There was a framing problem on the widescreen version. Instead of going back to the original footage to make widescreen copies, they took the already cut down pan and scan and then added black bars to the top and bottom to make it appear widescreen. So a ton of the original viewing area was shot. I think it only affected one of the three movies and I want to say it was #2.

I thought that all the copies that were currently in distribution were the new version. BTTF came out in November/December 2002 on DVD and they decided to rectify the situation after Christmas had passed so as not to miss out on any holiday sales. So they should have taken care of getting new copies out in January/February 2003 with replacement discs sent out to owners of the bad set by the middle of 2003. I never knew that you could look for v2 on the barcode to tell the difference. Will have to check that out.