Iron Man 3 (2013)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction • 2h 10m
Director: Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau, Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, Stephanie Szostak, Paul Bettany, William Sadler, Dale Dickey, Ty Simpkins, Miguel Ferrer, Wang Xueqi, Shaun Toub, Matthew Sterling Nye, Pat Kiernan, Josh Elliott, Megan Henderson, Thomas Roberts, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, George Kotsiopoulos, Bronte D'Esposito, Noah Visconti, Ashley Hamilton, Brooke Jaye Taylor, Kim Holderness, Glenn Foster, Anthony Reynolds, Kendrick Cross, Brian Schaeffer, John Eddins, Spencer Garrett, Rockey Dickey Jr., Drew Michael Hershner, Sarah Burkhardt, Jan Broberg Felt, Andrew Lauer, Nate Bynum, Andrew Lander, Tom Virtue, Roy McCrerey, Serdar Kalsin, Demetrois Hodges, Bobby Tisdale, Yvonne Zima, Stan Lee, Adam Pally, James Rackley, Cullen Moss, Jake De Witt, Rebecca Mader, Kevin Arnold, Juan C. Bofill, David Anthony Buglione, Adam Lytle, Paul O'Connor, Phil Ortiz, Gwendalyn Barker, Steve Wilder, Luciana Faulhaber, Kary Musa, Mike Massa, Mark Kubr, Si-Fu Eric Oram, Naomi Parshin, Aurelia Riley, Johanna Yunda, Wesley Thompson, Jenna Ortega, Toochukwu T.C. Anyachonkeya, Chad Kurtz, Cal Johnson, Corey Hawkins, Linden Ashby, Sarah Farooqui, Sala Baker, Kial Butler, Nick Brandon, Fernando Chien, Ilram Choi, Brycen Counts, Kiante Elam, Dane Farwell, Mark Fichera, Colin Follenweider, Aja Frary, Mark Ginther, Adrian Gonzalez, Dennis Keiffer, Samuel Le, Tara Macken, William Morts, Jade Quon, J. C. Robaina, Markos Rounthwaite, Philip J. Silvera, Brian Simpson, Mark Aaron Wagner, Chris Gethard, Nick W. Nicholson, Bridger Zadina, Mark Ruffalo, Johnny Otto, Noa Lindberg, Ron Madoff
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray for non-DNR version
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but is inferior with more washed out colors and inferior encoding plus no hardcoded subtitles for the Portuguese language parts
Director: Jon Favreau
Director: Jon Favreau
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Director: James Gunn
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Disney Blu-ray for non-DNR version
Director: Shane Black
Second Sight's 4K appears to have a delay on the Atmos track. Second Sight hasn't officially addressed this yet. The original 5.1 is fine.
2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray
Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release
Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray
English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio, and 2003 DVD is a fake 5.1 upmix
Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals
English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan remastered LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Ga Ippai Collection boxset
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Michael Bay
Video format: HD Streaming
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K possibly teased?
Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.
The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.
The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design.
Director: Chris Columbus
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Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray or US Disney Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · lddb.com (opens in a new tab)
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/6JWnlfit
All sources are within margin of error. Comparisons: Japanese, English
Alternate Streamline English dub is available only on 1994 Fox LD.
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Video format: 4K Streaming
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