Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The original rental-only release meant that the original decision was well and truly in favour of the Region 1 release. Well, this new sell-through release makes things a little tougher as just about everything on that Region 1 release has made the jump to Region 4. Indeed, all that the Region 4 seems to miss out on is:

• Advert for the soundtrack album
• 4 additional trailers

    It would seem that there is little to choose either way, although I suppose that Region 1 is still the narrowly preferred choice. It might be interesting to know that the sell-through release in Region 2 (at least in the United Kingdom and noted during my recent visit) appeared to be a single disc release that pretty well equates to the original Region 4 rental-only release. If that is the case, at the price point being offered, our Region 2 readers should be looking at getting this Region 4 release: the landed cost is going to be pretty much on a par with the HMV/Virgin price point.