Region 4 Winners and Losers

    Despite early rumours to the contrary, once again we've had to wait in Region 4 for this set, while Region 2 has had it available for a number of months already. The discs are absolutely identical, and their dual region coding suggests that they're taken from exactly the same masters. The Region 1 sets are not available yet, but past experience has shown them to be almost identical to our versions. I'd just let price dictate your region of choice.

    The only other consideration (assuming we don't have a repeat of Season 3's mastering problem) is packaging, since the Region 2 set has a spiffy partially transparent plastic slipcase that goes over the box.