Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Australian Region B Blu-ray edition of Rocky Balboa features an identical set of extras to the DVD release.

    There are a few differences to the US Region A release however. Most notably, the Region B misses out on an uncompressed English PCM 5.1 Surround (48kHz/16-Bit/4.6mbps) soundtrack and French Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. The Region A edition misses out on the Italian and Spanish DTS soundtracks, English Descriptive Audio track and Rocky Balboa: Going the Distance featurette. Though weighing the loss of a featurette against the loss of a soundtrack is a bit like comparing apples to oranges, I believe most early adopters of HD technology would prefer the uncompressed soundtrack to the additional featurette. That said, both the US and Australian discs enforce region encoding, so importing the Region A version is only an option if you have a player from each region as multi-region players do not exist yet.