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.
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:
- Excellent66
- Solid51
- Disappointing2
- Worse Than BD3
Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made
64 of 259 films match · Page 1 of 4
Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: Michael Haneke
Best English-Friendly:
Sony Blu-ray
Best Video:
Sony
Video Notes:
Sony > Artificial Eye
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
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Director: Laurent Cantet
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony Blu-ray
Video Notes:
No comparisons but Artificial Eye doesn't look like a new transfer, so likely Sony is better. Because this is shot on HD digital and transferred to 35mm, not expecting any improvement in the future either.
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