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Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Breaker MorantR1

    The Region 1 is a Fox Lorber release. I have a few of their discs, and they are not always top quality - they seem to specialise in films that are less than blockbusters, often from outside the US. This seems to be a typical Fox Lorber release - it is widescreen, but not 16x9 enhanced. It has only 9 chapter stops (the R4 disc has 20)

    The Region 4 disc is missing:

  • widescreen transfer in correct aspect ratio
  • production credits (2 pages)
  • filmographies (4)
  • Breaker Morant trailer

    The Region 1 disc is missing:

  • lots of film artefacts
  • irrelevant Playing Beatie Bow trailer
  • time coding

    There's no question - the Region 1 disc is vastly superior, and this from a distributor not renowned for fabulous discs. How embarrassing! Even without 16x9 enhancement it comes out far better - I blew up the picture to fill the screen, and the quality is still superior. It is far sharper and much cleaner - there are still some artefacts, but far fewer. The sound is still Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, but recorded at 448kbps.

    I can only recommend buying the Region 1 disc.