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Minority Report Definitive Edition a Fox Rip-Off ??
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorUnclejumpy
Registered: April 1, 2007
United Kingdom Posts: 4
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Sirs,

I have just purchased Minority Report as a "Definitive Edition" EAN number 5 039036 030076.

I already have, what I think are, all of the other titles in the "Definitive Edition" collection and all of the rest come in SteelBook packaging. This one has been supplied with a sleeve over an ordinary plastic keep case.

I purchased it from Amazon, see page:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000M2E5DO/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
Where it is shown in SteelBook packaging.

I checked with the two disc version of the film I own, EAN number 5 039036 010382, and the two disc are exactly the same, Disc 1: 7F610134A1D2534E and Disc 2: 81BC6743A42EDD03 but with different printing. This is also borne out by their respective entries on DVD Profiler.

If this is not a fake then this must be a blatant marketing ploy to extend the sales of this DVD, by just changing the packaging and re badging it as a definitive edition.

I look forward to hearing your responses to the above, and in the meantime I have made both Fox's and Amazon's complaint departments aware of this issue.

Regards

PS: Does anyone know of anywhere I can find an accurate list of the Fox "Definitive Editions" ??
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorbizarre_eye
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Registered: May 1, 2008
United Kingdom Posts: 503
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Fox released them all as steelbooks on initial release. Further re-releases were re-packaged in keepcases with slip-covers. They are identical, except for the packaging.

Releasing companies do this all the time, whereby they drop certain aspects of the original DVD release to cut costs - usually they dispose of the slip cover first, any inserted booklets (apart from the advertising junk , of course), and will re-issue in keep cases as these are cheaper. As DVD Profiler's data will always stand-by what was on the initial release, you will see a few packaging anomalies if purchasing older release DVD's now (e.g. in Region 2 UK land you'll see a lot of Digipaks, that are now only available as keepcases: American Werewolf in London, The Fog etc. as well as Titles that were released with slip covers, which have now been dropped - e.g. Pulp Fiction, The Rock etc.)

My bet is if you were to order any of the Fox definitive editions now, you would receive the keepcase/slip-cover version - unless you bought from somewhere like eBay where they'd have to state the case type in the description.
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