That's more like it. You'll still need to use a PAL source if you're going to use them for re-editing. With all the times "Region 1" gets the best DVD release, it's good to have a clear winner by PAL. The same could be said about the Alien Quad, apparently the "Region 1" is better because you can listen to the audio commentary on both versions of each film, and you can view deleted scenes place markers while watching the films - it seems that the ability to listen to commentaries on both versions was something they did "because they could" - people claimed 30 minutes of commentary would be missing from the Alien 3 disc since on the PAL release you can only listen to it on the Theatrical Cut. Since then it's become apparent that no commentary is missing from the PAL discs, and to fill in the gaps in Alien 3 at least, they'd just repeat some of the commentary already used.

This is stupid, because it means the Region 1 owners have no idea which version they *should* watch with the commentary other than guesswork (they should watch the version that the PAL's were given for commentary since they're complete and with the version to which it refers).

Which means in the end the only thing of value Region 1 got was deleted scene place markers - which is not worth sacrificing 16% of the resolution for. Making, in my opinion, another clear winner for PAL (Regions 2&4).

Daniel