even though there are some minor differences, it does not seem to be a downmix of the 5.1. It could possibly be a new mastering. It has just a tiny bit more dynamic range than the laserdisc, but the laserdisc has a bit more presence in the lower and midrange frequencies.
Small role · Director: Oliver Stone
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