4K Blu-ray

> US Kino Lorber

UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras

US Paramount has poor encoding

(forced, but not hardcoded France subs, no English subtitles)

Sony currently only available in the Sony Classics US set

(4K Blu-ray is upscaled; former PDI animator Jonathan Gibbs confirms the film was originally rendered at 1828 pixels wide to save space)

The old 2 disc DVD has extras missing from 4K Blu-ray

> Criterion 4K Blu-ray. 

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and doesn’t have the low-pass filter the Criterion 4K Blu-ray has.

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is closer to the original DVDs than the 2015 Criterion release, not sure about whether the StudioCanal 4K is like the Criterion 4K/original DVD

Criterion 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision, StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has MEL

Universal 4K Blu-ray 25th Anniversary Edition (with Dolby Vision), comparisons: #1, #2

The 2026 re-release corrects cropping and grading on some VFX shots, otherwise it's the same master with better encoding.

The old BD (2009 with many later identical re-releases) is very good, compared even to the theatrical DTS track, over which it has a slight edge thanks to discrete LFE (as theatrical DTS tracks derive LFE from other channels).

The 2018 4K includes a relatively tasteful DTS:X remix, the 2026 #4K includes a more revisionistic Dolby Atmos remix, with more added foley effects and a significant frequency roll-off. Neither of the remixes is as punchy as the original mix.

US Paramount Blu-ray > International WB Blu-ray

Russia Sony Blu-ray has a superior 24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 original mix compared to the 16-bit LPCM 5.1 on other Blu-ray releases and the 16-bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on the 4K Blu-ray included with the Dolby Atmos remix.

(StudioCanal has 5.1 and is slightly sharper and not low-pass filtered, both have differing extras) (capsule review)

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has the original 5.1 audio

both 4K Blu-rays have differing extras

Caps by cinemaniac, which look great but the old Sony master doesn’t look too bad and Indicator has a Fidelity encode