Paths of Glory 1957 REPACK 2160p UHD Blu-ray Remux DV HDR HEVC FL...
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SIZE............: 58.1 GiB
RUNTIME.........: 1 h 27 min
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Codec...........: HEVC, Main 10@L5.1@High Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, Profile 7.6, dvhe.07.06, BL+EL+RPU,
no metadata compression,
Blu-ray compatible / SMPTE ST 2086, Version HDR10, HDR10 compatible
Resolution......: 3840x2160
Bit rate........: 91.7 Mb/s
Frame rate......: 23.976 FPS
Color primaries.: BT.2020
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 713 kb/s
Language........: English (Mono Mix)
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Format..........: Dolby Digital
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 192 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by film critic Gary Giddins)
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Format..........: Dolby Digital
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 192 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by documentarian/author Steven C. Smith and producer James B. Harris)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 725 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 724 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by novelist and critic Tim Lucas)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 173 kb/s
Language........: No linguistic content or not applicable (Isolated Score and Effects Track)
SUBTITLES.......: English (US) (American)
SUBTITLES.......: English (GB) (British)
SUBTITLES.......: English (US) (American / SDH)
SUBTITLES.......: English (US) (American / SDH / PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: English (GB) (British / SDH)
SUBTITLES.......: English (GB) (British / SDH / PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: Arabic
SUBTITLES.......: Catalan
SUBTITLES.......: Cantonese (Hant) (Hong Kong / Traditional)
SUBTITLES.......: Chinese (Traditional)
SUBTITLES.......: Danish
SUBTITLES.......: Dutch
SUBTITLES.......: Filipino
SUBTITLES.......: Finnish
SUBTITLES.......: French (FR) (Metropolitan)
SUBTITLES.......: French (FR) (Metropolitan / PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: German
SUBTITLES.......: German (PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: Hebrew
SUBTITLES.......: Indonesian
SUBTITLES.......: Italian
SUBTITLES.......: Korean
SUBTITLES.......: Norwegian
SUBTITLES.......: Polish
SUBTITLES.......: Portuguese (BR) Portuguese (Brazilian)
SUBTITLES.......: Portuguese (PT) Spanish (European)
SUBTITLES.......: Spanish (ES) (Castilian)
SUBTITLES.......: Spanish (Latin America) Spanish (Latin American)
SUBTITLES.......: Swedish
SUBTITLES.......: Thai
SUBTITLES.......: Turkish
SUBTITLES.......: English (US) (Commentary by film critic Gary Giddins)
SUBTITLES.......: English (US) (Commentary by film critic Gary Giddins / SDH)
SUBTITLES.......: English (US) (Commentary by film critic Gary Giddins / SDH / PGS)
Chapters........: Named
Release Notes:
Source #1: Criterion USA UHD Blu-ray (2026): video, audio, commentary, subtitles, chapters
Source #2: Imprint AUS UHD Blu-ray (2026): commentary, subtitles
Source #3: Eureka Entertainment "e;Masters of Cinema"e; GBR UHD Blu-ray (2024): isolated score and effects track
Source #4: Eureka Entertainment "e;Masters of Cinema"e; GBR Blu-ray (2016): commentary
Source #5: Kino Lorber USA UHD Blu-ray (2022): commentary
Source #6: FilmConfect GER Blu-ray (2018): subtitles
Source #7, #8, #9: Amazon, Filmin, iTunes WEB-DL: subtitles
Demuxed with latest DGDemux with DV merge function.
REPACK: Superior video and audio from the Criterion UHD with additional commentary from the AUS blu-ray.
The Masters of Cinema, Criterion and Imprint UHDs were encoded by Fidelity in Motion making all 3 very close. The higher bitrate helped in deciding and some luck; however Criterion is the most consistent one of all 3. Imprint has some scenes with more splotchy grain while Masters of Cinema is quite close to Criterion but has some more blocking in dark scenes (e.g.: comp #27). With Criterion’s superior audio, it ensures complete consistency.
The Criterion UHD has the same lower generation mono from the magnetic track, however, it is unfiltered with has less noise reduction than the MoC UHD and previous Criterion blu-ray. It’s a decent track and with it there’s no need for the MGM NTSC DVD track as that’s from a higher generation source; even though it’s unfiltered, it has many distortions, hum and is overall much worse.
Commentary featuring critic Gary Giddins was taken from the Criterion UHD as it’s slightly better than the previous blu-ray’s track. Commentary from Adrian Martin is the same on Eureka! Masters of Cinema 2016 and 2024 discs, so 2016 is preferred for its lossless format. Commentaries were synced with the MGM intro’s where needed except the isolated score which shouldn’t have that.
Criterion’s subtitles were too bright so tonemapped it and all other PGS to 58%.
