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03-15-2008, 10:33 AM
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I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
Reviews across the internet are touting the video and audio of the recent I, ROBOT Blu-ray as among the finest releases on the market; and yet Fox is screwing the Blu-ray customer once again by making their packaging look like the BD contains all the features on the SD All-Access Collector's Edition when, in fact, many of them have been edited down from that earlier version (see details at the BD's review at highdefdigest.com). Hell, since they're all still SD extras anyway, Fox could have just added that 2nd disc from the earlier C.E. instead of truncating the extras and squeezing them on a single BD. This frankly scares the hell out me--how am I ever going to be able to trust Fox packaging now, if there's no indication that they're providing edited-down versions of previously available SD extras? I know this forum is chock-a-block with members who could give a rip about extras--just give 'em great picture and sound, and they're set--but for the rest of us, this sets an unethical and unacceptable precedent...
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03-15-2008, 10:42 AM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
As someone that generally doesn't really care about alot of extras, I have to agree with you. Fox and the rest of the studios needs to give us the advantages that the BR format offers us, especially, if they're going to charge us the amount of money they do on these releases. They have no excuses in this matter.
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03-15-2008, 11:23 AM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
Fox has often indeed dropped all the extras from that "Disc 2" from the SD DVD SE.. Not sure why. Then again e.g. "The Fly (1986)" included everything.. Go figure.
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03-15-2008, 11:39 AM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
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Fox has often indeed dropped all the extras from that "Disc 2" from the SD DVD SE.. Not sure why. Then again e.g. "The Fly (1986)" included everything.. Go figure.
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Right, which pisses me off to no end, but at least I'm aware of such before I choose to make a purchase or not. This case is far more insidious, IMO, because the packaging makes it look like all the extras have been carried over, but since many of them are truncated versions of what came before, they really haven't. There's no way (other than waiting past release day and hoping for someone to offer an intensively researched review) for the consumer to make an informed purchase decision with a marketing tactic like this.
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03-15-2008, 12:08 PM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
Not to mention FOX still has the highest MSRP of any of the studios. Course they always have, even back in the LD days.
I will buy this, but not for $27. When it comes from FOX, i wait for a sale. Even if it did have all the extras!
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03-15-2008, 12:11 PM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
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There's no way (other than waiting past release day and hoping for someone to offer an intensively researched review) for the consumer to make an informed purchase decision with a marketing tactic like this.
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This is yet one more reason why I don't buy Fox Blu-ray discs until after they've been out for a while.
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03-15-2008, 12:48 PM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
Is this movie on a BD-25 by chance and they didn't have enough space for all the extras, so they started trimming? Otherwise, it makes no sense why they would remove/trim things from a BD-50 when there's more than enough room for everything.
This doesn't even seem like the standard double-dip attempt.
Very strange.
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03-15-2008, 12:58 PM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
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Is this movie on a BD-25 by chance and they didn't have enough space for all the extras, so they started trimming? Otherwise, it makes no sense why they would remove/trim things from a BD-50 when there's more than enough room for everything.
This doesn't even seem like the standard double-dip attempt.
Very strange.
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Per the i, Robot link at High-Def Digest:
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Technical Specs
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03-15-2008, 01:02 PM
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Re: I, Robot: Fox Keeps Screwing Fans of Extras
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Steve Feldstein of Fox Home Entertainment has it half-right: Early adopters are willing to pay more. But the flip side to that coin is that we're savvy enough to know when we're being taken advantage of.
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BINGO. I'm hoping this sentiment gets shared (respectfully but firmly) by many members at the upcoming meet and greet with Fox.
Last edited by Nick Graham : 03-15-2008 at 01:06 PM.
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