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409 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 191 in 4K127 in HD91 in SD36 more for audio only

Best 4K release by tier:
Based in United StatesFounded 1980warnerbros.com (opens in a new tab)

Films where Warner Bros' release is the pick. How picks are made

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, formerly Warner Home Video, is the disc arm of the Hollywood studio and part of Warner Bros. Discovery. Its catalogue covers Warner's own films plus the pre-1986 MGM, RKO and pre-1950 Warner libraries held through Turner, with a steady run of 4K UHD restorations. Rarer library titles go out through its Warner Archive Collection line.

Also known as: WB

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Films where Warner Bros' release is the pick. How picks are made

Director: Miloš Forman

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Mono: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Stereo remix: 1998 R2 WB DVD ? (more detailed)

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray is missing featurettes from the old Blu-ray

Director: Miloš Forman

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally

Audio Notes:

Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.

Directors: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Director: Michael Curtiz

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1984 Fox Hi-Fi VHS

Director: Frank Darabont

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Orson Welles

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

WB Europe 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K

Best Audio:

1984 MGM Hi-Fi VHS

Director: Clint Eastwood

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1993 WB LaserDisc

Director: Alan J. Pakula

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · hollywood-elsewhere.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (caps; grade on the BD was controversial)

Best Audio:

2006 WB DVD

Audio Notes:

Later Warner Bros Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray are minor downgrades

Director: William Wyler

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

The 4K Blu-ray 5.0 is the original mix, but more muffled than LaserDisc and even the previous Blu-ray's gentle remix. The Atmos mix is revisionist.

Additional Info:

The 50th Anniversary box set has some exclusive extras.

1991 LaserDisc is Dolby Stereo matrix encoded from the original six track master and this was later upgraded to a 5.1 Dolby Digital version prepared for the first DVD. The 5.1 version may have had some slight tweaking in the process. This was reused for the DVD CE boxset and then the 5.1 on Blu-ray seems like a slight upgrade of the DVD track. (The first pressing from the UCE boxset had audio defects rampant on the Blu-ray. These were corrected for standalone pressings.) All 5.1s sound roughly the same as the LaserDisc 2.0 in terms of the mix, but the LaserDisc PCM mastering seems like the only one that is direct without any major processing.

Director: Ryan Coogler

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

WB 4K Blu-ray, excellent Atmos mix

Director: Shaka King

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB MOD 4K Blu-ray Replacement Disc

Video Notes:

The first pressing had a botched 5.1 mix, the second one has Atmos, which is an upgrade to the Blu-ray. Encoding is good.

Director: Elia Kazan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Amazon Streaming

Director: George Miller

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray second pressing ONLY; UPC: 883929 789993

Director: Chuck Jones

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Audio:

1994 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1994 MGM LaserDisc with its caveat being audio errors that were present on every home video release until the 4K Blu-ray. See here.

Director: Andrew Davis

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Audio:

(by this comparison)
Original Dolby Stereo: Warner Bros LaserDisc 2.0 vs Warner Bros DVD?

The  (2006 or 2013?) Warner Bros Blu-ray 5.1 is similar but higher in LFE.
The atmos/5.1 on the 4K Blu-ray are a new different mix by the director.

Director: Mel Brooks

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray review

Best Audio:

1998 WB LaserDisc

Director: Doug Liman

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

4K Blu-ray or 2014 Blu-ray 7.1

Audio Notes:

4K Blu-ray or 2014 Blu-ray 7.1 (more bass but clipped)

Additional Info:

The OOP Best Buy Exclusive Blu-ray has a exclusive extra

Director: Christopher Nolan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Todd Phillips

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

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