Disney started distributing its films on video in 1980, traded as Buena Vista Home Video from 1987 and has used the Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment name since 2007. The label covers Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios titles on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Sony has made and distributed its North American discs since 2024, and Disney cut its home-entertainment publicity team in April 2026.
Disney
183 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 125 in 4K58 in HD7 more for audio only
Best 4K release by tier:
- Excellent12
- Solid33
- Disappointing3
- Worse Than BD2
Films where Disney's release is the pick. How picks are made
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Films where Disney's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: David Fincher
Best English-Friendly:
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray for a purist version
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · notonbluray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray for a purist version or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray from the original 1999 telecine transfer
Video Notes:
Disney 4K Blu-ray, while a good release by itself, is very revisionist albeit made by Fincher. It has a huge amount of tinkering, a different grade, and at times uncanny with the sharpening. Caps of just how revisionist the new master is.
Best Audio:
Audio Notes:
All Blu-ray tracks have significant limiting.
Disney 4K Blu-ray has some alterations, otherwise similar to the Fox Blu-ray
Additional Info:
A blog article going over the home video history of Fight Club: https://notonbluray.com/blog/fight-club-compared-blu-ray-vs-itunes-vs-d-vhs-vs-dvd-vs-laserdisc/
Director: John Lasseter
Best English-Friendly:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
2010 Disney Blu-ray for unedited "outtakes"
2001 Disney DVD widescreen version for original theatrical credits
Best Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
2001 Disney DVD for the original 6.1 mix
Additional Info:
The international version replaces the American flag in Buzz’s speech with a spinning CGI globe and the American Anthem is replaced with an exclusive piece by Randy Newman titled the ‘One World Anthem’. Bizarrely the 2005 UK DVD retains the US anthem while having the CGI globe.
The original November 1999 end credits start a second earlier on the theatrical versions (found on bootleg telesyncs) rather than the 2001 or 2005 DVDs.
Director: Lee Unkrich
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
2010 Disney Blu-ray for the original 7.1 mix
Additional Info:
The UK version has different voice actors for one of the three army men and all three of the Peas-in-a-pod.
The South African version has Jeremy Mansfield (a famous radio personality) as the voice of Chatter Phone.
Best English-Friendly:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
2001 DVD for uncensored cut with rock and extras
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray, caps
Best Audio:
Disney Blu-ray
Audio Notes:
4K Blu-ray only has an Atmos remix with a phasing issue
Director: Chris Columbus
Best English-Friendly:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Video Notes:
Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened
Directors: Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
Best English-Friendly:
Original Theatrical Version: 35mm scans or 1995 Disney Deluxe Edition CAV LaserDisc box set
Later Versions: Disney 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
Original Theatrical Version: 35mm scans or 1995 Disney Deluxe Edition CAV LaserDisc box set
Video Notes:
Later Versions: Disney DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Blu-ray are altered
Directors: Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook
Best English-Friendly:
2020 Disney 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
Digital re-render: 2020 Disney 4K Blu-ray, caveat: no Dolby Vision metadata from 4K Streaming
Original theatrical 35mm render: WOWOW HDTV broadcast
Best Audio:
1999 Disney DVD for original theatrical mix
Directors: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
IMAX Version: Disney+ Streaming
Directors: Joe Russo & Anthony Russo
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
IMAX Version: Disney+ Streaming or Digital Master Rip found online
Director: Tim Burton
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Fox/Disney 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Upcoming Release:
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Video Notes:
The compression is poor, but it still beats the previous Blu-ray. (Luminance plot)
Audio Notes:
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The 4K Blu-ray only has Atmos which is possibly the original mix, but the previous Blu-ray’s 4.0 sounds good too.
Additional Info:
Directors: Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Best English-Friendly:
Original Theatrical Version: 35mm scans
Later Versions: Disney 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
Original Theatrical Version: 35mm scans
Video Notes:
DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Blu-ray are altered
Best Audio:
1992 Disney LaserDisc or 35mm scans
Audio Notes:
1992 Disney LaserDisc or 35mm scans for OG stereo mix
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Disney Blu-ray for non-DNR version
Directors: Byron Howard & Rich Moore
Best English-Friendly & Video:
2D: 2019 Disney 4K Blu-ray, caveat: No Dolby Vision metadata from streaming
3D: 2017 Disney 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Best Audio:
2019 Disney 4K Blu-ray
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Disney 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
BD LPCM 5.1
Audio Notes:
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
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