Films

Germany Turbine Mediabook Blu-ray has no DNR or sharpening from past releases

Germany Turbine Mediabook Blu-ray has the Hong Kong English subtitles instead of the censored Miramax subtitles.

Miramax Blu-ray has lossy Mandarin audio and does not have the director's cut.

Atmos track on Arrow cuts off the end credits music 1 minute before the credits end. 5.1 doesn't have this issue.

Digital 4K appears to be fixed. Could the International WB 4K Blu-ray also be fixed?

US Paramount has poor encoding

> French Metropolitan 4K Blu-Ray > WB 4K Blu-Ray

Britain StudioCanal/French Metropolitan 4K Blu-Ray has a exclusive director's solo commentary.

MVD 4K Blu-ray beautiful remaster but with frame rate skips (encoding error)

Film4/Spirit Blu-ray has worse encoding, presented in 1.78:1 and is from an older master caps

US GKIDS Blu-ray for both original French audio and English dub

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray on the box set has inferior encoding than the standalone release, but includes the theatrical (:3.0) and older Blu-ray (:3.33) cuts on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray is an upscale, but has less compression artifacts, it also includes the theatrical cut (:2.0) on standard Blu-ray as a bonus.

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray is an upscale, but has less compression artifacts, it also includes the theatrical cut (:1.0) and the DVD cut (:1.01) on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.

Universal 4K Blu-ray 25th Anniversary Edition (with Dolby Vision), comparisons: #1, #2

The 2026 re-release corrects cropping and grading on some VFX shots, otherwise it's the same master with better encoding.

The old BD (2009 with many later identical re-releases) is very good, compared even to the theatrical DTS track, over which it has a slight edge thanks to discrete LFE (as theatrical DTS tracks derive LFE from other channels).

The 2018 4K includes a relatively tasteful DTS:X remix, the 2026 #4K includes a more revisionistic Dolby Atmos remix, with more added foley effects and a significant frequency roll-off. Neither of the remixes is as punchy as the original mix.

Caveat: Songs are only in Japanese, even with the English dub selected.

JP Toho 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Japanese audio with English songs, and US OOP Funimation Blu-ray for the English dub with English songs

(US GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a higher bitrate than the Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray, but improvements are minimal, if visible.)

Most international releases have a green tint. Only the Japan Toho and US GKIDS releases have no such issues.

2016 Sony US Blu-ray (caps)

The US disc has a better encode and original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. French disc is flawed, with chroma bleed and blocking throughout.

2016 Sony US Blu-ray / 2012 Pathé FR Blu-ray (identical)

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray for both the original Japanese and the Amazon English dub

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray has higher bitrate and better encoding than the Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray. Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray on the box set has inferior encoding, but includes the theatrical (:3.0+1.0) and streaming (:3.0+1.01) cuts on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.

Disk Kino World Cinema Library 4K UHD Blu-Ray has Cantonese track in Dolby Atmos and TrueHD 7.1, but English dub is only available on the MoC Blu-Ray in LPCM 2.0 (MoC's Cantonese track is also LPCM 2.0). Criterion Blu-Ray's Cantonese track is DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.

Disk Kino 4K was limited to only 600 copies in China and is OOP. Of the available Blu-Ray releases done from the 4K restoration, Criterion's video has better color and detail than the MoC release, but MoC features dual audio in both Cantonese and English and more commentary tracks. 

Japan Blu-ray has the theatrical cut "Death & Rebirth"

Japan Archives of Evangelion DVD has the TV cut "Death (true) & Rebirth"