Region 4 Winners and Losers

    As far as content goes, the R1 version of this disc would appear to be identical barring the NTSC colour format used in the US. There are, however, a couple of minor differences. The R1 release is THX Certified. It also has a French 2.0 Dolby Surround audio track. However, it lacks the Spanish and Russian 5.1 Dolby Digital tracks and our slew of subtitle options. Given that there is no substantive differences, I would suggest working out your language requirements and the price difference and go with that. I would be curious to know if the R1 release has a better timed dual layer pause as that might still make it the winner. For the moment, I am going to mark these as the same.