Back to the Future screw up

Word is out: The second and third movies in the long-awaited BTTF DVD are screwed up. The widescreen presentations are “badly misframed” and Universal will be pressing new discs as replacements. Word on this can be had at all the usual suspects.

Unbelievable. Merry Christmas, Universal.

Update: It just gets better. It seems this same transfer mistake was used in the R2 release which came out quite some time ago. People did complain about it then. Universal didn’t sort it out before the big R1 release. Whoopsie.


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4 Responses to “Back to the Future screw up”

  1. Franklin Harris
    19. December 2002 at 10:53

    At least Universal is fixing the mistake. Warner will never do that for the miscropped “Horror of Drcaula” and “Curse of Frankenstein” discs it released in Oct.

  2. Augie De Blieck Jr.
    19. December 2002 at 11:30

    But this one is a major release for the holiday season. Plenty of people will be receiving these things as gifts.

    And Universal can’t be bothered to get it right on the first go-around? Sheesh

    Maybe I’m just bitter because the set is near the top of my Christmas list. ;-)

    Ah, well, at least the new discs probably won’t require some weird proof of purchase and register receipt to prove it was legally purchased. It looks like they’ll just have you send in the discs for replacements.

    Still, this is stupid. And, as Digital Bits pointed out, if they had sent preview copies to the major DVD web sites, it’s a problem that might have been found and corrected ahead of time.

    -Augie

  3. Tracie Mauk
    19. December 2002 at 15:49

    But this is the thing I want most for Christmas! The very thing I’ve been bugging the parents to get me! Do I hold off now? Do I say “Oh, nevermind”? Or do I get to have it anyway and just send in my disks?

    [sobs] Why is this happening? Why, god? Why? To my beloved BTTF!!

  4. Augie De Blieck Jr.
    20. December 2002 at 09:07

    Tracie –>

    I’d take the boxed set for Christmas if I could get it and then just send the discs in, sit back, and wait. Sad, but that’s about all you can do.

    At least, that’s my plan. If I get the boxed set for Christmas, I’m only watching the first one for now.

    If you get the Pan and Scan set, though, you won’t have any problems, aside from the possibility of dizziness and nasuea from watching the camera moving far too much, and the bastardization of the director’s vision.

    -Augie