Region 4 Winners and Losers

    Beauty Shop was released in Region 1 in August of 2005, and seems to be identical to our disc, except our disc replaces the French audio for Polish and Hungarian, and our disc also has more subtitle choices. The Region 1 is a dual layered disc and offers a full frame or pan/scan transfer on the second layer. Obviously, that is a waste of space which has the potential to comprise the compression of the widescreen transfer, although most reviews are happy with the image quality. None of these reviews mention the trailer, so it is possible it has been omitted. If you want the 4x3 transfer or the French audio, then go for the Region 1, otherwise you will be better served with the local disc. I'll call it even.