Doug Kennedy
Auditioning
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2002
- Messages
- 10
I think that we need to start taking action on this. The removal of extras/audio tracks to fit in French tracks, making bilingual covers when they are double sided anyways, delaying most releases (Clerks X for example) and in some cases going as far as removing the widescreen option from a disc is pure false advertisment.
I'm sure most of you, as well as I, are sick of this and maybe we can use this thread to warn people of new or past releases that have been modified by Alliance.
But warning people isn't enough. We also need to:
1. All send e-mails to Alliance expressing our anger towards this.
EDIT - Here is an email address for someone higher up rather than the standard homevideo one(Thanks ChristianB): The main guy is David Partridge. He is the Vice President, Home Video, Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution
His email is:
[email protected]
2. Buy imported U.S. versions of discs that Alliance changed either at Amazon.ca (most of the time they stock the import U.S. version for about a week or so after release) or Ebay.
I'm also going to keep an updated list of these modified DVD's so as usual, if anyone knows any discs that have been modified just post them into this thread and I will add them to the main list.
Modified DVD's
Bowling for Columbine - Burnt-in subtitles removed for Canadian release and replaced with player generated ones.
Clerks X - Most likely changed as the release date is
September 21st, 2 weeks later than the U.S. date. Will update this when discs are released. Edit - Now it's delayed until September 5th - Thanks again ChristianB!
The English Patient - DTS track removed to fit French audio track.
Freaky Friday - This one's bad...they actually removed the widescreen version off of the disc (it was dual layer with Full screen on the other layer) to fit a french language track!
The Punisher (2004) - Does not contain the advertised prequel comic book. Instead, it is replaced with a plain chapter insert.
Red Heat: Special Edition - Same as Clerks X. Released September 7th in U.S., delayed until the 21st here. Will update when disc is released.
The Running Man: Ultimate Edition - DTS 6.1 ES Discrete audio track removed to fit French 2.0 audio track.
Stir of Echoes: Special Edition - DTS 6.1 ES Discrete audio track removed to fit French audio track.
New!Blade II - I've found out that there is a single disc release now being sold and the two disc SE has been discontinued....is this the same in the U.S.?
Also we can't forget all the botched bilingual covers but there are too many to list here. Maybe one day when I have a lot of time on my hands!
I'm sure most of you, as well as I, are sick of this and maybe we can use this thread to warn people of new or past releases that have been modified by Alliance.
But warning people isn't enough. We also need to:
1. All send e-mails to Alliance expressing our anger towards this.
EDIT - Here is an email address for someone higher up rather than the standard homevideo one(Thanks ChristianB): The main guy is David Partridge. He is the Vice President, Home Video, Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution
His email is:
[email protected]
2. Buy imported U.S. versions of discs that Alliance changed either at Amazon.ca (most of the time they stock the import U.S. version for about a week or so after release) or Ebay.
I'm also going to keep an updated list of these modified DVD's so as usual, if anyone knows any discs that have been modified just post them into this thread and I will add them to the main list.
Modified DVD's
Bowling for Columbine - Burnt-in subtitles removed for Canadian release and replaced with player generated ones.
Clerks X - Most likely changed as the release date is
September 21st, 2 weeks later than the U.S. date. Will update this when discs are released. Edit - Now it's delayed until September 5th - Thanks again ChristianB!
The English Patient - DTS track removed to fit French audio track.
Freaky Friday - This one's bad...they actually removed the widescreen version off of the disc (it was dual layer with Full screen on the other layer) to fit a french language track!
The Punisher (2004) - Does not contain the advertised prequel comic book. Instead, it is replaced with a plain chapter insert.
Red Heat: Special Edition - Same as Clerks X. Released September 7th in U.S., delayed until the 21st here. Will update when disc is released.
The Running Man: Ultimate Edition - DTS 6.1 ES Discrete audio track removed to fit French 2.0 audio track.
Stir of Echoes: Special Edition - DTS 6.1 ES Discrete audio track removed to fit French audio track.
New!Blade II - I've found out that there is a single disc release now being sold and the two disc SE has been discontinued....is this the same in the U.S.?
Also we can't forget all the botched bilingual covers but there are too many to list here. Maybe one day when I have a lot of time on my hands!