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264 films on Best Blurays

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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.

Aliases: sony, columbia

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Director: Wesley Ruggles

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

R1 Sony MOD DVD-R

Director: Richard Wallace

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony DVD

Director: Alexander Hall

Best English-Friendly:

Sony Columbia Classics VHS

Sources: amazon.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Sony Columbia Classics VHS see Amazon

Director: George Stevens

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Orson Welles

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 Columbia VHS (slightly)

Director: Robert Rossen

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: George Cukor

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

4K Streaming

Directors: Robert Cannon & John Hubley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony DVD

Director: Ted Parmelee

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 2 Blu-ray

Director: Fred Zinnemann

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

Director: Elia Kazan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1994 Columbia LaserDisc

Director: Robert Aldrich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony OOP Joan Crawford in the 1950s DVD

Additional Info:

Sony still has the DCP see MoMA

Director: David Lean

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook

Video Notes:

/ (2019? Sony 4K Blu-ray with the mono)

Best Audio:

1985 RCA/Columbia Hi-Fi VHS

Director: Nathan Juran

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Otto Preminger

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray Columbia Classics Vol 2

Best Audio:

1986 RCA/Columbia LaserDisc

Director: J. Lee Thompson

4K · Excellent
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: David Lean

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.

Director: George Sidney

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

Video Notes:

While no comparison available, Twilight Time Blu-ray is OOP and reviewers say the transfer is likely the same

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode

Best Audio:

1994 LaserDisc (marginally)

Director: Fred Zinnemann

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 5 4K Blu-ray

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