The transfer of this visually arresting film is marred only by low bitrate, a fact easily noticeable in scenes with lots of movement (see the frame below, blown-up to 200 %) as well as the more static setups (see e.g. frame 62033 in the gallery).

The most interesting "feature" of Slovak Film Institute's DVD of "Sitting Pretty on a Tree" / "Sitting on a Branch I Am Fine" is the extra 12:59.22 of footage not found on the older Czech release. I'm not sure what the deal here is, but this is what I think - the 121-minute cut of the film is the "original" (signed off in 1989); Jakubisko later created the shorter version, quite possibly at the time when his production company Jakubisko Film started releasing his films on DVD in the Czech Republic (SFI put a stop to that after only a few titles had been out on account of them owning the rights to the films in question - Jakubisko then unsuccessfully contested the fact in courts for years). The Czech DVD, on top of being "cut" (157 scenes are missing / shorter - yes, I loaded both versions into a video editor and found all the differences :-P), sports at times a radically different (example below), at others just a darker / more contrasty colour palette; the 3rd entry in this comparison - ČT1's broadcast of the longer version - is not really helpful in this matter, oscillating between the two DVDs, but mostly pushed toward the blues.

However, assuming that the shorter version was indeed created by Jakubisko himself at a later time, it might in fact be considered his preferred version (or "director's cut"), so even though the Czech DVD is not a patch on SFI's PQ-wise, if you've already got it I suggest you hold on to it (especially since it's been OOP for ages + there's also the short film "The Drummer for the Red Cross"), but get the SFI too for the better PQ.

BTW, the Jakubisko set comes in a flimsy envelope-like (very thin) "digipak" with the discs simply inserted in slits in the digipak's sides - a most unfortunate solution; all three discs in my set were stuck to the glue that holds the digipak together. ;-(