Region 4 Winners and Losers

    This is going to be a very difficult comparison. Region 1 has seen Season 1 released on a series of discs with two episodes on each. The complete set of these discs seems to equate to our box set except for the inclusion of audio commentaries for some episodes. The other material, such as the character profiles, appears to be present on the Region 1 release but spread over a number of discs.

    Region 2 seems to have had the season broken up into mini boxed sets with 4 or 5 episodes on two discs. There is mention of a trailer and of an extra character profile on Rygel that we have not received, but otherwise the content appears again similar.

    Region 4 is out of the running completely due to transfer problems. This leaves a PAL transfer in R2 that is missing the commentaries and an NTSC transfer with the commentaries. The commentaries are described by one R1 reviewer as hilarious so they seem to be a sad exclusion from the other regions. If you insist on PAL R2 is the go. If you don't mind NTSC and want the commentaries then R1 is the winner.