Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Fan was released in Region 1 on December 10, 1997, but unfortunately I could find no reviews of this disc. According to Amazon, it is a two sided disc (I think), with a 4x3 transfer on one side and a 16x9 enhanced transfer in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It has four audio tracks: an English Dolby Digital 5.1, plus English, French, and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 surround encoded tracks. No information is available about the bit rate for those tracks. It also comes with English and Spanish subtitles. It does not seem likely that the Region 1 would have a better transfer, so unless you want the foreign audio tracks or the 4x3 video you might as well stick with the local disc. I'm calling it even.