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Documentary Educational Resources NTSC DVD has best video at proper fps, but hardcoded English subtitles and hard to obtain.

Dutch PAL DVD has wrong fps, but has English subtitles for most of the film, except intertitles

Kino Lorber OOP Blu-ray is exactly the same restoration as the later Paramount Blu-ray, however Paramount Blu-ray runs at a much faster 24fps while Kino Lorber runs at 21fps. According to Paul Cuff's research into the correct fps and length, Kino Lorber is closest to the original 22fps by repeating frames to achieve 21fps in 24fps.

• Kino Lorber has the same Bellon score as Paramount VHS and Paramount Blu-ray, but obviously Paramount Blu-ray runs a faster tempo due to changed fps

• The Bellon score never uses the “Kashmiri Song” that is cited in the film’s intertitles and sung by Valentino on screen. This may well be because the intertitles of the VHS version (for which the score was composed) are from the reissue print, which changes the wording of the Sheik’s song—and thus loses the context of the original song.

• While no substitute for a real orchestra, the theatre organ score by Ben Model for the Kino Lorber edition at least quotes the “Kashmiri Song” at the appropriate moments.

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From Fus1on

while the encoding is mostly fine, there are some pretty bad compression issues, especially in brighter areas of the image. In the other thread, users have done comparisons between the 4K Blu-ray and the Streaming version, and actually found that the Streaming release has less macroblocking in these specific sections. Overall video quality is mostly solid, with not much of a detail increase from previous BDs. HDR looks great. The Atmos track this film comes with is also good, but it's not a huge upgrade compared to the 5.1 mix from past release

Caveat: Some minor compression artifacts are visible in brighter/darker areas of the images

Paramount 4K Blu-ray captures more grain in image 6&24, but Shout! Factory Blu-ray is very good see caps

4k resto. It has both original negative image cut (not tinted) and a first gen tinted cut owned by BFI but not English-friendly

35mm restoration print is available

The only physical release of the 3D version is an anaglyph DVD, which is worse resolution than the full colour digital HD release.

2K restoration but not English-friendly