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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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Directors: Val Guest & Ken Hughes & John Huston & Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish

Best English-Friendly:

MGM Blu-ray 

Best Video:

MGM Blu-ray despite dated master

Best Audio:

Sony Columbia 1994 LaserDisc Mono

Director: James Clavell

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

Director: Stanley Kramer

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 4 4K Blu-ray

Director: Carol Reed

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Dennis Hopper

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony UK 4K Blu-ray

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Cut: 2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director's Cut: 2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Better compression than Sony

Director: Adrian Maben

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2026 Sony/Columbia 4K Blu-ray

Director: David Greene

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

Directors: Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Majority of film (theatrical and extended cuts): 1991 Columbia US VHS (or possibly 1994 Columbia LaserDisc?)

32-second scene (extended cut): 1993 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray or Indicator Blu-ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Excellent
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: Martin Ritt

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray see caps

Director: Steven Spielberg

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Robert Benton

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 4 4K Blu-ray

Director: Sam Raimi

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook

Unaltered version: 2007 Ultimate Edition DVD? Or 35mm scan

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook, correct audio pitch and more bonus features

Confirmed to be a port of Sony's international 4K, encode different to Lionsgate's. Audio in the correct pitch and a cross-selection of archive extras where the Lionsgate had only one audio commentary. High Def reviewer thought the 2.0 was a mixdown of the 5.1 track.

Unaltered version: 2007 Ultimate Edition DVD? Or 35mm scan

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

LaserDisc has the original Mono

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray audio is in the wrong pitch while the Sony release is in the right pitch

Additional Info:

All releases after 2010 have digital alterations to some scenes. https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=999332

Director: Albert Brooks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Sony Blu-ray uses a newer 4K master than Indicator and is noticeably better see caps

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Best English-Friendly:

Sony Blu-ray

Director: Ivan Reitman

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray Columbia Classics Vol 2

Directors: Gerald Potterton & John Bruno & John Halas & Julian Harris & Jimmy T. Murakami & Barrie Nelson & Paul Sabella & Jack Stokes & Pino Van Lamsweerde & Harold Whitaker

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Richard Attenborough

4K · Excellent
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

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