Universal Blu-ray

Universal Blu-ray 

Australia Via Vision also has a Blu-ray set but it seems to be a collab with Universal so we are assuming it's the same here.

Britain ITV Blu-ray

Britain ITV Blu-ray > Australia Imprint Blu-ray which looks artificially sharpened see caps

Australia Imprint Blu-ray

Australia Imprint Blu-ray marginally better than Paramount Blu-ray see caps

Criterion Blu-ray

Carlotta and Criterion have new resto, Carlotta slightly better encode

2009 Australia Madman DVD (Tartan/Raro/Shochiku probably the same)

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany) are the same, and significantly better than the 4K restoration (Shout Factory, Arrow, Kino Lorber), and a bit better than the MGM NTSC DVD.

Australia Imprint Blu-ray

Imprint Blu-ray

Australia Imprint Blu-ray for surround Russian and English audio/Spain A Contracorriente for monaural Russian audio

The Spain Blu-ray has the lossless mono mix (the main feature is not English-friendly however), alongside an exclusive conversation in English (with optional Spain subtitles)

The Japan DVD has a "It Is Wonderful to Create" documentary (though the disc is not English-friendly)

Australia Umbrella Blu-ray. Taiwan iFilm Blu-ray probably better?

Carlotta has 4K Blu-ray

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

See caps for Kino: caps. Here’s a particularly egregious example.

Kino Lorber has a exclusive commentary

Via Vision Australia or StudioCanal Europe 4K Blu-ray

Via Vision Australia or StudioCanal Europe 4K Blu-ray

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray for now

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray upcoming, Britain Arrow 4K Blu-ray possibly teased?

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray but bad compression

1994 Criterion LaserDisc

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray

Capelight 4K announced for 2026

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has slightly better compression than Criterion 4K Blu-ray.

The master in DV looks all but identical to the Criterion’s HDR grade. Detail-wise, FiM’s encode looks like it uncovered a tiny bit of extra high-frequency information that got filtered on the Criterion. See nicolas review

1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1993 MGM LaserDisc/2002 R2 MGM DVD are the best. See blah-ray https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/2018/01/raging-bull-1980.html

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has better audio than Criterion 4K Blu-ray, from nicolas:

I believe that what’s on Imprint’s 4K is one of the good mixes MGM and Criterion released during the LaserDisc days. Music is powerful and detailed, dialogues have excellent fidelity and ambient sounds have perceptible depth. I compared the "new" 2.0 with the anemic 5.1 as well as the Criterion 4K mix and could clearly hear the improvements.

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray for now

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray upcoming

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray but bad compression

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray for now

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray upcoming

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray but bad compression

Theatrical: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Australian Imprint 4K Blu-Ray?

TV Cut: Australia Imprint Blu-ray included in their 4K?

Spicediver Cut: Germany Plaion Blu-ray included in their Ultimate Edition release

Theatrical: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Australian Imprint 4K Blu-Ray?

TV Cut: Australia Imprint Blu-ray included in their 4K?

Spicediver Cut: Germany Plaion Blu-ray included in their Ultimate Edition release

Universal 1998 DVD has the original 70mm 6-track mix in Dolby Digital 5.1

Dolby Stereo: Arrow 4K Blu-ray (5.1 mix is an inferior remix)

OOP Arrow LE has a bonus disc

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > 2025 Germany Constantin Film 4K Blu-ray > 2021 Germany Constantin Film 4K Blu-ray caps

• Imprint has a FiM encode, DV and lossless audio.

• Constantin 2025 has a solid encode, DV but lossy DTS-HD HR audio.

• Constantin 2021 has bad encoding, HDR10 only and lossy audio.

Imprint 4K Blu-ray has the best audio among all UHDs

Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD

International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray

Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray

Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD

International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray

Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray

Australia Cut: Laserdisc

The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray or Australia Via Vision? > US MVD

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray or Australia Via Vision? > US MVD

MGM/UA Home Video US LaserDisc [ML104742]

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray for now

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray upcoming, Britain Arrow 4K Blu-ray possibly teased?

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray but bad compression

Britain or Germany or Australia Blu-ray

All releases are old transfer