directed by Ridley Scott
USA 1979

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Theatrical Release: 25 May, 1979 USA

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DVD Comparison:

20th Fox (UK) (Old) - Region 2,4 - PAL vs. 20th Fox (Old) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. 20th Fox (CE) - Region 1 - NTSC

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(20th Fox (UK) (Old) - Region 2,4 - PAL - LEFT vs. 20th Fox (Old) - Region 1 - NTSC - MIDDLE vs. 20th Fox (CE) - Region 1 - NTSC - RIGHT)

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Distribution

20th Fox (UK)

Region 2,4 - PAL

 20th Fox
Region 1 - NTSC		 20th Fox
Region 1 - NTSC
Runtime 1:51:52 (4% PAL speedup) 1:56:32 1:56:28
Video

2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 6.79 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 7.25 mb/s
NTSC 704x480 29.97 f/s

2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 8.52 mb/s
NTSC 704x480 29.97 f/s
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20th Fox (UK) (Old)

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

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20th Fox (Old)

 

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Audio English (Dolby Digital 5.1)

English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround); DUB: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)

English (Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1), DUB: Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles English for the hearing impaired, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Czech, Danish and none. English, Spanish, None English, Spanish, None
Features Release Information:
Studio: 20th Fox (UK)

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1

Edition Details:
• Commentary by director Ridley Scott
•  Isolated musical score
• Theatrical trailers
• Alternate music and production sound track (DD2.0)
• Deleted scenes
• Artwork and photo galleries
• Outtakes

DVD Release Date: May 15, 2000
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Chapters 20
 

 Release Information:
Studio: 20th Fox

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1

Edition Details:
• Commentary by director Ridley Scott
•  Isolated musical score on a separate audio channel
• Theatrical trailers
• Alternate music and production sound track
• Deleted scenes
• Artwork and photo galleries
• Outtakes
• Web links
• Booklet with production notes
 

DVD Release Date: June 1, 1999
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Release Information:
Studio: 20th Fox

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1

Edition Details:
• Commentary by Ridley Scott and technical crew (DIFFERENT COMMENTARY THAN THE OTHER TWO)
• Theatrical version (117 min.)
• Extended cut (seamlessly branched) (137 min.)
• Preproduction: Star Beast (developing the story), First Draft of Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon
• The Visualists (direction and design), Ridleygrams (original thumbnails & notes), storyboard archive
• Production: Fear of the Unknown (Shepperton Studios, 1978), production gallery
• The Darkest Reaches (Nostromo and alien planet), The Sets of Alien
• The Eighth Passenger (creature design), The Chestburster (creature design)
• Post-Production: Future Tense (music and editing), 8 deleted scenes
• Visual effects gallery (photo archive), A Nightmare Fulfilled (reaction to the film)
• Poster explorations, special shoot, premiere
• Number of discs: 2
 

DVD Release Date: Dec. 2, 2003
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Chapters 32

 

 

Comments
Gregory used Theatrical Cut on the Quadrilogy Boxset for Fox (CE) captures and there is quite a striking differences as you can plainly judge. The old issues look quite faded in comparison. The new DVD looks brighter with more defined colors and sharper. Although all three have the Ridley commentary, the CE release has a host of other interesting Extra Features including a seamlessly branched extended cut. The CE version also offers DTS which the other DVDs did not ( although all three have 5.1 sound ). None of the editions seem to have any cropping. So it looks like the new CE Region 1 version wins hands down.        - Gary W. Tooze

 




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