The Hollywood studio's disc arm began in 1976 as Paramount Home Video and now sits under Paramount Skydance. Since 2020 its Paramount Presents line has put classic Paramount and DreamWorks titles out on remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Alliance Entertainment has handled US and Canadian physical distribution since January 2025, with regional partners such as Eagle Pictures, ESC and Happinet abroad.
Paramount
217 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 157 in 4K56 in HD3 in SD1 with no official release12 more for audio only
- Excellent21
- Solid49
- Superior Imports1
- Good in DV Only4
- Disappointing15
- Worse Than BD10
Films where Paramount's release is the pick. How picks are made
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Films where Paramount's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: Wes Craven
Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Uncut Director's Cut: Either the Germany Kinowelt DVD, the Japan DVD, the Scandinavian DVD, or the US LaserDisc.
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Fan preservation is likely better quality.
2011 Blu-ray/2021 4K Blu-ray
The 2011 Lionsgate Blu-ray is incredibly poor for every Original Trilogy film; older processed older DVD-era masters with heavy use of DNR, sharpening and edge enhancement with a really dull color grade. The 4K Blu-ray is miles better. The DTS-HD 5.1 across all three films appears to be the same on both the Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray, and they appear to be the untouched theatrical 5.1 mixes.
The Uncut version has more violence: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=256325
Director: Billy Wilder
Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice
Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono
Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.
The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.
Director: Roman Polanski
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
1991/1998 Paramount LaserDisc
Director: Ridley Scott
Paramount/Universal 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Paramount/Universal 4K Blu-ray but: it has a few shots that are blurrier than the older Blu-ray, for unknown reasons see BR post.
Cinema DTS or Signature Collection DVD AC-3
Director: David Fincher
Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, see more in Geoff's review
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
1995 Paramount LaserDisc
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael Mann
Paramount/Plaion Spain/Italy 4K Blu-ray
Paramount/Plaion Spain/Italy 4K Blu-ray has better encoding than the US 4K Blu-ray.
Paramount US 4K Blu-ray
The EUR 4K has missing dialog.
Directors: Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
1990 Paramount LaserDisc
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray review
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Paramount 4K Blu-ray, a very good 2k upscale
Director: Michael Gracey
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Paramount US vs Entertainment in Video UK - comparison. From nicolas
I think this film is strikingly ugly and it ultimately doesn't matter much which one to take. Paramount's looks low-pass filtered (as usual) which Entertainment in Video doesn't have but it looks like they did some filtering of the chroma but compression-wise, both could be better.
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