Dogwoof

3 films on Best Blurays

Based in United KingdomFounded 2003dogwoof.com ↗

Andy Whittaker founded Dogwoof in London in 2003, and it distributes documentaries in the UK, along with some foreign-language features. It releases films in cinemas and on DVD, Blu-ray and occasionally 4K UHD, such as Apollo 11, sold through its own shop, and runs an international sales arm, Dogwoof Sales, set up in 2011.

Aliases: dogwoof

Hoop Dreams (1994)

Director: Steve James

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion or UK Dogwoof

Best Video:

Criterion and UK Dogwoof probably similar

4.4

The Act of Killing (2012)

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

Best English-Friendly:

UK Dogwoof Blu-ray vs US Drafthouse Blu-ray: see below

Best Video & Audio:

DE Koch Media

Video Notes:

DE Koch Media is presented in the correct 25fps and is likely better compressed than UK Dogwoof (29 vs 14 Mbps), but it doesn’t have English subtitles.

US Drafthouse is in 24fps for Region A compatibility, and is encoded at around 30 Mbps.

(Although bitrate does not solely determine the quality of the encode, the difference is large enough here and there are no publicly available caps.)

No info on the JP VAP Blu-ray.

Audio Notes:

DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.

4.4

Apollo 11 (2019)

Director: Todd Douglas Miller

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

UK Dogwoof 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

But has disappointing reddish color grade. Other releases to be examined. Also see review

Audio Notes:

(The audio bitrates on the UK 4K Blu-ray and its included Blu-ray are very different, although they are supposed to be the same.)

4.1

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