Australia

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

Carlotta and Criterion have new resto, Carlotta slightly better encode

(Tartan/Raro/Shochiku probably the same)

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.

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)

Taiwan iFilm Blu-ray probably better?

Carlotta has 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

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

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.

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory 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

OOP Arrow LE has a bonus disc

Caps and a few remarks on the audio tracks

US GKIDS/Australia Umbrella 4K Blu-ray authored by FiM with identical encodes

UHD vs BD comparisons

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).

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

1990 CBS/Fox LaserDisc: Original Ultra Stereo mix on the Shout Factory 4K is sourced directly from the 1990 Laserdisc

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

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray