Cats & Dogs...All I saw was FULL SCREEN!.... (1 Viewer)

[todd s]

Michael, I understand Robert George's explaination and I don't think it is some sort of conspiracy. All I am saying is that I hope Warner takes into account that the widescreen was not available in the intial rush to pick up the disc. And that most people at the various retail outlets had no idea of any other release.

 

[Jeremy Anderson]

I called every store in town, and all fullscreen. No big deal though... I'll wait for OAR.
The girl at my local Suncoast is warning everyone who pre-ordered C&D that there will be a widescreen version within two weeks... God bless her!

 

[PatrickM]

I wonder if distribution of this title is different in Canada because I just came back from Futureshop and they had lots of both the widescreen and full screen versions of Cats & Dogs. Now if Futureshop can get it right then I can't see why the big B&M's down in the lower 48 can't.
P.S., I did not buy either. Just picked up my Star Wars and Fawlty Towers.
Patrick
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[Mark McLeod]

Patrick,
I was just at Futureshop on West Broadway and all I saw was the Full Frame ones. I wasn't going to pick it up but I was interested in if they had it.
Which FS did you go to?
M.

 

[Roger Bijou]

todd s,
"....I hope Warner takes into account that the widescreen was not available in the initial rush to pick up the disc. And that most people at the various retail outlets had no idea of any other release."
Oh, they will take it into account. Their BANK account. As with Willy Wonka they hope people will buy the immediately available P&S version and are counting on some of them to buy the OAR version as well.
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[PatrickM]

I was at the Coquitlam one on Pinetree. I saw this post earlier in the day and checked even though I didn't want this title. They were placed on shelves one above the other with the widescreen on the upper shelf. Lots of them there but no Criterion Notorious (piss me off).
Patrick
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[Donnie Eldridge]

Just came from CC and BB here in Tucson. Both stores only received Full Screen versions.
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[Andrea W]

My local Best Buy only had the full screen version, as well. One of the guys looked in the computer and found only 1 Cats & Dogs. He said that meant there was no widescreen on order.

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[Jim Benard]

Same here, only PAN & SCAM at Best Buy and Costco. The good news (i hope) is that Costco beat Best Buy's 'sale' price of 17.99. If there is a big delay, the Best Buy sale will be over but you can still get it next week at Costco for 17.49!
A good question for tonight is to bring up the fact that most people aren't 'widescreen' aware so the sales figures for the P&S will be skewed when the widescreen comes out. Warner probably already knows this but will they really care?
[Edited last by Jim Benard on October 16, 2001 at 02:51 PM]

 

[Carl Walker]

I visited the following stores this morning:
2 Best Buy
2 Toys R Us
Circuit City
Sam's Club
Target
Wal*Mart
Costco
Suncoast
None of them had widescreen Cats & Dogs. None of them had Thumb Wars. None of them had Star Woids...
All I ended up with was a free Star Wars CD-ROM from Best Buy and a Star Wars Epidode I DVD button from Suncoast.

 

[David Chisholm]

I popped into Future Shop during my lunch hour to buy the
Phantom Menace. After grabbing my copy I checked around for
Cats & Dogs and same thing could only find 30 or 40 full
frame copies.
Dave

 

[Brian Kidd]

Blockbuster strikes again. A gazillion copies, all full frame. Sigh. The end is near, my OAR-loving friends. I have a feeling that WB is gonna get an earful tonight. Wish I could be there.

 

[Mark McLeod]

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[PatrickM]

Mark,
I find that if you don't see it at FS you should ask someone in the department because I've found that some of them just aren't in the right place. For instance, when 61* first came out it wasn't on the new release area and I couldn't find it anywhere else. I went back a couple of days later and the same thing then I asked and they had it but not where I would find it.
Patrick
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[Christopher Carr]

Yeah, so I went to my Circuit City...only FULL FRAME...
I went to FYI...again only FULL FRAME...
difference between the stores? For a place that focuses more on movies than CC does, I gave out a big "UGH!" in FYI and everyone looked at me hehe.
I told one of my friends who works @ CC to complain about the non-widescreen issue.
WB: You screwed up once again (if the reason was anything BUT not having enough made)
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[CraigR]

I noticed in buying my copy of TPM that all the Cats & Dogs disks were full frame. Asked one of the blue shirts if they had any widescreen editions and he immediately said "No, we didn't get any and I don't know when we will get some." I did not buy the full frame version. Obi is probably right that we won't see this for a week or two down the road.

 

[John Berggren]

Both Best Buy and Walmart (I was desperate) told me "There is no widescreen version" - and indeed - there isn't one in their computers. They also told me that Toys is not out on DVD. I'm VERY irritated. Chalk up another win for the pan and scan crowd. I'm about to go back to click & ship.
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[Michael Banks]

Hey guys. Just to let you know I recieved my widescreen version of Cats & Dogs over the weekend from Laser's Edge. http://www.Lasersedge.com
Give them a call they should have some in stock.
BTW, I thought the transfer was great, a very good looking disc.
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[David Lambert]

I might be doing Laser's Edge.
I called Wal-Mart for the price of TPM ($22.99, btw), and asked about C&D. FF only.
I went to Best Buy to pick up TPM at lunch ($17.99, got the free demo PC games disc), and saw only FF C&D. Asked for WS and was told by an employee who had knowledge of it that they only got FF. He said, "Don't worry, we'll get it soon". Paid for TPM, asked the yellow-shirt at the door could I get a raincheck for WS C&D at the sale price. He buzzed the 1st dude to write it up and bring it to me at the door. Waited 5 minutes, then dude buzzed back and said he could not, because it wasn't in the computer system.
Target: FF only.
FYE: FF only.
Suncoast: Assured me that no WS version was forthcoming. Assured him he was wrong, pointed him to websites that showed the box, and explained to him I was with HTF and the Wonka petition thing, and he and the female teeny-bopper coworker had heard about that. He congratulated us. I said yeah, but C&D was gonna be WS, too, and on the same street date as the FF. His reply? "Looks like they took you, man".
Yeah.
Chat...soon.
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[LarryH]

DVDEmpire e-mailed me that they shipped my WS version of C&D today (10/16).