Germany

Germany Turbine Mediabook Blu-ray has a superior MPEG-4 AVC encode over the US Sony Blu-ray's MPEG-2 or France/Australia Universal Blu-ray's VC-1. Open matte version also included

Germany Turbine Mediabook Blu-ray is completely uncut and uncensored, having none of Sony US's PG-13 edits or Pathé UK's BBFC horse trip cuts.

4K remaster is cropped 2.35:1 from the original 2.55:1 presentation, and has significantly different color grading, as is the case with most WKW supervised restorations. Due to DNR the detail is sometimes lacklustre compared to the old master. CGI scenes appear to be rerendered. A sepia tinted scene was altered to be fully black and white.

Caps: Criterion US BD vs Cannes HD-DVD, HD-DVD vs KR BD vs DVDs vs US BD

The remixed track has different front panning and little LFE use compared to the original.

HD-DVD is by far the best option for the original track, as DVDs and Korean BD suffer from noise gating, limiting and duplicated surrounds. Remixed tracks are all similar, but French disc has slightly better dynamics, particularly on the LFE channel.

The 2006 HD-DVD is a promotional release made in only 100 copies, handed out to VIPs at Cannes Film Festival. See this blog post for details. The same master can be found on KR BD, though it suffers from interlacing, blended frames and a gamma bug, as well as older DVD releases.

(for the extended cut and extras)

Germany Nameless collection is uncut except Dream Cruise

DK Zentropa/Germany Blu-ray presented in original 25fps framerate. Otherwise, Criterion Blu-ray.

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Universal 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray

DE Koch Media is presented in the correct 25fps and is likely better compressed than UK Dogwoof (29 vs 14 Mbps), but it doesn’t have English subtitles.

US Drafthouse is in 24fps for Region A compatibility, and is encoded at around 30 Mbps.

(Although bitrate does not solely determine the quality of the encode, the difference is large enough here and there are no publicly available caps.)

No info on the JP VAP Blu-ray.

DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.

S1: OOP Shout! Factory Blu-ray
S2 & 3: Australia Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray for the uncut episodes?

Fox US/Universal Germany/France releases looks similar, see caps https://slow.pics/c/FF1TYBgc

Fox US https://slow.pics/c/nLZ7rFRj

Germany has more extras while the US has a exclusive commentary

• Caps for France vs Germany vs UK vs Turkish release https://slow.pics/c/jYBS2CWE not sure what the correct grading is but Germany release looks too dark

UK New Wave Blu-ray, compared to the US Adopt Blu-ray, has the making of documentary and no burned in subtitles

English subtitles for the director's commentary in German are only available in the UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray

Germany Capelight has Atmos, for the commentaries, France Metropolitan

Germany Capelight has Atmos and more extras