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
Director: Tom Holland
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Audio Notes:
Eureka Blu-ray's stereo sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray stereo
Additional Info:
Twilight Time has an isolated score
Director: Martha Coolidge
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
(small caveat: the OG 2.0 track has not been cleaned up)
Director: Sam Raimi
Best English-Friendly:
US Cut: Sony 2025 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: France 4K Blu-ray
Best Video:
US Cut: Sony 2025 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray (2025 Steelbook has Dolby Vision)
International Cut: France 4K Blu-ray
Director: David Fincher
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
HDR caps by fkid. Obviously this is a huge improvement after what was available until now. Still, the early 2000s nature of the film is palpable and more noticeable, f.ex. in the opening scene that looks upscaled but seemingly without AI usage or any egregious tools. No info yet about what Fincher actually changed and where he tinkered around. Also see samlop10's review
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray included in the Luc Besson Collection
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Sony 4K Blu-ray included in the Luc Besson Collection see caps
Additional Info:
Original DVD has a few exclusive extras like a isolated score
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Luis Llosa
Best English-Friendly:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray see caps
Director: Martin Scorsese
Best English-Friendly & Video:
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Best Audio:
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: David Fincher
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Additional Info:
4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
Russia Sony Blu-ray
Audio Notes:
Russia Sony Blu-ray has a superior 24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 original mix compared to the 16-bit LPCM 5.1 on other Blu-ray releases and the 16-bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on the 4K Blu-ray included with the Dolby Atmos remix.
Director: John G. Avildsen
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Sony 2022 boxset or 2024 VHS packaging 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
Sony 2022 boxset or 2024 VHS packaging has Dolby Vision, 2019 Sony 4K Blu-ray is HDR10 only.
Best Audio:
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray (any)
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray (any)
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