Title | Best |
Avengers, The-1967 Collection | R4 |
This is interesting. The Region 1 release comes from A&E (a Canal Plus company). They were first released some time ago (the packaging is © 1998) — there have been other releases since, including one release of every disc of Emma Peel episodes (same discs, different packaging). I have the first release, which was offered as four sets, each of two discs, for a total of eight DVDs. Each disc holds three episodes, save the last, which holds four. This is in sharp contrast to the Region 4 collection, where we get four episodes per disc, except that the last disc has just one — twenty five episodes either way, though. The Region 1 photo galleries are a collection of individually viewable stills, rather than a montage — I like the montage. The Region 1 transfer is not as good as the Region 4. It has rather more film and film-to-video artefacts, including vertical scratches and frequent annoying background shimmer. And the R1 is noticeably lower resolution, by more than the PAL to NTSC ratio — the picture is frequently unacceptably soft. There's no question — the Region 4 version is definitely the superior choice. |