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Eureka UK > Kino Lorber US

Mono: Kino Lorber US Blu-ray possibly?

> Plaion Germany Blu-ray see caps

HD transfer from Original Camera Negative

Not sure if the 2025 restoration is the same one, see MoMA

Arrow UK Blu-ray or Twilight Time US Blu-ray but OOP, no comparison

(preference)

UK Indicator Blu-ray or US Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray no comparison available but both from the same Academy 4K restoration

(caveat: it's missing a minute of footage, plus usual PAL speed-up)

All Blu-ray tracks originate from the same transfer, but with strong noise gating and terrible EQ, adding a compensatory bass and treble boost, sounding boomy and accentuating the hiss despite less detail.

UK MoC Blu-ray has the better encoding

US Kino Lorber Blu-ray has inferior encoding and likely suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Eureka MOC is far superior to Kino with also more printed booklet extras. The reconstruction work, transfer and extras date back to MGM's Laserdisc attempt. The LD master and materials were ported to the MGM DVD which in turn was paired with an updated HD master for the BDs. The film still cries out for a proper modern restoration and reconstruction attempt with the partially surviving cut sequences. The extras on LD also have PCM audio and one of the visuals in one of the cut episodes is more untouched which is censored for nudity on the modern versions. It's small but the particular element has been blurred on most versions today.

US RaroVideo Blu-ray or UK MoC Blu-ray has no discernible difference even though MoC has more bitrate, see caps Both OOP

Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray is also OOP, not English-friendly and has no caps for comparison.

UK BFI and France Carlotta very similar

With better detail and grading than the China 4K Blu-ray. Comparisons

But all are within the margin of error, minus Criterion

Gorgeously filmic 2K remaster supervised and approved by Jerry Schatzberg from Fox and flawlessly encoded by FiM.

> US Twilight Time Blu-ray see caps

Indicator UK or ESC France Blu-ray no comparisons. Indicator is a newer release and HD remaster, so I assume ESC is the same.