I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Horror, Drama • 1h 40m
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Cast: Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst, Conner O'Malley, Emma Portner, Madaline Riley, Amber Benson, Albert Birney, Michael C. Maronna, Danny Tamberelli, Timothy Allan, Tyler Dean Flores, Elizabeth Scopel, Marlyn Bandiero, Haley Dahl, Raina Block, Bailey Wollowitz, Lily Rothman, Phoebe Bridgers, Kris Esfandiari, Wilson Flores, Thommy Northcut, Julie Lodhy, Kenneth Kyle Martinez
About the film
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.
Featured in Films/TV shows with a 1080p Blu-ray, but a higher quality master is found elsewhere
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Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Michael Bay
Video format: HD Streaming
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K possibly teased?
Director: Simon West
Video format: 4K Streaming
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Marc Forster
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Video format: 4K Streaming
Streaming has the original theatrical Dolby Atmos mix
Disney/Fox Blu-ray only has a 5.1 downmix
Kaleidescape is lossless (TrueHD 7.1), others are all lossy (E-AC-3 5.1 JOC) at varying bitrates.
Streaming: Kaleidescape
Streaming: Kaleidescape > Movies Anywhere > Disney+
Director: Martin Campbell
Video format: 4K Streaming
Video format: 4K Streaming
4K Streaming
Sources: 007homemedia.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros Blu-ray is the best Blu-ray even though it has color and major contrast issues
4K SDR master on streaming seems to be from the same scan and looks like it has less tinkering than the Blu-ray
Caps of 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Director: Kane Parsons
Canada Elevation 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Canada Elevation 4K Blu-ray > US A24 comparisons
USA Lionsgate/A24 4K Blu-ray for Dolby Atmos mix
Netherlands Remain in Light 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Auro-3D mix
(caveat: no English subtitles for Mandarin/Cantonese dialogue)
Director: Spike Lee
Director: Charlotte Wells
Director: Ari Aster
Theatrical Cut: Germany 4K Blu-ray
Director's Cut: A24 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Japan 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut Blu-ray has extras that the DC 4K Blu-ray lacks
Directors: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
More Horror on Blu-ray
Director: Roman Polanski
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379
Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: Bernard Rose
Scream Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Turbine 4K Blu-Ray
SF and Turbine also have the 2004 Audio Commentary with Bernard Rose, Clive Barker, Alan Poul and actors Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd and Kasi Lemmons
Director: Peter Jackson
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both will look identical in motion but the Turbine looks marginally better due to a higher bitrate allocation by each cut being given its own disc, whereas Arrow had FiM seamlessly branch the two onto one. However, Arrow has both cuts in Open Matte (on Blu-Ray) and corrected the opening Universal logo's aspect ratio. https://slow.pics/c/McvVcYDG
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Criterion 4K Blu-ray also includes exclusive "Reborn Cut"
Director: Lam Nai-choi
88 Films UK or Vinegar Syndrome US Blu-ray (preference)
Different color gradings, 88 Films disc is encoded by FiM but Vinegar Syndrome encode (by Marcus Johnson) is more than robust
Vinegar Syndrome potentially has better audio than 88 Films, due to VinSyn possibly having EQ'd the audio mix after Fortune Star scanned the track in a way that makes it sound too hot, whereas 88 left it alone without addressing that issue. However, no direct comparisons exist
Director: Tobe Hooper
4K Blu-ray has both the original Dolby Stereo mix and a 5.1 remix.
HBO Max Streaming includes the theatrical version with original credits, goofs. 1080p with the 5.1 remix
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering, 1.85 ratio restored for US Cut; both US and International Cuts are 4K.
US Cut: 1999 WB DVD/Criterion 4K Blu-ray
No Blu-ray or DVD release until the Criterion 4K Blu-ray has presented the US in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The International Cut has never been presented in it's OAR of 1.66:1 in any home video releases.
The packaging on the back of the WB 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
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