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Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Jurassic Park III (Rental)R1

    The Region 1 disc is a fully fledged collector's edition, chock-a-block with extras (the first disc I can remember with 3 pages of special features menu). The Region 4 is a rental disc with no extras. An uneven comparison... 

    The Region 4 disc is missing:

  • French soundtrack
  • subtitles in Spanish
  • layer change (the R1 layer change is nearly invisible, though)
  • featurette: Making Of (22:42)
  • commentary: special effects team
  • featurette: New Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III (7:52)
  • featurette: Tour of Stan Winston Studio (3:14)
  • featurette: A Visit to ILM (17:44)
  • dinosaur turntables (a look at each of the CGI models)
  • featurette: Behind the Scenes (3 scenes - 4:29)
  • storyboard to final comparison (3 scenes - 6:09)
  • photo and poster galleries
  • theatrical trailers (all three movies - 4:38)
  • featurette: Finding New Dinosaurs (4:22)
  • production notes (28 pages)
  • cast and crew (13 bios)
  • DVD-ROM features, including game demos
  • recommendations (6 other Universal titles)
  • special offers
  • ads for a DVD newsletter and the Jurassic Park Institute website
  • booklet showing comparative sizes of the dinosaurs

    The Region 1 disc is missing:

  • nothing

    The Region 4 disc has a very good transfer, if a little over-compressed. The Region 1 disc has a superb transfer.

    If you want to rent the movie, the R4 is OK. If you want to buy it, then the R1 is your only option today. If the sell-through version of the R4 comes out with all the features of the R1, and a less compressed transfer than the rental disc, then I'll be happy to recommend it.