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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: Guy Hamilton

4K · Solid
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1988 MGM VHS Hi-Fi, 1988 LaserDisc analog

Additional Info:

Criterion LaserDisc includes an exclusive commentary, which was later banned by EON and caused the release to be recalled.

Director: John Frankenheimer

4K · Solid
Best Audio:

1994 MGM LaserDisc

Director: Terence Young

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain

Best Audio:

UK mix: 1984 CBS Fox VHS Hifi but missing one scene
International mix: WB 4K Blu-ray though source origin is unknown

1995 MGM stereo remix: 1998 LaserDisc and 2000 DVD fix gunbarrel dropout

Director: John Ford

Best Audio:

1992 MGM LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The audio on the Warner Archive Blu-ray is appalling. It starts to cutoff at around 6kHz to have nothing above 10kHz. The LaserDisc is much more full-frequency.

Director: Chuck Jones

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1994 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1994 MGM LaserDisc with its caveat being audio errors that were present on every home video release until the 4K Blu-ray. See here.

Directors: Val Guest & Ken Hughes & John Huston & Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish

Best English-Friendly:

MGM Blu-ray 

Best Video:

MGM Blu-ray despite dated master

Best Audio:

Sony Columbia 1994 LaserDisc Mono

Director: John Boorman

4K · Excellent

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Original: 35mm scans or Disney LaserDisc (1.33:1 open matte)

Restored: Disney Limited Issue DVD (1.33:1 open matte)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Later Disney DVDs and Blu-ray are altered

Best Audio:

35mm scans or Disney LaserDisc

Director: Mike Nichols

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best Video:

StudioCanal 4K

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

Video Notes:

StudioCanal 4K caps.Criterion Blu-ray better encode than StudioCanal Blu-ray.

Best Audio:

1987 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Mario Bava

4K · Excellent
Best Audio:

Original Italian/English dubs: UK Masters of Cinema 4K Blu-ray
Export English dub: Paramount LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

MoC ported the export dub from LaserDisc, but used a low quality transfer, with poor lossy encoding.

Additional Info:

MST3K version: Vol XXXIX DVD / episode 1013: series finale of the original show.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent

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

Video Notes:

Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering; WB 4K early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed. Comparison between Criterion and WB.

Best Audio:

6-Track 70mm mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set), 1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD
35mm Mono Mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Matrixed Stereo Remix: MGM Japan LaserDisc (1985) [G158F5509]
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Roman Polanski

4K · Disappointing
Best Video:

Paramount disappointing 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1998 Paramount LaserDisc or 2004 R2 Paramount DVD

Director: Norman Jewison

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1993 MGM LaserDisc

Director: George Dunning

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

2012 Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

1999 DVD has an exclusive music only track not ported to any other release

Best Video:

2012 Blu-ray for UK edit

1987 US LaserDisc for US edit 

Director: Roger Vadim

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1994 Paramount LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(arguable, but without the noise gating on the Arrow)

Director: Sergio Leone

4K · Solid

Director: Haskell Wexler

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is slightly better than MoC Blu-ray: while both are from a 4K restoration approved by director, MoC is more sharpened but gamma is flatter see caps

Best Audio:

Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc see blah-ray

Criterion and MoC Blu-ray has the same audio, and additional (destructive) hiss reduction was applied, and one segment was made significantly louder.

Also, every home video release except the 1982 Paramount VHS cassette replaces Wild Man Fischer's 'Merry-Go-Round' in the roller derby scene with a version of 'Sweet Georgia Brown' by Brother Bones. Two very different songs, and one must assume that the tone of the scene has changed considerably

Director: Peter R. Hunt

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best Video:

4K Streaming

Sources: 007homemedia.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Warner Bros Blu-ray is the best Blu-ray even though it has color and major contrast issues
4K SDR master on streaming seems to be from the same scan and looks like it has less tinkering than the Blu-ray
Caps of 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Best Audio:

MGM 1991 LaserDisc

Director: Bob Rafelson

4K · Solid
Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1990 Criterion LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(still not great)

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is similar but has a short scene where the hum from machinery at the oil rig has been attentuated. It's a decent improvement over the previous disc which had considerable bass reduction.

Director: George Lucas

Best Video:

Original US cut, European cut, and Italian cut: 35mm scans

1977 reissue cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc

2004 George Lucas director's cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original US cut, European cut, and Italian cut: 35mm scans

1977 reissue cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc

2004 George Lucas director's cut: Warner Bros DVD

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