Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Region 4 disc misses out on:

• French and Spanish subtitles
• English dub
• the ability to turn the subtitles off!
• original artwork (a single still photo)

    The Region 1 disc misses out on:

• animated menus with music
• the Australian Censorship Controversy

    I have compared these two directly, and it is quite annoying. I want to choose the R1, because it has the ability to switch off the subtitles. But the R1 video transfer is  harsher than ours - it has far too much contrast in the night scenes, and quite poor shadow detail. I must, reluctantly, recommend the R4 disc - it is an excellent transfer, spoiled by the subtitles being burned in.

    The English dub on the R1 disc is dreadful - spaghetti-Western quality - it is no loss, except to the illiterate.