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LaserDisc

245 films on Best Blurays

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Films where LaserDisc is in a pick or an upcoming release.

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray although MoC OOP Blu-ray looks similar, it's likely slightly worse

Best Audio:

Only the MoC edition has the Gaylord Carter organ score from the old VHS/LaserDisc release while Criterion has only the orchestral score by Robert Israel and electronic/percussion score by Alloy Orchestra.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Video format: HD Streaming

Sources: digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de (opens in a new tab) · moma.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Official Bundersarchiv 720p HD Streaming

Video Notes:

Official Bundersarchiv 720p HD Streaming which given its release in 2025, likely to be the same new restoration by MoMA https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11559

Best Audio:

Carl Davis Score: 1993 MGM/United Artists LaserDisc 

Director: Tod Browning

4K · Solid
Best Audio:

1991 CIC Video LaserDisc

Director: James Whale

4K · Solid
Upcoming Release:

Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026

Best Audio:

1993 CIC Video LaserDisc

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best Video:

Criterion Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1997 MCA Universal 'The Lubitsch Touch' LaserDisc Box Set

Additional Info:

The 1997 LaserDisc has more high end detail in the audio than the new restoration

Director: Karl Freund

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Universal Monster Collection Vol 2 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1993 CIC Video LaserDisc

Directors: Gus Meins & Charley Rogers

Best Video:

Original 1934 Theatrical Version: US Legend Films Blu-ray

1950 Reissue Version: OOP 1980s US VHS

Samuel Goldwyn 1991 Colorized Version: US Image Entertainment/GoodTimes LaserDisc or US GoodTimes DVD

Legend Films 2006 Colorized Version - 2D: US Legend Films Blu-ray

Legend Films 2006 Colorized Version - 3D: US Legend Films 3D Blu-ray

Director: Tod Browning

Best Audio:

1996 MGM LaserDisc

Director: Fritz Lang

Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1993 MGM LaserDisc

Directors: David Hand & Ben Sharpsteen & William Cottrell & Larry Morey & Perce Pearce & Wilfred Jackson

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Mono track is on the included Blu-ray; 4K Blu-ray missing original mono. LaserDisc probably better

Directors: William Keighley & Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2008 WB Blu-ray (from a 2003 transfer)

Best Audio:

1988 Criterion LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(Still not great)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Best Video:

Criterion vs Network Blu-ray?

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1989 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Victor Fleming

4K · Solid
Best Video:

2D: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro

Best Audio:

1989 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(caveat: "there's" in first "there's no place like home" utterance in final Kansas scene truncated)

Director: Frank Capra

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1995 Columbia LaserDisc

Director: Howard Hawks

4K · Excellent

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray (not by much, caps)

Best Audio:

Closest to original: 1995 Columbia LaserDisc

But Sony 4K Blu-ray is the best available one.

Audio Notes:

From cbc:

I much prefer the 4K Blu-ray track. LaserDisc has several nasty constant hums, and even after you remove that, the detail level is on-par with the 4K Blu-ray and has a lot of crackling. The 4K Blu-ray has some variable noise reduction, but it's done well and non-intrusive IMO, I watched it with that track and was happy.

Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.

Best Video:

Censored: 2010 Disney Blu-ray
Uncensored: 35mm Scan

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

See caps of Blu-ray vs DVD

Best Audio:

1991 CAV LaserDisc

Audio Notes:
  • 1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.

  • The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.

  • The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design. 

Director: George Cukor

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Best Audio:

1986 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1987 VHS probably even better

Directors: Ben Sharpsteen & Norman Ferguson & Bill Roberts & Jack Kinney & Wilfred Jackson & Samuel Armstrong

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

1995 LaserDisc or 2001 60th anniversary release DVD

Best Audio:

1995/1982 LaserDisc, DVD only contains 5.1 remix

Director: Orson Welles

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k restoration

Best Audio:

1989/1993 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1991 MCA LaserDisc

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