Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Region 1 version was released in June 2004. It has the same episodes as the Region 4 disc. The background colour is different (the R1 is predominantly green, the R4 predominantly yellow) but the character art is the same. The extras are the same (except for the trailers) — including the commentary.

    The R1 transfer is reported to be excellent, perhaps even slightly better than this R4 (it sounds as though it has even less aliasing). I'm still rating the two as pretty much equal. I like my R4 collection, especially in the box that I bought with the first volume. I won't be surprised to see this series re-released as a complete box set — if you missed out on buying the discs as they were released, I'm sure you'll get another chance.