Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Horror, Action, Science Fiction • 1h 34m
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti, Christopher Egan, Spencer Locke, Matthew Marsden, Linden Ashby, Jason O'Mara, Mike Epps, Joe Hursley, James Tumminia, Madeline Carroll, Valorie Hubbard, Carrie Eklund, Brian Steele, John Eric Bentley, Kirk B.R. Woller, Rick Cramer, Peter O'Meara, William Abadie, Ramón Franco, Shane Woodson, Geoff Meed, Rusty Joiner, Connor McCoy, Carolina Jiménez, Gary A. Hecker, Martin Crewes, Richard Epcar, Stefen Hayes, Gary Hudson, Ryan McCluskey, Carsten Nørgaard, César Ámigo Aguilar
US Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 6 months ago
(better compression than France 4K Blu-ray)
Overview
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in the 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
> France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray (better compression on the Sony disc)
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
> France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray (slightly better encoding on the Sony)
France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray
> Sony 4K Blu-ray (slightly better encoding on France 4K Blu-ray, not sure if the new Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook with DV is better) (note for the new Sony Steelbook, the forced subtitles are missing, France 4K Blu-ray probably doesn't have them too)
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray
> Sony 4K Blu-ray (better compression on the France 4K Blu-ray, not sure if new Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook with DV is better)
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray
> Sony 4K Blu-ray (better compression on the France 4K Blu-ray, not sure if new Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook with DV is better)
Director: Luc Besson
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.
StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.
2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.
2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps
2007 Sony Blu-ray or LaserDisc AC3? (TBC) https://fanrestore.com/thread-7303.html
The Atmos on the Sony release is reportedly better than StudioCanal's.
Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Frank Capra
Director: John Carpenter
Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)
Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar
Director: Michael Arias
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray is a sharpened upscale. Caps
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a true lossless English dub and correct volume levels for the Japanese audio
Director: David Fincher
4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael Apted
Video format: HD Streaming
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