2023 Damn Fool Awards: The worst physical media disc releases of 2023

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These are my awards for the worst in physical media and catalog title masters for the calendar year of 2023. There were unfortunately many compromised releases and masters but two so outshone the others that they dominate these awards: the desecration of American Graffiti and the Warner studio release of the Fleischer Superman cartoons.
And the specter of James Cameron looms large…

00:00 Intro goof
00:00:32 Introduction
02:24 WTF disc of the year:
04:03 Worst artwork:
05:05 Most disappointing audio:
05:48 Worst audio:
05:56 Worst over processing of preexisting audio source:
06:33 Worst audio desecration:
07:51 Disc most ruined by no original audio:
08:21 Cheapest feeling and least effort boxset:
09:38 Worst 4K UHD picture quality:
12:04 Worst Blu-ray Picture Quality:
13:21 Worst encoding, UHD:
14:21 Worst Encoding BD:
15:12 Dumbest Encoding UHD:
15:43 Dumbest Encoding BD:
16:04 Worst HDR:
16:47 Worst Supplemental Feature:
21:54 Most problematic and error ridden disc:
23:03 Most problematic boxset:
25:00 Cheapest reissue practices:
26:17 Most annoying reissue practice:
28:36 New Low for Film Preservation: James Cameron 4K remasters
29:53 Lifetime Achievement Award for continued Video Idiocy: James Cameron
30:09 Worst UHD of the Year:
32:25 Worst Blu-ray of the Year:
33:23 Special Award for Video Incompetence-
34:38 Worst disc of the year:

36:57 Top 10 worst
37:18 #10
37:34 #9
37:55 #8
38:24 #7
39:03 #6
40:02 #5
40:48 #4
41:03 #3
42:04 #2
42:36 #1

42:58 Final Summary
45:47 Outro Goof