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Director: Simon Wincer
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray or UK/Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Director: Martin Campbell
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Australia Umbrella 4K Blu-ray (native 4K sourced) is better than Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray which is an upscale, not a true 4k source see caps
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)"
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Japan TC Entertainment
Encoding wise Japan TC Entertainment > old UK StudioCanal Blu-ray (see caps) > Paramount Blu-ray (see cap)
StudioCanal Blu-ray seems to possibly suffer from Quicktime Gamma Bug
Both Paramount and Japan Blu-ray are 1.78:1, not the original aspect ratio of 1.85:1
No caps or comparison available for Imprint or other releases.
Director: Gavin Millar
Sources: lddb.com (opens in a new tab)
Japan Tohokushinsha Home Video LaserDisc [K88L-5085]
Japan Tohokushinsha Home Video LaserDisc [K88L-5085] possibly?
Director: Kevin Smith
Umbrella 4K Blu-ray > Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode on Umbrella 4K Blu-ray)
TV series
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
The streaming "HD" versions are AI upscaled see comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peoOlsq9mr8
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Germany Plaion Blu-ray has better encoding and Kino Lorber Blu-ray likely suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug, see caps
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps
Director: John Cassavetes
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Criterion is warmer and more lifelike than BFI. See DVDBeaver review for more caps
BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug
Criterion has better encoding and doesn't have the bug so that's preferable.
