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Region 4 Winners and Losers

Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Heartbreak RidgeR4

    The Region 1 and Region 4 discs are almost identical — even the disc labels are close to identical. They have the same number of chapter stops (38). Even the layer change is in almost exactly the same place (same scene, that is — it is at 79:40, and much less noticeable).

    The Region 1 disc is missing:

  • a decent Amaray case (it is in a snapper case)
  • Italian soundtrack
  • subtitles for the hearing impaired, and five more languages

    The Region 4 disc is missing:

  • cast and crew filmographies — 5 pages for Clint Eastwood, 1 page each for Marsha Mason and writer James Carabatsos
  • scene selection menu entries for the even-numbered chapter stops

    The English 5.1 soundtrack is coded at 448 kbps on the R1 disc, but only 384 kbps on the R4. However, they sound equally good.

    The filmographies are fairly negligible, and apart from that (and a better layer change), the advantages lie with the Region 4 disc.