Region 4 Winners and Losers

    Region 1 is about to get Season 2 of Buffy - it will be a while before they get to Season 4. Region 2 got this season three weeks before we did. I have checked their discs and they are the same masters as ours. Their labels use the same pictures as ours, but there are different details (classification markings, region sigil, and so forth), and for some reason the R2 labels are rather darker (I like ours better). Their packaging is compact, packing all six discs into one album that's less than 2cm thick - I like it, but some correspondents have pointed out that their packaging is cardboard, and therefore potentially less durable than the bunch of Amarays we get as packaging for the R4. Perhaps they could package the discs in double Amarays to halve the amount of space required? That would make it a bit complicated if they insist on selling it in two parts, but it's sold as a single set in R2.