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
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Films where Sony's release is the pick. How picks are made
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: Edward Zwick
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 2024 steelbook with added Dolby Vision
Best Audio:
JPN LaserDisc [PILR-7013]
Director: Herbert Ross
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray (review)
Director: Luc Besson
Best English-Friendly:
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.
StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.
2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.
2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps
Best Audio:
2007 Sony Blu-ray or LaserDisc AC3? (TBC) https://fanrestore.com/thread-7303.html
Audio Notes:
The Atmos on the Sony release is reportedly better than StudioCanal's.
Additional Info:
Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray for the separate release. Columbia Classics doesn't have Dolby Vision.
Director: David Ayer
Best English-Friendly:
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Best Video:
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixed some previous issues
Best Audio:
Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Additional Info:
2025 4K Blu-ray is missing Tanks of Fury documentary from previous 2018 4K Blu-ray
Director: Ridley Scott
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 2023 steelbook 4K Blu-ray release
Best Audio:
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 2023 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
Sony 4K UHD steelbook
Additional Info:
The steelbook reissue adds a more nuanced Dolby Vision HDR grading compared to the original UHD. The UHD is also the first ever release of the original four track stereo mix in a discrete presentation without any major processing. It is far superior to the existing 5.1 remix which was a bit modernized. The Atmos remix is laughably overdone and not at all befitting a film of this era.
Director: Richard Attenborough
Best English-Friendly:
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Best Video:
2025 Sony Steelbook
Video Notes:
> 2020 Columbia Classics boxset.
Best Audio:
1994 Columbia LaserDisc
Director: John Carpenter
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar
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