Asaki said:
Chewtobacca said:
DVD-BOY said:
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<li>Paramount / Universal did Gladiator for the appalling quality video.</li>
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They set up an exchange program, but did not concede that there was anything wrong with the first release, so it was not a product recall as such. I don't remember 20th Century Fox ever doing a product recall.
IIRC, they (Universal) did the same thing for the Back to the Future boxed set, regarding framing issues (just in Part II, if memory serves).
The Universal Back to the Future disc exchange worked like this. If you knew where to look you could get a number to call the costumer service people. They after taking your information of name and, address would send you a free prepaid envelope. You put Parts II & III in there and, they sent out the replacement discs to you in a brown cardboard box with packing material inside. The replacement discs came in unbranded clear CD cases.
The reason behind the Back to the Future framing issue was that they used ILM film masters for the original discs. I suspect that they used those masters due to possibly being a generation before the final matte of the effects shots. Alongside the framing issue all three discs suffered from certain player selective problems in regards to playing the fact tracks and, the conversation with Michael J. Fox special features. This occurred AFAIK due to using recently hired employees to do the DVD coding straight out of college. I could be wrong about that though. Anyway to fix the framing issue Zemeckis supervised the reframing of Parts II & III. They also fixed the fact tracks special feature problem on the discs. Since there was nothing wrong with the framing of Part I those discs were not part of the exchange program The Part I fact track and, conversation with Michael J. Fox errors remained.
Depending on what time you sent your discs in you would get a different replacement disc for part III. The early replacement discs contained the designation "V2" in the copyright info. For Part III another replacement version is out there with slightly different framing. It was sent out without the "V2" identifier or, any visual difference on the disc image. Nevertheless, it's often thought of as "V3" or, version 3. V3 was sent out to the later replacement disc crowd. I believe it's V3's framing on the Blu-rays.
AFAIK the re-release of BTTF disc set for a lower price contained the V2 and, V3 discs. Further the re-release with the ride footage each movie sold separately I think contained V2 and, V3 corrected framing.
Oh yeah... Star Wars... Um, ILM is company that is Star Wars related!!!!!
