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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

191 of 409 films match · Page 10 of 10

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

Director: Lee Cronin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Todd Phillips

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Griffin Dunne

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Paul King

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: David Yates

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: David Yates

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Michael B. Jordan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio

Director: Steven Caple Jr.

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Director: Christopher Nolan

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray has Excessive DNR

Director: Guillermo del Toro

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Cineverse 4K Blu-ray announced with a new 4K restoration from the original negatives

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray both have issues, up to preference. UK Optimum/Japan Amuse Soft Blu-ray is better, Criterion is worse

Japan Amuse Soft Blu-ray is better encoded than the Optimum, is in the original 1.85 ratio, and has the original colors

Best Audio:

2011 Optimum Blu-ray has audio in wrong pitch, fixed in 2013 reissue in the Zavvi exclusive Steelbook. Criterion has correct 5.1 and a 7.1 mix.

Additional Info:

Criterion and Optimum Blu-rays have exclusive extras

Director: Steven Soderbergh

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

3 with a weaker 4K

Best 4K release rated Disappointing or Worse Than BD · by Letterboxd rating

Director: Christopher Nolan

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray has Excessive DNR

Director: Guillermo del Toro

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Cineverse 4K Blu-ray announced with a new 4K restoration from the original negatives

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray both have issues, up to preference. UK Optimum/Japan Amuse Soft Blu-ray is better, Criterion is worse

Japan Amuse Soft Blu-ray is better encoded than the Optimum, is in the original 1.85 ratio, and has the original colors

Best Audio:

2011 Optimum Blu-ray has audio in wrong pitch, fixed in 2013 reissue in the Zavvi exclusive Steelbook. Criterion has correct 5.1 and a 7.1 mix.

Additional Info:

Criterion and Optimum Blu-rays have exclusive extras

Director: Steven Soderbergh

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

25 for audio only

The best audio is Warner Bros'; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Best Audio:

Turbine Germany Blu-ray, WB DVD(?)

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

Best Audio:

2004 WB DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Director: Martin Rosen

Best Audio:

2002 R2 WB DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI 4K Blu-ray

Director: Morton DaCosta

Best Audio:

Warner Bros NTSC DVD

Sources: mega.nz (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

For the most part, the mono track available on the BD and UHD is fine, but there's an 8 minutes long segment which sounds terrible with artificially expanded frequency range causing very audible artifacting. The 5.1 remix doesn't have that issue. Sample

Best English-Friendly:

Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray from 12K scan

Director: John Waters

Best Audio:

Stereo: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

5.1: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Mike Hodges

Best Audio:

2000 R1 WB DVD (slightly)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI 4K Blu-ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

Best Audio:

1991 WB LaserDisc

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Second Sight 4K Blu-ray

Director: Taylor Hackford

Best Audio:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · +3 more

Audio Notes:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is more filtered than Warner Bros Blu-ray, although differences may not be audible.
(While the LaserDisc 2.0 is reportedly better clarity in dialogue?)

Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD

Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD with this red message: "The large white sculpture of human forms on the wall of John Milton's penthouse in "The Devil's Advocate" is not connected in any way and was not endorsed by the sculptor Frederick Hart or the Washington National Cathedral, joint copyright owners of the Cathedral sculpture "Ex Nihilo" in Washington D.C.".

Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray see caps

Additional Info:

DV Plot. For those curious, the sculpture is still the altered one found on the re-issued DVDs, and previous Blu-ray.

5.1 audio on the Shout (either be 1080p or 2160p) was 16-bit, with more roll-off than the Warners one, the Warners was very similar to the NTSC and in terms of balance of the mix, while the Shout seems to be tinkered with, with the score at the beginning and at the end sounding worse on Shout.

Audio Comparisons: Slow.pics

For the regular commentary found on the NTSC DVD "Original Version" (there's no difference including the other NTSC DVD), Shout or Warners; the Shout commentary was just a bloated lossy transcode with some EQ. The best one was from either of the two DVDs.

Commentary Comparisons: Slow.pics

Now there's another commentary; it's basically the same commentary but has some parts different than the others, it can be found on EUR PAL DVD with subs for said commentary. The subs for it doesn't sync for the commentary #1 and vice-versa. Samples

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Best Audio:

Director's cut: 2007 WB Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

Director's cut: 2007 WB Blu-ray; Arrow is a lossy transcode with dynamics compression.
2007 BD's AC-3 track with dynamic range compression enabled is nearly identical to Arrow's, see comparison

Theatrical cut is fine.

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Both cuts are excellent in 4K. See caps

Director: Terence Fisher

Best Audio:

Warner Bros 2002 DVD

Audio Notes:

Warner Bros 2002 DVD has the best sounding mono

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Hammer & Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Hammer & Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray are confirmed by Randy Miller to be identical down to the encode, the only difference being different studio logos.

Directors: Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer

Best Audio:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray / Warner Bros Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

(no audible difference)

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jan de Bont

Best Audio:

2008 Warner Bros US Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

The EU disc from Universal has neutered bass.

4K Blu-ray Atmos track is much more compressed in all channels.

Best English-Friendly & Video:

EU Universal 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

DE Turbine is similar in quality, US Warner Bros is worse (caps: EU vs US, EU vs DE)

The 4K discs have different color timing to the older master, see caps.

The 2012 DE Turbine disc is the master as the 2008 US Warner Bros, only with some sharpening and a layer of added grain.

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