Sony

264 films on Best Blurays

Based in United StatesFounded 1978sonypictures.com ↗

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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Bad Boys (1995)

Director: Michael Bay

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

3.3

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Director: Ang Lee

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray Columbia Classics Vol. 2

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

Video Notes:

The 2025 stand-alone MOD edition is worse in encoding quality.

3.9

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Director: Sam Raimi

4K · Excellent

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

3.5

The Celluloid Closet (1996)

Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Currently only available in the Sony Pictures US set

3.9

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Director: Cameron Crowe

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

3.6

The Fifth Element (1997)

Director: Luc Besson

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (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:

2025 Sony US 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

2025 Sony US 4K Blu-ray has the original 5.1.

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 Germany 4K 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.