toy car(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 17th January 2002, 00:05
Mods, I hope you dont mind me cross posting this in the retailer, general and software forums. Just felt given the nature of it I should try to get as many ppl to see it as I could as it is somthing that may effect many of them if they do not know what to look for in a boot leg DVD.
My bro has just got a copy of Boondock Saints, from a UK based online retailer for £18. he has used this company many times and has never had a problem, untill now. I am not going to name them, because I have not yet heard there side of the story and could well be as much a victim as my bro.
On reciveing the disc my bro noticed that the extras listed on the web site were not encluded on the disc recived. He sent them an email asking about this, and got a reply that said there had been an error on there web site and the disc he has is correct and no other is available.
A few days later he lends me the disc. I was not there when he droped it off, but as soon as I got my hands on it some thing did not feel quite right.
The production of the disk felt very cheap, the printing of the disc was very poor. Putting the disk in the player i noticed some thing else that was wrong, the box says that the ratio is 1.85:1, but it was playing back as 2.35:1, it was also none anamorphic.
so came to the net and did a little research and the disc was all wrong.
so I put the disc in my pc and discover that the disc is only single layer, were as it should be dual. on taking the disc out of my PC and having a good look at it under bright light, I see the word BLANK writen on the top of it!!!
So it looks to me as though this company is passing off DVDR`s as the real deal!
Now this is from a big uk online retailer, that carries the the Which Web Trader logo on the home page!
He is going to ring them in the morning to see what they say, I for one would like to know what they say.
So go check your disc. You dont know what you might find.
TC.
If you want to reply to this please do so in the retailer forum!
This item was edited on Thursday, 17th January 2002, 00:06
