Germany
Also known as: GER, DE, German
Type: Region
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Films where Germany is in a pick or an upcoming release.
Director: Peter Hyams
StudioCanal Germany (Plaion) 4K
StudioCanal Germany 4K is better than Shout! Factory. Plaion are StudioCanal’s distributor in Germany and one of their representatives revealed in a Germany forum that StudioCanal hired LSP to do the encode.
StudioCanal Germany 4K got a proper 5.1 mix instead of the Shout! Factory upmix
Director: Richard Linklater
Criterion Blu-ray/Germany Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Germany Blu-ray and Criterion Paramount no difference, just get Criterion https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=11014&d2=10022&c=4022
Germany Blu-ray has English audio
Germany Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion but by StudioCanal
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Ulysses Cut: Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Ulysses Cut: Arrow Blu-ray included in 4K Blu-ray
Director: Iain Softley
Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Plaion GER 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Plaion GER 4K Blu-ray caps
German release from Plaion has better grading and encode than the US Vinegar Syndrome releases.
Both UHDs come with Italian and English audio, as well as English subtitles.
Director: David Hogan
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray
Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray is disappointing review
Director: Peter Jackson
Arrow US/UK 4K Blu-ray or Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both will look identical in motion but the Turbine looks marginally better due to a higher bitrate allocation by each cut being given its own disc, whereas Arrow had FiM seamlessly branch the two onto one. However, Arrow has both cuts in Open Matte (on Blu-Ray) and corrected the opening Universal logo's aspect ratio. https://slow.pics/c/McvVcYDG
Directors: Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
Director: Rob Cohen
Germany Turbine 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Germany Turbine 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
comparison between the Turbine and Kino grades. The former is director-supervised.
(The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray DTS HD5.1 seems to have stronger bass, but it's yet unclear which one has the original 5.1) Also see thread.
The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray was recalled shortly after inital releases for unknown reasons.
Director: Wes Craven
Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Uncut Director's Cut: Either the Germany Kinowelt DVD, the Japan DVD, the Scandinavian DVD, or the US LaserDisc.
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Fan preservation is likely better quality.
2011 Blu-ray/2021 4K Blu-ray
The 2011 Lionsgate Blu-ray is incredibly poor for every Original Trilogy film; older processed older DVD-era masters with heavy use of DNR, sharpening and edge enhancement with a really dull color grade. The 4K Blu-ray is miles better. The DTS-HD 5.1 across all three films appears to be the same on both the Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray, and they appear to be the untouched theatrical 5.1 mixes.
The Uncut version has more violence: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=256325
Director: David Lynch
Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray slightly better
Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has best encoding. France Potemkine and Criterion UHDs slightly worse.
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Director: Roger Donaldson
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray? see caps by The HDR Dissector
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Not sure about US Film Movement Blu-ray The Germany Capelight and UK Third Window releases both use the same transfer. The Japan Bandai Visual release appears to be the same transfer but has more information on the sides. https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=16038&d2=7573&s1=170548&s2=71994&i=0&l=0
Director: John Frankenheimer
Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Roman Polanski
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray see caps. Much better contrast and grain exposure but the grade is a bit questionable as it skews heavily towards magenta in some caps and the encode looks low-pass filtered.
Atmos Remix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Imprint Australia Blu-ray or StudioCanal Germany/France Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray encoded the "Original 5.1" as lossy Dolby Digital, which is very different from the AC3 on the original DVD. This new "Original 5.1" may in fact be a downmix of the Atmos track. FWIW, the original DVD AC3 still sounds very good.
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