Went in to Best Buy yesterday to pick up Matrix Reloaded with the Best
Buy bonus DVD as advertised. They had tons of them but the bonus DVD
was only attached to about 1/4 of the Widescreen versions and it was on
ALL of the Full-Screen versions. Nothing like trying to force
Full-Screen down our throats.

LVIII

On 15 Oct 2003 13:10:15 -0500, Lord Vader III wrote:

That makes absolutely no sense. Best Buy sells a ton of widescreen TVs,
so why would they be wanting to force full-screen down anyone's throats?
For that matter, they could simply stop carrying widescreen when there is
an alternative, if that's their goal.

You know, not everything that doesn't go your way is a conspiracy.
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I noticed that too...I had to dig through all the fullscreens before I finally
found one WS copy with the extra disc lurking in the back!

On 15 Oct 2003 13:10:15 -0500, Lord Vader III
<lord_vader_iii@hotmail.com> wrote:

What was the bonus DVD they were offering? The Coming Soon DVD?

Lord Vader III <lord_vader_iii@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3F8D8D00.39@hotmail.com>...
The bonus disc is pretty worthless BTW... There is no menu so the only
way of navigation is to go through with the chapter stops.

What do you get?

The original Matrix trailer (the one that was a DVD-ROM feature on the
original disc.)

"What is Bullet Time" (from the original disc)

Behind the scenes on the Animatrix (from the Animatrix)

One full cartoon from the Animatrix

Matrix Reloaded trailer.

That's it.

- Jordan

"Lord Vader III" <lord_vader_iii@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3F8D8D00.39@hotmail.com...
Sounds more like they're trying not to get stuck with so many of them on the
shelf.

Phil7101 wrote:
I was told that each Best Buy got a bunch of Matrix Reloaded's -- but
not all of them had the bonus disk, my store said approximately 1/3 did.
I went this morning to buy 3 copies and found that most of the copies
did NOT have the bonus disk.

My daughter called me last night to tell me that ALL of the bonus disk
widescreen versions were sold out at her bestbuy (Syracuse NY) but they
still had plenty of full screen bonus disk versions. So when I went
this morning to my bestbuy to get them for three of us, I had to look
through the display case at the front of the store through about 50
copies to find 3 bonus disk widescreen copies. They had many more full
screen bonus disk copies. And they had more with no bonus disk than
they did with bonus disk.

So my interpretation is that most of the buyers who wanted the bonus
disk wanted the wide screen version of the movie, so all of them sold
more quickly than the full screen ones.

They appear to have underestimated the ws/fs preferences by first day
buyers.

YMMV

dick

When I was in Best buy in Canada, they had a display of Reloaded. One
half was Fullscreen, the other half (I assume) was Widescreen, however
there were only a few left (like about 5) while there was plenty (up to
50+) of the fullscreen. Made me feel glad.

I bought my copy at Wal-mart. When I went in there I found two copies,
one Fullscreen, one widescreen. Seems they sold out fast. OR are slow as
molasses in re-stocking


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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:04:00 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:

Shhh!
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On 15 Oct 2003 13:10:15 -0500, Lord Vader III
<lord_vader_iii@hotmail.com> wrote:

Stores just don't get it. I work at Walmart and we put out 1000
copies of widescreen and 1000 copies of FF at midnight. When I went
in today (Wed) we had 321 lbx left and 961 ff left. Whoever does the
purchasing just can't seem to understand that people want LBX. We
have 200+ copies of FF Italian Job and are totally out of LBX Italian
Job and at least 8 customers left PISSED and WITHOUT a copy today when
I had to tell them all we had was FF.

We got in 5 HUGE boxes of the Indy Jones box set today. One box is
LBX and 4 boxes are FF. I already stashed my LBX copy under the
register cause I know the LBX are going to be gone by 12:05am next
Tue. Will be interesting to see how many disgruntled people break
down and buy the FF out of desperation.

Lord Vader III <lord_vader_iii@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3F8D8D00.39@hotmail.com>...

They probably had more fullscreen versions because noone is buying the damn things.

-Eric

On 16 Oct 2003 06:08:28 -0700, Eric R. wrote:

Peter?
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<< Will be interesting to see how many disgruntled people break
down and buy the FF out of desperation. >>

That's assuming anyone's DESPARATE for this over-blown set... jeez. Would
anyone really do something like that if they were into widescreen, ever? C'mon.
I'd be worried if it were Criterion, but this is Spielberg and Lucas (and
paramount?) we're talking about here.

Dick Sidbury <DrJamesSidbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bmkp7m$o42ci$1@ID-109339.news.uni-berlin.de>...

It makes sense when you think about it... the people who prefer
widescreen are going to be more likely to want the bonus disc. The
people who don't want widescreen could probably care less.

- Jordan

In article <20031016122839.16270.00000909@mb-m19.aol.com>, Wade365
<wade365@aol.com> wrote:

I'd rent the FF version if it was all they had (just as I don't mind
watching films on tv with comercials), but I'd just wait and buy the
LBX version later.

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Angry Gamer wrote:
Thats how it was when I got Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
There were litterally TONS of fullscreen copies everywhere, in large
displays, on skids etc. There was one small display of Widescreen, and
they were mostly gone.


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"Peter" <pdferg@ca.inter.net> wrote in message
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Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that some people complain about
"black bars" when they buy a widescreen copy, but nobody complains about no
black bars (since the widescreen crowd doesn't ever buy the wrong copy, and
even if they do, they'd quietly exchange it)

People who prefer fullscreen are probably a minority, but to retailer's
customer service departments, they might appear to be a vocal majority.

I think it's sorta funny, all the fullscreen versions... at some point, just
like Beta, just like the turntable (neither of which is COMPLETELY exstinct but
you get the idea) these 4:3 televisions will fade out... and then all the
people who purchased fullscreen versions "back in the day" will be pissed that
they're getting ripped off by the new standard...

"Those black bars on the sides of my screen...!"

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