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  1. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I'm sure Warner was just getting rid of their older stock of BS discs. I've got an anamorphic copy of YF but I went ahead and called Fox to ask about a replacement and the man said that they hadn't heard of any problems with the set. He tried to tell me my television "should have black bars"...
  2. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I have a hard time believing a major studio would try and "get" the buyer but they are certainly getting a little by asking those who already paid good money for the set to spend an extra $6-$10 (postage, insurance, tracking) just to fix the problem, which should be under Fox's control. If Fox...
  3. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I can say this now since it's after street date but my friend's bad copy came from the Best Buy in Lexington, KY. BB let me return the non-anamorphic set but they opened the news one but they didn't find any that were correct. I then went to the other BB and got lucky on my first try...
  4. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I just bought another set at the Best Buy on the other side of Louisville (by Jefferson Mall for those local) and it had the anamorphic YF. If Fox did this on purpose then there's no doubt they'd get away with it considering the majority of DVD buyers don't visit online sites and the...
  5. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I took back my copy today. After thirty minutes of trying to explain what the problem was they went to the shelf and got me a new copy. They opened it in the store to check and see if this one had the same problem. It did. They got another off the shelf and it too had the same problem. There...
  6. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    After reading George's post I actually checked my "yellow spine" copy of YF and it too is non-anamorphic. Since there are two spine colors out there it really seems like Fox put some of the old discs in the older cover and threw it into the set and then put some of the older discs in the set...
  7. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I bought a set today at Best Buy and the spine color is certainly the way to tell. They had around ten sets on the shelf and all but one had the yellow spined YF.
  8. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    The spine has white letters. I just double checked and everything on the back (the text, photos, years) is the same. I said earlier that I wasn't going to buy the set but that has changed. I flipped through a couple of the other titles and they all look like good discs. SILENT MOVIE looked...
  9. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    It does and it's the same as my (old) copy of YF. The only difference is that it's in the slimpack.
  10. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    My buddy's up watching the ballgames with us and he brought his copy of YF. It certainly is NOT anamorphic. It's the exact same disc as the older one right down to the UPC and everything else on the packages. I sampled SILENT MOVIE and it looks great though.
  11. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    Nope. He bought the set early at a major retailer (I don't think I can name the store since it broke street date?).
  12. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    It was I who said my friend had gotten the set early and said it was the old disc. He's got a 16x9 set so unless the disc changed his settings then he got the old one. I'm going to see him on Saturday so I'll have him bring it along so I can check it myself but I do trust he knows what he was...
  13. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    Looking at the two screenshots, they appear to be different transfers. I'm guessing some of the sets ended up with the older version? This happened at Anchor Bay once before so I guess it's possible.
  14. Michael Elliott

    A Few Words About A few words about... The Mel Brooks Collection

    I had "news" to come here and post but it seems the cat's already out of the bag. My friend got his hands on the set early and told me that his YF was the same as the old disc. He bought his copy in Lexington, KY. Hopefully some of the older discs just found their way into the set. Fox just...
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