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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Marie Antoinette (2006)

Director: Sofia Coppola

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2016 Sony US Blu-ray

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

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray announced

Video Notes:

2016 Sony US Blu-ray (caps)

The US disc has a better encode and original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. French disc is flawed, with chroma bleed and blocking throughout.

Best Audio:

2016 Sony US Blu-ray / 2012 Pathé FR Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

2016 Sony US Blu-ray / 2012 Pathé FR Blu-ray (identical)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Director: Adam McKay

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray see caps

Click (2006)

Director: Frank Coraci

4K · Disappointing

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony MOD 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Sony MOD 4K Blu-ray has terrible compression

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Director: Ron Howard

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

2026 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook

Best Video:

2026 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook added Dolby Vision

3.2

Volver (2006)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Currently only available in the Sony Pictures US set

Additional Info:

English Dub is found on the UK DVD

4.1

Paprika (2006)

Director: Satoshi Kon

4K · Disappointing

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Sony 4K Blu-ray is very smeary with the upscaling but has correct aspect ratio and very good HDR grade.
UK Blu-ray has wrong colors, and Sony 2007 Blu-ray is the worst (encoding and AR)
See professorwho's review

4.1

The Lives of Others (2006)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Best English-Friendly:

Sony Blu-ray

Best Video:

Old Sony Blu-ray

4.3

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

Director: Takashi Miike

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Japan Sony Blu-ray for the extended Japanese cut

US MVD Blu-ray for the international cut

Best Audio:

Japan Sony Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Japan Sony Blu-ray for the original theatrical 6.1 audio mix

30 Days of Night (2007)

Director: David Slade

4K · Worse Than BD

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

US Sony Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK ICON 4K Blu-ray is disappointing - caps. Filmout scan with grain management and overall less detail than the Blu-ray.

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Director: James Mangold

4K · Worse Than BD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

European Sony Blu-ray

Video Notes:

European Sony Blu-ray is the best. 4K Blu-ray has DNR applied to film out of the 2K DI, better depth and blacks than the US Blu-ray

Best Audio:

US Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

US Blu-ray has a 7.1 track

3.8

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook

Video Notes:

(better compression than France 4K Blu-ray)

2.6

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Director: Sam Raimi

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Editor's Cut: Sony Blu-Ray

3.2

Persepolis (2007)

Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

Best English-Friendly:

English dub on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or older Sony/StudioCanal Blu-ray

Best Video:

France/Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

4.2

Breaking Bad (2008)

TV series

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

Also Streaming in 4K on Netflix and Stan

The Class (2008)

Director: Laurent Cantet

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons but Artificial Eye doesn't look like a new transfer, so likely Sony is better. Because this is shot on HD digital and transferred to 35mm, not expecting any improvement in the future either.

3.7