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Director: Robert Clampett
Warner Bros Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber Blu-ray suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps
Kino Lorber Blu-ray from blah-ray:
Both the Plaion and Arrow audio tracks sound like they received little/any high- or low- frequency attenuation, but the audio on the new Kino Lorber restoration is much more detailed. It's likely that it was transferred from different (superior) analogue elements. It sounds excellent.
Director: Charlie Chaplin
BFI or Flicker Alley Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxsets
BFI or Flicker Alley Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxsets use the same restoration, no comparison available
BFI Blu-ray has commentaries while Flicker Alley doesn't
Director: Ida Lupino
2013 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
2013 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is better than the Kino Lorber 2019 Remastered Blu-ray which supposed used a "newer" 2K restoration
From caps while 2013 Blu-ray is more sharpened, more details are indeed kept in the older Blu-ray than the newer one.
Director: Brian De Palma
Paramount 4K Blu-ray despite issues
Laserdisc Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 matrix Dolby Surround, VHS hifi 2.0 Dolby Surround, Cinema DTS
The film was remixed for the first DVD to remove a great deal of the bass and tame the LFE channel. Every version since uses this revised mix. Only the Laserdisc and release prints have the original theatrical 5.1 discrete mix. The 2.0 matrix version also has the low end intact on LD and VHS. Just demo the main title or the aquarium restaurant glass explosion and you’ll note the difference immediately.
The first DVD while porting the LD and vhs master is where the audio remix happened. The remix still sounds good but it was an unnecessary compromise to place on one of the great mixes of all time. The UHD also uses the remix.
The Paramount UHD is ok though it has some frozen grain and some HDR issues as expected of a screwy Paramount master.
Directors: Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton
MoC or Kino Lorber Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 Blu-ray boxset
(a newer restoration by Lobster Films compared to the older 1920-1923 boxset)
No comparison between MoC and Kino Lorber available
MoC boxset has more extras and commentary tracks, while also providing a 184-page book, a substantially better extras package compared to Kino Lorber
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Theatrical Cut: Warner Bros US 2-disc Deluxe Edition DVD set
Extended Cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray
See cut information: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4167
Theatrical Cut: Cinema DTS
Extended Cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Director: Stephen Norrington
(France 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but removes the theatrical forced subtitles, also has some shots worse than the Warner Bros 4K)
DTS-HD 6.1 from the Blu-ray?
Theatrical Cut: 2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director's Cut: 2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Better compression than Sony
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
US Ignite 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
US Ignite 4K Blu-ray see caps



















