Universal Does it Again w/ The Hulk (1 Viewer)

[Shane_M]

Like most people I know here in town we all ran out to pick up The Hulk at our local retailer, being Wal-Mart or Zellers. Widescreen copies were bought, however, what was inside was not the widescreen edition, but the full screen edition.

When I went back to the store there was nothing they could do because apparently their whole shipment was tainted. Anyone else run across this?

 

[Nick T Robot]

Customers SMASH!!!



I would be so pissed. I go to a lot of trouble to get Widesceeen, and I am teaching my young son the benefits of OAR.

 

[DonRoeber]

Fortunately, my discs were widescreen. Unfortunately, Universal HAS done it again. Forced trailers suck.

 

[Chad A Wright]

My set was fine. That would be a pain, though, since we specifically look for widescreen and buy it for a reason. Imagine the common public, who doesn't really care and just accepts it.

 

[Nick T Robot]

Do you think this is a way to push foolscreen(4:3) on to people? It doesn't make sense to me. I have heard arguments that the make foolscreen(4:3) to make money, many people don't understand Widescreen and wouldn't buy it, but in this case people are buying WS. And doesn't it cost more money to produce a 4:3 version of a WS movie?

 

[WillG]

Do you think this is a way to push foolscreen(4:3) on to people? It doesn't make sense to me. I have heard arguments that the make foolscreen(4:3) to make money, many people don't understand Widescreen and wouldn't buy it, but in this case people are buying WS. And doesn't it cost more money to produce a 4:3 version of a WS movie?

I doubt, if this was done intentionally, I'm sure it is an illegal move so it is probably just a screw up, which Uinversal has been monumentally known for lately. As for Added costs of a Fullscreen version. I would say it depends. If it is an open matte film, it probably costs more to do a WS transfer as the telecine operator has to matte down the original negative (although I'm not entirely sure of the process), but this would be vice versa with a Anamorphic film in which a telecine operator has to do the reformatting for a 4X3. As fas as FS being done for the purposes of making money, yes because they will sell to J6P, however, WS DVD in about 9 out of 10 cases sell better than P&S.

 

[Tony Whalen]

I was at my local Wal-Mart last night. (No, not to buy DVD's....I don't buy 'em there.)

They had signs up at all their registers saying this:

Due to a manufacturing error, Widescreen Hulk DVD's contain the Fullscreen version of the film. We apologize for this inconvenience.

I then had a conversation with a fellow in line about how purchasing fullscreen is out-of-the-question. He totally agreed. Always nice to hear that.

 

[WillG]

Due to a manufacturing error, Widescreen Hulk DVD's contain the Fullscreen version of the film. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Doesn't seem like they care about rectifying the situation.

 

[Lyle_JP]

Forced trailers = no sale.

Universal, are you listening? I sure hope your new regime does.

-Lyle J.P.

 

[Tony Whalen]

Doesn't seem like they care about rectifying the situation.

Exactly what my wife said Will. Almost word-for-word. Yet another reason I won't buy DVD's at Wallymart.

 

[Michael Hall]

You know, it's sad, but I've gotten to a point where I purposely won't buy any Universal discs until a few months have gone by so I can make sure there aren't any widespread defects with their discs. After the BTTF snafu, this was a decision I had to make. Despite this self-imposed waiting period, I wound up having to exchange the Director's Edition of "Red Dragon" three times because the bonus disc was defective. Does Universal not have a quality control department or something? First the Jurassic Park films, then the BTTF box set, and now this? I wasn't going to buy "The Hulk" anyway (I didn't care for the film), but even if I was, I'd like to know that I was getting a defect-free disc!

 

[Nate Anderson]

The Hulk DVD that I purchased worked just fine. However, the Director's Edition of Red Dragon I bought did have the PAN-AND-SCAN version in it. I quickly returned it and exchanged it for a widescreen copy.

 

[EricSunde]

I bought mine at Wal-Mart on Tuesday, and it had the widescreen disc inside the widescreen box. I guess I must have been lucky.

 

[Arthur Legardo]

Did your movies come with an insert?

 

[Eric Eash]

i just made a custom insert for the hulk and it should be up on www.dvdcoverart.com shortly. but, to get it for free, go toHulk Insert

i hope you guys like it, let me know any suggestions.

eric