One of the things I found infuriating about SD DVD was many films seemed to get multiple releases, each one "correcting" something from a previous version. Which means that someone may be purchasing the same thing 3 or 4 times.
Folks, the ONLY way this practice (which seems to now be part of BD releases) to end is if NOBODY buys it until it's "right." To those to HAVE to have it RIGHT NOW, consider that you will be thought of as a fool/tool for the studios! Trust me if in 4 months time they see only a few hundred in sales, you can take it to the bank they will FIX the issue.
Goodfellas was a flipper DVD for YEARS. I checked and checked the back of the box to see if they had fixed it for close to 5 years and they never did until 2 or 3 years back by which time I lost interest in even buying it. I think its perfectly acceptable to pass on a bad disc even if its a movie you really, really want. If studios can make the effort on utter crap, they surely must be able to manage it for their more valuable titles.
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riverside_guy @ Jul 8th 2008 9:44AM
One of the things I found infuriating about SD DVD was many films seemed to get multiple releases, each one "correcting" something from a previous version. Which means that someone may be purchasing the same thing 3 or 4 times.
Folks, the ONLY way this practice (which seems to now be part of BD releases) to end is if NOBODY buys it until it's "right." To those to HAVE to have it RIGHT NOW, consider that you will be thought of as a fool/tool for the studios! Trust me if in 4 months time they see only a few hundred in sales, you can take it to the bank they will FIX the issue.
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 9:54AM
Goodfellas was a flipper DVD for YEARS. I checked and checked the back of the box to see if they had fixed it for close to 5 years and they never did until 2 or 3 years back by which time I lost interest in even buying it. I think its perfectly acceptable to pass on a bad disc even if its a movie you really, really want. If studios can make the effort on utter crap, they surely must be able to manage it for their more valuable titles.
ceilingfanboy @ Jul 8th 2008 11:25AM
At least so far movies with really bad transfers have been remastered and then an exchange program was used.