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.
Warner Bros
409 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 191 in 4K127 in HD91 in SD36 more for audio only
- Excellent60
- Solid65
- Disappointing4
Films where Warner Bros' release is the pick. How picks are made
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
WB 4K Blu-ray
WB 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: Christopher Nolan
WB 4K Blu-ray
WB 4K Blu-ray has Excessive DNR
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Cineverse 4K Blu-ray announced with a new 4K restoration from the original negatives
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
3 with a weaker 4K
Best 4K release rated Disappointing or Worse Than BD · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Christopher Nolan
WB 4K Blu-ray
WB 4K Blu-ray has Excessive DNR
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Cineverse 4K Blu-ray announced with a new 4K restoration from the original negatives
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
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
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Rosen
2002 R2 WB DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Morton DaCosta
Sources: mega.nz (opens in a new tab)
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
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray from 12K scan
Director: John Waters
Stereo: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
5.1: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Mike Hodges
2000 R1 WB DVD (slightly)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Martin Scorsese
1991 WB LaserDisc
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2024 Second Sight 4K Blu-ray
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
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?)
Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD
Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
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
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
Director's cut: 2007 WB Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
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.
Both cuts are excellent in 4K. See caps
Warner Bros 2002 DVD
Warner Bros 2002 DVD has the best sounding mono
Hammer & Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray
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
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray / Warner Bros Blu-ray
(no audible difference)
Director: Jan de Bont
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The EU disc from Universal has neutered bass.
4K Blu-ray Atmos track is much more compressed in all channels.
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