Columbia Tri-star 'His Girl Friday' DVD Comparison R1 vs R2/4/5

directed by Howard Hawks
U.S. 1940

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DVD Comparison:

Columbia Tri-Star - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Columbia Tri-Star (UK) - Region 2/4/5 - PAL

Big thanks to Ole of DVDBasen for the R2 - PAL Screen Caps!

(Columbia R1 - NTSC Left vs. Columbia R2/4/5 - PAL -Right)

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Distribution	Columbia Tri-Star Region 1 - NTSC	Columbia Tri-Star Region 2/4/5 - PAL
Runtime	1:31:51	1:28:09 (4% PAL speedup)
Video	1.37:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 4.72 mb/s NTSC 704x480 29.97 f/s	1.37:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.17 PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes
Bitrate: Columbia R1 .
Bitrate: Columbia R2/4/5
Audio	English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0 ) DUB	English, German, Italian and Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono)
Subtitles	English Captions and French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese and Thai Subtitles as well as None	English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and none
Features	Release Information: Studio: Columbia Tri-Star Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 1940 Production Company: D3K Films Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1.00 ( Academy ratio ) Full Screen (Standard) - 1.37:1 Discographic Information: DVD Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada) Edition Details: • Commentary by Film Critic and Author Todd McCarthy • Four Featurettes: "Cary Grant: Making Headlines,"(4:57) "The Inside Scoop: Rosalind Russell," (3:15)"Reporter's Notebook: Howard Hawks" (3:24) and "The Funny Pages" (3:29) • Vintage Advertising (Posters / lobbycards). • Talent Files (Howard Hawks, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy) • Trailers (His Girl Friday, It Happened One Night Born Yesterday and Pal Joey). DVD Release Date: November 21, 2000 Keep Case Chapters 28	Release Information: Studio: Columbia Tri-Star (UK) Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 1940 Aspect Ratio(s): Full Screen (Standard) - 1.37:1 Discographic Information: • Region 2/4/5 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan etc.) Edition Details: Commentary with Todd McCarthy. featurettes: Cary Grant: Making Headlines (4:57), Rosalind Russell: The Inside Scoop (3:15), Howard Hawks: Reporter's Notebook (3:24), The Funny Pages (3:29). Filmographies of Howard Hawks, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy. Vintage advertising (Posters / lobbycards). Trailers (His Girl Friday, It Happened One Night and Mr. Smith Goes To Washington). DVD Release Date: December 2002 Keep Case Chapters 28
Comments:	The Columbia R1 disc is better. Better and deeper blacks, slightly clearer. Other than the discs are pretty much the same except for some minor details ( see Trailers listed above). I was surprised and thought the PAL would come out on top. Just goes to show you. Both are super quality and much better than all of the others out there. A Classic film and a worthy DVD production. Stick with the R1 but if you don't own it yet, you know what to do. I think most individuals would be happy with the slightly lesser R2/4/5... especially if you require the extra subs. Great job Columbia! (Note: His Girl Friday has recently entered into the public domain, and there have been multiple BAD versions released on DVD by other distributors.) *- Gary W. Tooze*