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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.

Aliases: paramount

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Director: David Lynch

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal France / Arthaus Germany 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

British StudioCanal 4K Blu-Ray upcoming

Best Audio:

5.1 on 4K Blu-ray is a remix. Original 5.1 is best on 2012 Japan Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Brian Helgeland

Best English-Friendly:

US Paramount Blu-ray for better picture quality of the director's cut

Warner Bros UK Blu-ray for having both cuts of the film

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

US Paramount Blu-ray has a better encoding of the director's cut see caps but only Warner Bros UK Blu-ray has both cuts of the film

Best Audio:

Warner Bros UK Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Warner Bros UK Blu-ray has Dolby TrueHD audio

Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: Trey Parker

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: Alexander Payne

4K · Good in DV Only
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: Sam Mendes

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Cameron Crowe

Best English-Friendly:

UK Sony 4K Blu-ray (HMV Exclusive with both cuts)

Best Video:

UK Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(HMV Exclusive with both cuts, slightly better encoding than the US Paramount)

Best Audio:

US Paramount

Audio Notes:

US Paramount is 24 bit compared to Sony's 16 bit

Additional Info:

US Paramount has more extras

Director: John Woo

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

The DTS-HD 5.1 from some of the international Blu-rays and the TrueHD 5.1 on the 4K Blu-ray are similar.

Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount/Universal 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

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.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS or Signature Collection DVD AC-3

Director: Kenneth Lonergan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

But their grade doesn't exceed 100 nits, it's just SDR.

https://slow.pics/c/F3u2viqj which is why those comps match near exactly. The 4K Blu-ray here has been clipped (i.e. all values above SDR range were thrown out), not tonemapped.

Best Audio:

Paramount DVD (slightly)

Director: Wes Craven

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: John A. Davis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Stephen Chow

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Theatrical (102 min): Korea Ultimate Edition DVD

Director's Cut (112 min): Japan Paramount Blu-ray

International Cut (88 min): Korea Blu-ray

Director: Simon West

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: Cameron Crowe

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Superior Imports
Video Notes:

> Paramount US. Overall good, superior compression to the US disc

Director: Steven Spielberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Paramount Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> International WB Blu-ray

Director: Gore Verbinski

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Julie Taymor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Paramount Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France StudioCanal Blu-ray has worse encoding and is more cropped at top and bottom see caps

Director: Steven Spielberg

4K · Solid

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