Joseph DeMartino
Senior HTF Member
TAU is Total Action Universe, a Canadian retailer which, thanks to the exchange rate and their own pre-order discounts, often offers the lowest prices on expensive boxed sets. (The B5 set was around $53 USD in August.) I've been buying my X-Files sets from them for two years, along with a few other items, and have never had a problem.
The current delays (which also affect DVDSoon and other retailers) seem to have two sources: 1) Warner Bros. officially pushed back the release date in Canada by a week - although many retailers ignored this change. 2) It seems likely that WHV changed the Canadian date to buy time to replace all those misprinted Disc 2s that really had the contents of Disc 4, and/or to do something about the case problem and the damaged discs. Since the official U.S. release came first, and since these problems seem to be so widespread, it seems likely that WHV is having trouble physically getting the discs out, and that it is dealing with returns from U.S retailers first, because they had permission to sell the set a week earlier. This has necessarily pushed shipments to Canada back, obviously more than the one week everybody expected. I seriously doubt that TAU is hording discs and refusing to ship them. I'm sure the problem is that they don't have any discs to ship (or at least not any sets they can be confident are good and won't be returned) and that they're waiting on Warner Bros.
Regards,
Joe
The current delays (which also affect DVDSoon and other retailers) seem to have two sources: 1) Warner Bros. officially pushed back the release date in Canada by a week - although many retailers ignored this change. 2) It seems likely that WHV changed the Canadian date to buy time to replace all those misprinted Disc 2s that really had the contents of Disc 4, and/or to do something about the case problem and the damaged discs. Since the official U.S. release came first, and since these problems seem to be so widespread, it seems likely that WHV is having trouble physically getting the discs out, and that it is dealing with returns from U.S retailers first, because they had permission to sell the set a week earlier. This has necessarily pushed shipments to Canada back, obviously more than the one week everybody expected. I seriously doubt that TAU is hording discs and refusing to ship them. I'm sure the problem is that they don't have any discs to ship (or at least not any sets they can be confident are good and won't be returned) and that they're waiting on Warner Bros.
Regards,
Joe