Raging Bull transfer has a major visual flaw

[henry_the_horse]

I recently purchased "Raging Bull" (awesome movie) on Blu-ray and finally got around to watching it tonight. Unfortunately I discovered my copy's transfer is botched with a major visual flaw. About a fourth way in from the right side of the screen there is a few inch wide bright vertical bar present throughout the entire movie. At first I thought my television's display was starting to go bad but when paused you can tell it's apart of the picture. I also tested out other color and black & white movies, video games, etc and it's only present during "Raging Bull". The internet only yielded one report of this issue, but it's the exact same issue so I know it's a real problem...
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article...ew-raging-bull (first paragraph)
...I was surprised not to find a thing here on the forums or any word of Fox releasing a press statement or having a replacement program. I reported the issue to Fox through http://www.foxstore.com/contact.html so I'll report if they're replacing these bad copies, assuming they have good copies.

In the meantime, has this been an issue for any one else? Hasn't any one bothered watching their copy of "Raging Bull"? Or am I in the unlucky minority?

Note: UPC 839041351480; purchased through Amazon ten days ago.

[RyRyMcNizzy13]

mine worked just fine and actually thought it was a great transfer so seems like ur in the monority on this one. just get a refund and get another copy.

[henry_the_horse]

Originally Posted by RyRyMcNizzy13

mine worked just fine and actually thought it was a great transfer so seems like ur in the monority on this one. just get a refund and get another copy.

Is your UPC number different?

[RyRyMcNizzy13]

actually yeah my UPC# is 88390413514280. didnt even think to look at that but looking at ur ups it looks very similar with a few #'s missing are you sure you put ur upc down right?

[henry_the_horse]

Originally Posted by RyRyMcNizzy13

actually yeah my UPC# is 88390413514280. didnt even think to look at that but looking at ur ups it looks very similar with a few #'s missing are you sure you put ur upc down right?

It's the same. I think you only count the large digits, or at least that's how Fox's website wanted it.

[retablo]

Mine has the same flaw. There was a thread about this a while back and some people saw the bar and some didn't.

[adh56]

Haven't watched mine yet but the UPC is 8 83904 13514 2 80

[Gremal]

As you can see, the bar is simply not there and it has nothing to do with my display device (which I can assure you is tweaked within a hair of being professionally calibrated). Maybe the bottom line is that some BDs were authored with the defect and others weren't.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movie...ow=screenshots

[henry_the_horse]

Originally Posted by Gremal

As you can see, the bar is simply not there and it has nothing to do with my display device (which I can assure you is tweaked within a hair of being professionally calibrated). Maybe the bottom line is that some DVDs were authored with the defect and others weren't.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movie...ow=screenshots

I agree with your assessment, or at least something down those lines. It just seemed like people thought I was being overly picky and/or a conspiracy theorist.

I'd also like to note that if this defect is also on replacements from Amazon that it doesn't give us a definitive answer. Amazon, like any other retailer, will probably just swap your original copy with the next one in the pile. Since Fox hasn't done a recall who's saying the next copies to go out aren't residuals? Getting a replacement through Fox is probably the clearest answer possible besides Fox publicly admitting to the flaw.