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DVD profile -
Tartan (UK) Original Version
NTSC 5.1 Edition

Additional images: Back Disc
THE STATS

DVD TYPE:
DVD-5 (single layer) R0 (region-free) NTSC (US, Japan)

SUBS:
English (removable)

AUDIO:
Dolby Digital 5.1

DISTRIBUTOR:
Tartan Asia Extreme (UK)

CATALOG NUMBER:
TVD3385

RELEASE DATE:
May 27, 2002

EXTRAS:
Star-Director Filmographies; Trailer; Stills; Mark Wyatt Notes; Dolby Digital 5.1 sound

WHERE TO BUY:
amazon.co.uk

THE GOOD
  • Plays on any NTSC DVD player
  • Well-translated subtitles
  • Great transfer, comparable to Japanese DVD
  • 5.1 Audio
THE BAD
  • Virtually no extras
  • Out of print and hard to find
MIKE SAYS This is, arguably, the best edition of BR you can buy. Definitely the best for "converting" your friends to the movie, as the subtitles are perfect and you can plop it in your friend's DVD player knowing that it will play.

It's the original edition, so it's missing the tweaked effects and additional scenes found on the Special Version, but I've always felt I'd rather go without those extra scenes on the SV than lose the better pacing of the end of the Original Version.

Unfortunately, Tartan has stopped manufacturing this disc, so you'll have to track down the last remaining few on Amazon UK, or hope you'll run into a copy on eBay.
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