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

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

5.1 mix: Criterion Blu-ray

2.0 mix: Sony 4K Blu-ray

3.8

Easy Rider (1969)

Director: Dennis Hopper

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony UK 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.8

Tootsie (1982)

Director: Sydney Pollack

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.8

Starship Troopers (1997)

Director: Paul Verhoeven

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray

3.8

Moon (2009)

Director: Duncan Jones

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

3.8

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Director: Fred Zinnemann

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

3.8

The City of Lost Children (1995)

Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray vs StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray?

3.8

SLC Punk (1998)

Director: James Merendino

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Currently only available in the Sony Pictures US set

3.8

The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray or UK StudioCanal

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Sony currently only available in the Sony Classics US set

3.8

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Director: Jon Watts

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Extended/IMAX Cut: Bravia Core Streaming in 4K

3.8

The Big Blue (1988)

Director: Luc Besson

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal / Gaumont / Sony 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

SC caps. Great-looking 4K master except for DNR'd higher-gen shots such as the opening sequence. StudioCanal resolves finer detail but has encoding issues in highlights, the non-Original Camera Negative shots and traces of chroma noise. Sony used a low-pass filter which makes the film look less sharp and finely detailed but the encode is more consistent.

3.8

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 2022 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Sony 2022 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray for Dolby Vision, original forced subtitles, updated a few scenes (see caps), and a few new extras on the 4K Blu-ray disc.

3.7