Lady Vengeance R1 vs R2 I've been meaning to get the full color version of Lady Vengeance to complemet the fade to b/w version found on the Vengeance Trilogy boxset, and can't seem to make up my mind. I have a couple of questions for those who have seen both editions:

1. Do both the R1 and R2 editions preserve the theatrical color palette?
2. Is the NTSC to PAL conversion in the R2 edition noticeable? Any ghosting?
3. Any subtitle problems on either of them?

Which version would you recommend?

Thanks!

Look at the big brain on Chris.

None of the interlaced transfers are great, but they're the only way to view the theatrical palette. I guess the quality of the image will depend on your DVD player's de-interlacing capabilities. Watching through PowerDVD on a progressive TFT the artefacts are more noticeable than watching on a progressive CRT with a prog scan DVD player. Over time I've also come to appreciate the palette of the theatrical version over the fading version, but the best transfers are definitely of the latter. Trouble is, rather than start out full colour and slowly fade, they start very muted and just get darker.

Yes, I was talking about the Panorama release when I said R3. I was disappointed with that transfer when I saw it, but the other theatrical versions look pretty much the same. Personally I'd go for the R1 because of the extras, but that's just me. I really thought the R1 would be progressive and therefore the best (Mr. V and Oldboy were), but I was wrong.

There is quite a difference between the two, more so than the caps suggest. Isn't the Korean SE OOP now? I had a hell of a time tracking down the original Starmax SE of Oldboy, but I ended up with two copies in the end...