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Judging by the few responses I got here to my dilemma, I’m assuming it was not of great interest so I will briefly update the situation and then bow out of this thread. I got bounced around from one SONY corporate entity to another in trying to get some answers regarding the defective SONY MOD...

These certainly appear to be originals, though I know the packaging of bootlegs from China can look nearly identical to originals, so that may not be any indication. However, I'm skeptical that anyone could profit from boots of these particular movies. Boots could definitely explain why they...

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Sorry, I'm a little confused by your questions. Did you miss my original post from earlier today? I am referring to commercially released MOD DVD-Rs from SONY, not retail blank discs. I do not know when these were manufactured nor what brand SONY uses for their commercial releases. As for when I...

Ok, my brother ran the VSO on his computer for the five affected discs and three of them shared the same Media #. The other two also had the same Media #, but a different one from the first three. By contrast, he ran six other SONY CHOICE COLLECTION DVD-Rs that I own and have had for awhile and...

Thanks to you and Randy for the helpful info. It is indeed a very perplexing situation as I haven't had too many MODs from any major studio give me trouble. There were a few, but to have five like this all in a row is really a mystery. I should have specified that none of the discs I purchased...

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Sorry to bump this old thread, but I wasn't sure where else to post this: i recently bought five different SONY MOD DVD-R titles and none of them will play in any of my six Blu/DVD players. I was wondering if anyone knew of a contact email address or phone number for SONY where I can report...

Martin, you're right. Had it not been a Christmas themed episode or at least had I not watched it during the Christmas season, I might have appreciated it more. THE UNTOUCHABLES is by and large a solid series, but I do think they could be gratuitous on occasion and the more notoriety they got...

Josh, this is really a nice collection of Christmas episodes from the eras you are interested in. Vintage sitcoms and 30 minute dramas with a great variety of holiday themed stories. Being a Mill Creek set of public domain material, the technical quality is not always so great, but I found most...

I'm definitely with you on both scores, Jack. I can still handle Cosby on I SPY because according to allegations it was still before any of his monstrous behavior started, but after that he's really persona non grata for me. I always wonder what Robert Culp would have thought of his good...

A bit late and on the periphery of the topic at that, but managed to watch the Thanksgiving episodes for BACHELOR FATHER (streamed) and THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (DVD). In the former, "Bentley's Double Play," S3E11, from November 26, 1959, Uncle Bentley is drafted into helping an ESL night class of...

Here is the nice, encouraging reply I received from Logan Betz, Director Of Operations for Film Chest, in response to my thank you note for DECOY and DEADLINE:

Of course, money talks the loudest, so it's great we are purchasing this release, but I'm still going to try and write the company and personally thank them for keeping vintage TV alive on physical media. It may mean nothing to them or perhaps it will help encourage them to keep going. Whatever...

My Christmas TV screenings have begun with the first holiday episode of THE BOB NEWHART SHOW from the first season airing only two days before Christmas in 1972. I didn't remember it at all, so it was fun to see, but it actually was just OK. The story involved Bob's group therapy patients...