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Region 4 Winners and Losers

Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles: Special EditionR1

     Region 1 and Region 4 now have had both bare bones and Special Editions released. The original discs featured the film single layered and as such, more compression artefacts were visible. The transfers were good, but the release of the Special Editions offer a far better transfer with the extra room for information that RSDL formatting allows.

     The Region 4 disc misses out on:

  • Full bitrate dts 5.1 soundtrack
  • Production Notes
  • French Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
  • French and Spanish subtitles
    The Region 1 disc misses out on:
  • German Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
  • Various additional subtitles

     Your call, folks. While I've never been under the impression that dts is the be-all and end-all in terms of film audio, in the end it is up to the individual viewer (erm, listener) as to which they would prefer. This dual layered disc is more than capable of handling this extra audio track. Warner even managed to fit 2 Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks along with the dts track on the Region 1 disc, so one would have thought that space wasn't the problem. So, what is the problem? The fact that the dts track is missing is the problem! Don't get me wrong. The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix on offer here does a fine job of conveying the happenings on-screen and I have no real complaints, but dts on this film could have added an extra dimension to the audio of this film. Looks like Region 4 won't get to find out. God knows why because I don't. Warner?