Sony

259 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 176 in 4K64 in HD19 in SD5 more for audio only1 more announced

Best 4K release by tier:

Excellent
66
Solid
51
Disappointing
2
Worse Than BD
3

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Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, based in Culver City, handles disc releases for Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics. Its asset management team, long led by Grover Crisp, restores the Columbia library in-house from 4K and 8K negative scans, and the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD box sets collect many of those restorations. Since 2024 it also manufactures and distributes Disney's discs in North America.

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Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made

64 in HD

Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating

A Separation (2011)

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

4.4

The Lives of Others (2006)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Best English-Friendly:

Sony Blu-ray

Best Video:

Old Sony Blu-ray

4.3

Amélie (2001)

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Best English-Friendly & Video:

All BDs are similar. Sony Blu-ray probably best encoding but cuts off last few seconds of music

Upcoming Release:

UK Curzon Blu-ray in July

Best Audio:

Korea Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Korea Blu-ray has less limiting, proper 24-bit audio, and does not cut off the last few second of music

4.2

The White Ribbon (2009)

Director: Michael Haneke

Best English-Friendly:

Sony Blu-ray

Best Video:

Sony

Video Notes:

Sony > Artificial Eye

4.2

Amour (2012)

Director: Michael Haneke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

4.2

A Prophet (2009)

Director: Jacques Audiard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

4.2

The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Best English-Friendly:

Taiwan Sony Blu-ray

Best Video:

Carlotta Blu-ray, HD transfer, also available in a set

Best Audio:

2006 Japan Kinokuniya DVD

4.0

The Fog of War (2003)

Director: Errol Morris

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

4.0

Toni Erdmann (2016)

Director: Maren Ade

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray vs Soda

4.0

The Passenger (1975)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray or Indicator Blu-ray

4.0

The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

Director: Ted Parmelee

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 2 Blu-ray

3.9

The River (1997)

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Taiwan Sony Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Taiwan has Blu-ray, old transfer

3.9

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Best 4K release rated Disappointing or Worse Than BD · by Letterboxd rating

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Director: James Mangold

4K · Worse Than BD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

European Sony Blu-ray

Video Notes:

European Sony Blu-ray is the best. 4K Blu-ray has DNR applied to film out of the 2K DI, better depth and blacks than the US Blu-ray

Best Audio:

US Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

US Blu-ray has a 7.1 track

3.8

Tekkonkinkreet (2006)

Director: Michael Arias

4K · Worse Than BD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

GKIDS 4K Blu-ray is a sharpened upscale. Caps

Best Audio:

GKIDS 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a true lossless English dub and correct volume levels for the Japanese audio

Additional Info:

GKIDS has correct English subtitles that change a few lines from the director-approved dubtitles, to match with the Japanese dialogue better while still remaining true to director Michael Arias' intent. The corrected GKIDS subtitles are director-approved.