Title | Best |
Red Shoes, The (Blu-ray) | R1 |
The Red Shoes has been released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2009 and 2010 respectively. As mentioned previously, the Region B ITV United Kingdom release is identical to the Region B Beyond Home Entertainment Australian release, including the start-up promotion for other ITV releases prior to the main menu loading when you insert the Blu-ray disc into your Blu-ray player. The Region A Criterion Blu-ray includes the same restoration image and audio transfer, although the average bitrate for the video transfer is higher at 31.56 Mbps. The audio soundtrack on the Criterion release is an uncompressed Linear PCM 48kHz/24-bit 1.0 mono track encoded at 1152 kbps. The extras unique to this release include:
Although most of the extras on the Criterion release have been ported over from the 1998 DVD, the Region A Criterion version of The Red Shoes is the best available version of the film on Blu-ray at the time of writing this review. |