Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The R1 version of this disc is one of Columbia TriStar’s Superbit Collection releases. It has a DTS track and a high-bitrate video transfer for superior sound and visual quality. Although I cannot confirm it, I would suggest that the R4 disc probably has comparable video, and the 5.1 Dolby Digital EX is also likely almost on par with the R1 DTS track. Consequently, the difference would probably be very minimal, and accounting for the PAL versus NTSC trade-off in picture quality, the R4 might still come out ahead. The extras would appear to be identical. On balance then, I would actually call this a draw as there is nothing to really distinguish the two in any major way.