The Great Outdoors: R2UK vs. R1 Comedy Favourites Collection

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 26 Oct 2007, 00:20

The Great Outdoors

Top: R2 UK DVD (3.825GB)
Bottom: R1 John Candy Comedy Favourites Collection DVD (3.746GB)

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Subtitles:

As anyone who's seen this film knows, there are a few scenes that feature a bunch of raccoons scavenging through Candy's trash. In the UK DVD the raccoon talk is translated via removable player generated subtitles, which are not Widescreen TV friendly (so you have to zoom out, or switch to subtitle picture mode to view them properly). On the R1 Comedy Favourites DVD the subtitles are burnt into the print:

Comparison:

captainjoe · Post by **captainjoe** » 26 Oct 2007, 00:33

Better picture, colour, grain reproduction etc. on the R1

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 26 Oct 2007, 00:48

Yup, add the fact that there's generally more picture information on the new r1 and that it's the first Anamorphic release of the film on DVD (I think), and you have a clear winner.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Oct 2007, 00:55

The R1 SE looks better.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 26 Oct 2007, 01:17

The old UK VHS was censored by the BBFC... anyone know what those cuts were?

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classifie ... enDocument

The DVD is apparently uncut.