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Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Chicken RunR2UK
    The Region 4 version of this disc misses out on;
  • DTS ES 6.1 soundtrack
  • Dolby Digital 2.0  soundtrack
  • DVD-ROM content
  • Animated menus and scene selections
  • Easter eggs
  • Shrek preview
    The Region 1 version of this disc misses out on;
  • Pan and Scan version
    The UK Region 2 version of this disc misses out on;
  • Pan and Scan version
    The missing DVD-ROM content from the R1 version includes two small games, a themed calculator, onscreen character, desktop icons, screensaver, colouring book pictures and a number of theatrical posters. Each of the applications is quite small and has been developed in Flash. The main material of interest was the 10 theatrical posters and the 9 colouring book images. A dozen hidden Easter eggs in the menus of the R1 version provide interesting trivia relating to the film.

   The UK R2 version of Chicken Run has slightly different extras when compared with the R1 version. The differences relate to the making-of documentaries, apparently due to distribution rights. Instead of receiving the NBC and HBO featurettes you receive 'Fowl Play' The Making of Chicken Run, a 20 Minute Interview With Peter Lord And Nick Park, and Aardman Archive Clips. While these featurettes sound very interesting I have not seen them so I am unable to compare their content to what is presented on the R1 and R4 versions. Looking at UK reviews, they appear to rate the extras to be about equal between R1 and R2.

   The exclusion of the DTS ES track is a disappointment, as this track, present on both the R2 UK and R1 versions, provides a more enveloping and dynamic soundfield than the Dolby Digital track. Luckily, this is primarily a dialogue-driven film and the differences between the DTS and Dolby Digital tracks are not enormous. Unfortunately, with the R4 exclusion of the DTS track and the DVD-ROM content, I would have to rate the R2 UK version with PAL formatting as superior but if these features do not matter to you I am sure you would be extremely happy with any version.