Films

From Fus1on:
Because this is a Judd Apatow comedy from the mid-2000s, it's not quite a stunner in 4K, but it's a MASSIVE improvement from that god-awful 2008 Blu-ray. Very nice grain management, and none of that awful edge enhancement from the old Blu-ray.

Criterion 4K Blu-ray see Chris's review

It's a conservative regrade over previous Blu-ray https://slow.pics/c/CyqhRf9W

PE3 was reportedly slowed down to (NTSC) 24fps without pitch correction on all region's 4K Blu-ray, therefore it would sounds lower. Also see.

Paramount US vs Entertainment in Video UK - comparison. From nicolas

I think this film is strikingly ugly and it ultimately doesn't matter much which one to take. Paramount's looks low-pass filtered (as usual) which Entertainment in Video doesn't have but it looks like they did some filtering of the chroma but compression-wise, both could be better.

From nic: his one got an Analogue Intermediate and didn’t get any noticeable filtering from Paramount! It looks quite good but the encode struggles with some of the highlights and there’s some chroma noise in DV. Still much better than what they usually do with their catalogue titles.

From nicolas:

preferable to the UK disc as it's got Dolby Vision even though it’s not encoded on a BD-100 as the UK. While the Shudder encode isn’t particularly accomplished, it does its job and retains the film’s excellent detail, very fine noise without any discernible filtering.

Film Archiv Austria BD is claimed to be as close to the 1933 Vienna version as possible. See caps

It is restored from a contemporary 35mm nitrate print from Cinémathèque Suisse, a 35mm acetate print from Filmarchiv Austria, and a duplicate negative of the work Symphonie der Liebe (1935) from Národní fillmový archiv Prague.l

Film Archiv Austria BD also contains the 1935 version of Symphonie der Liebe, as well as final sequence comparisons

But it has been restored see MoMA

But it has been restored see MoMA

No comparison available 

See DVDBeaver for the whole fiasco but Kino Lorber's main feature was a DNR mess but it fortunately included the "raw" version. VCI initially had a bitrate < 10 Mbps but have sent out new disc with bitrate around 35 Mbps.

UCLA has a new restoration done in 2015, but no release yet

Only VCI has optional subtitle and commentaries, while Kino Lorber doesn't

While there are no screen cap comparisons, Germany Capelight Blu-ray has more versions than Universal:

From BR forum:
The original film is 155 min but in the Universal restoration, only 133min was available (survived), and for Capelight it has

• Germany 1930 dub (103 mins)

• Germany 1952 dub (127 mins)

• International version (133 mins)

• New extended version (141 mins) with never before released footage from one of the Germany versions (+ 8 mins)

• Germany TV versions in SD (tinted, silent)

One nitrate Technicolor print did survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and it was restored and preserved in 1990.

Serial Squadron's Eric Stedman seemed to did another restoration in 2016

WB has confirmed that a copy of it is in archive but the movie is in public domain, so not likely to get a release any time soon.

Unfortunately really soft due to source material, but it is scanned in 4k, so it's the best possible release for now.

Criterion Blu-ray although MoC OOP Blu-ray looks similar, it's likely slightly worse

The 2025 BFI Blu-ray isn't a new remaster, and itonly has a Pet Shop Boys score. it's somehow more cropped than the 2012 BFI Blu-ray.

See caps https://slow.pics/c/MaYpZjsV 2012 BFI Blu-ray > 2025 BFI Blu-ray (cropping) > 2010 Kino Lorber Blu-ray (worse PQ)

For the length it's also different and not just intros:

• BFI 2025: 1:15:06

• BFI 2012: 1:08:49

• Kino Lorber: 1:12:12 the Russian intertitles playlist is 1:11:48

Given the DVD is released the same year the film is restored, it's likely the same "digitally scanned in 4K from color-tinted 16mm prints derived from the original 35mm camera negative" by UCLA and The Packard Humanities Institute