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Director: Jonathan Demme

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

A24 4K Blu-ray

Director: George Roy Hill

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1998 R1 Universal DVD

Director: Robert Wise

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.

All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.

TV series

Video format: DVD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Japanese Version: OOP 2019 US Discotek Japanese Complete Series SD Blu-ray

English Version: OOP 2017 US Discotek English Complete Series SD Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(caveat: marginally worse quality)

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Germany Koch Media DVD has exclusive extras

Director: George B. Seitz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Upcoming Release:

Warner Archive Blu-ray in October

Director: William Dieterle

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 4 DVD

Upcoming Release:

Warner Archive Blu-ray in Oct

Director: Jack Conway

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HBO Max HD Streaming

Upcoming Release:

Warner Archive Blu-ray in Oct

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Apple TV HD Streaming

Upcoming Release:

Warner Archive Blu-ray in October

TV series

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

4K Streaming

Upcoming Release:

Alliance 4K Blu-ray

Director: S. S. Rajamouli

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Zee5 Streaming

Upcoming Release:

France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December

Best Video & Audio:

Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality

Audio Notes:

Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio

Director: Ivan Passer

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)

Audio Notes:

Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.

Director: Kane Parsons

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Canada Elevation 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> US A24 comparisons

Best Audio:

US A24 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Frank Oz & Jim Henson

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

Shout! Factory's 2.0 is a downmix of the 5.1

Additional Info:

Old Sony DVD has an isolated score

Director: Jim Henson

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory replacement 4K Blu-ray

Sources: lddb.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Shout! Factory doesn't have the low-pass filter that's on the Sony US 4K Blu-ray from 2021 with Dolby Vision (or the worse HDR10 only release from 2016). Shout! Factory retains more high-frequency grain and detail.

Directors: Neil Nightingale & Barry Cook

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Fox 3D Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Fox 3D Blu-ray has both the theatrical cut and the "Cretaceous Cut"

Additional Info:

Fox 3D Blu-ray has both the theatrical cut and the "Cretaceous Cut" which removes the dialogue and the framing device, essentially serving as a director's cut of the film. The "Cretaceous Cut" is not available on the 2D Blu-ray or on digital streaming.

Director: Michael Gracey

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Caveat: No Dolby Vision metadata from Streaming

Best Audio:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Louis Leterrier

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but is inferior with more washed out colors and inferior encoding plus no hardcoded subtitles for the Portuguese language parts

comparison

Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Universal Blu-ray has the original DTS-HD 5.1

For the 7.1 remix, the DTS-X of the Universal is clipped on the front speakers while the Atmos of the M6 is a very tame mixdown.

Directors: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Amazon MGM 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Amazon MGM 4K Blu-ray SteelBook with mixed aspect ratio 1.43:1/2.39:1

Director: Philip Kaufman

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming on iTunes or WB DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

MGM DVD has a 5.1 remix