Jarhead - Non-US version to have all the bonus materials?

[Farid]

Will be exciting to find out whether or not this will be the case!

[DigitalfreakNYC]

I mentioned that in another thread. It seems like every non-us version has all the bonus materials. I wonder if Universal changed something since their original announcement

[Grubert]

Spanish site zonadvd has released the specs for the European edition. Indeed, it will have all the bonus materials of the DVD and HD DVD, and even some in HD:

Audio: DTS MA English; DTS Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Italian
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean

Bonus materials:
Audio Commentary by director Sam Mendes
Audio Commentary by screenwriter William Broyles Jr. and author Anthony Swofford
Jarhead Diaries - With introduction by Sam Mendes
Background - With introduction by Sam Mendes
Semper Fi: Life After the Corps - With audio introduction by Anthony Swofford
News Interview in Full (in high-definition)
Swoff's Fantasies (in high-definition)
Deleted Scenes (in high-definition)

[DigitalfreakNYC]

I will definitely be picking up the european edition.

[DigitalfreakNYC]

Confirmed

[Kory]

Hey guys, sorry to bump this old thread, but I'm looking for some help. I want to purchase the UK Blu-ray of "Jarhead," because I hear it has all of the bonus features that were left off the U.S. release.

I'm curious though, is this release region-free? This is very important to me, as I don't have a region-free player and don't want to have to buy one.

Also I'm curious if the menus of the UK Blu-ray are the same as the Universal releases in the U.S.. I really like the uniform design of the U.S. Universal menus and I'm hoping this release has them designed the same way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: Also, I'm curious if there are any other non-U.S. releases of this that are also region-free, contain all of the extras, have English writing on the packaging, and maybe don't have ugly European/Asian ratings logos on the front.

Thanks!

[josuv22]

Originally Posted by Kory

Hey guys, sorry to bump this old thread, but I'm looking for some help. I want to purchase the UK Blu-ray of "Jarhead," because I hear it has all of the bonus features that were left off the U.S. release.

I'm curious though, is this release region-free? This is very important to me, as I don't have a region-free player and don't want to have to buy one.

Also I'm curious if the menus of the UK Blu-ray are the same as the Universal releases in the U.S.. I really like the uniform design of the U.S. Universal menus and I'm hoping this release has them designed the same way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: Also, I'm curious if there are any other non-U.S. releases of this that are also region-free, contain all of the extras, have English writing on the packaging, and maybe don't have ugly European/Asian ratings logos on the front.

Thanks!

should be region free don't know of a any Universal blus which have been locked.

not sure about the xtras but a user image on amazon you can make out
it says HD extras list few which I cant read and then additional extras.

[FrankV]

Originally Posted by Kory

Also I'm curious if the menus of the UK Blu-ray are the same as the Universal releases in the U.S.. I really like the uniform design of the U.S. Universal menus and I'm hoping this release has them designed the same way.

The menu design on the international releases are the same as the US releases.

Originally Posted by Kory

Edit: Also, I'm curious if there are any other non-U.S. releases of this that are also region-free, contain all of the extras, have English writing on the packaging, and maybe don't have ugly European/Asian ratings logos on the front.

John Carpenter's The Thing includes all the extras.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by FrankV

John Carpenter's The Thing includes all the extras.

Those extras are in PAL format, though, so U.S. PS3's can't play them. He may need to know that...

[AnimeOnBlu]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Those extras are in PAL format, though, so U.S. PS3's can't play them. He may need to know that...

AFAIK, the extras on those Uni titles (Jarhead, The Thing) are NTSC.

[FrankV]

Correct, the extras are in NTSC (not PAL).

[Kory]

Thanks for the responses, guys! They definitely helped. I already own the U.S. "Jarhead" and "The Thing" releases, and I've heard that through U-Control, "The Thing" has most if not all of the special features, but "Jarhead" is nearly barebones, and I only paid $7 for it, so I think I'll order that from Amazon UK.

[Kory]

Hey all, bumping this one more time.

I've got the UK "Jarhead" and "The Boat That Rocked" (as opposed to the U.S. "Pirate Radio") on the well and will probably be trading something for the UK "The Thing" soon.

I was curious if anyone knows of any other Universal titles that were treated better in other regions than the U.S. releases were. By treated better, I mean more special features, better video/audio quality, etc. Any help would be sincerely appreciated.