Question: La Bamba/Buddy Holly Story DVD Set
06-01-06, 10:53 PM
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Question: La Bamba/Buddy Holly Story DVD Set
Hi,
I am considering buying this set but I was wondering if anyone could help me determine if The Buddy Holly Story DVD includes the WS version or if it's just the FS. The reason I ask is because the one in the set is listed as FS most everywhere, but so is the single-disc release of the same film, and I know for a fact some of them are flippers with WS and FS.
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I am considering buying this set but I was wondering if anyone could help me determine if The Buddy Holly Story DVD includes the WS version or if it's just the FS. The reason I ask is because the one in the set is listed as FS most everywhere, but so is the single-disc release of the same film, and I know for a fact some of them are flippers with WS and FS.
Thanks.
01-23-08, 01:41 AM
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While this is two years late. I did some searching online after spotting the set for $6 at Cub Foods the other night. And it's reported that The Buddy Holly Story is fullscreen only despite claiming to be 16.9 widescreen on the package!
The original release of the film was a flipper with WS and FS versions on separate sides. And as we all know. Columbia in their infinite wisdom rereleased all those flipper discs in FS only.
Now I'm wonder if BHS is open matte or cropped? If it's open matte,I'd be up for buying the double pack for that price. And would it be possible to contact Sony and get the disc replaced with the WS version because of the false advertising or not?
The original release of the film was a flipper with WS and FS versions on separate sides. And as we all know. Columbia in their infinite wisdom rereleased all those flipper discs in FS only.
Now I'm wonder if BHS is open matte or cropped? If it's open matte,I'd be up for buying the double pack for that price. And would it be possible to contact Sony and get the disc replaced with the WS version because of the false advertising or not?
02-03-08, 12:46 PM
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So today is the 49th anniversary of the Day the Music Died and I got a hankering to watch the Buddy Holly Story. So I hop on over to Amazon and I see that not only is it a relatively bare-bones edition whose only special feature is, depending on which edition you get, either a commentary or La Bamba. Add to that the fact that the current release is in 4:3? What a mess.
Come on, Sony. This is an Oscar winning film, with an Oscar-nominee lead performance. Doesn't it deserve a decent release? Put out a special edition. Load it up with documentaries, get a commentary by the surviving Crickets ... heck, see if you can get the rights to the McCartney documentary and package it all together as a two-disc set! But give us an edition of the Buddy Holly story worthy of Buddy Holly.
Come on, Sony. This is an Oscar winning film, with an Oscar-nominee lead performance. Doesn't it deserve a decent release? Put out a special edition. Load it up with documentaries, get a commentary by the surviving Crickets ... heck, see if you can get the rights to the McCartney documentary and package it all together as a two-disc set! But give us an edition of the Buddy Holly story worthy of Buddy Holly.
02-05-08, 02:34 AM
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They didn't change the UPC codes!!!
Originally Posted by Julie Walker
The original release of the film was a flipper with WS and FS versions on separate sides. And as we all know. Columbia in their infinite wisdom rereleased all those flipper discs in FS only.
April 8, 2005
Dear Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Customer:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is currently in the process of reworking the Aspect Ratios on select DVDs. These particular DVDs, which in the past have included both Widescreen and Full screen presentations on a single disc, are now being reworked to include only one presentation, Wide OR Full screen. A number of these have been completed and repackaged to reflect this change, and are listed in the table below.
Catalog numbers and UPC Codes remain the same. Please update your systems as necessary to reflect these changes.
We will continue to update you regularly as more DVDs are converted. Please contact your Sales Representative or Client Operations Associate with any questions.
Sincerely,
Client Operations
Dear Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Customer:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is currently in the process of reworking the Aspect Ratios on select DVDs. These particular DVDs, which in the past have included both Widescreen and Full screen presentations on a single disc, are now being reworked to include only one presentation, Wide OR Full screen. A number of these have been completed and repackaged to reflect this change, and are listed in the table below.
Catalog numbers and UPC Codes remain the same. Please update your systems as necessary to reflect these changes.
We will continue to update you regularly as more DVDs are converted. Please contact your Sales Representative or Client Operations Associate with any questions.
Sincerely,
Client Operations
| Title | Catalog # | New Aspect Ratio |
| 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up | DVD 05984 | Full Screen |
| About Last Night | DVD 07359 | Full Screen |
| Adventures of Milo and Otis, The | DVD 50149 | Full Screen |
| Air Force One | DVD 71889 | Full Screen |
| All About My Mother | DVD 04719 | Widescreen |
| And Justice For All | DVD 05819 | Full Screen |
| As Good As It Gets | DVD 21709 | Widescreen |
| Assignment, The | DVD 28359 | Widescreen |
| Bear, The | DVD 03994 | Full Screen |
| Beast, The | DVD 06200 | Full Screen |
| Big Daddy | DVD 03922 | Widescreen |
| Bite the Bullet | DVD 07761 | Full Screen |
| Black Dragon | DVD 01685 | Widescreen |
| Body Double | DVD 04119 | Full Screen |
| Body, The | DVD 06595 | Full Screen |
| Breed, The | DVD 06783 | Widescreen |
| Buddy | DVD 05617 | Full Screen |
| Buddy Holly Story, The | DVD 08019 | Full Screen |
| Chances Are | DVD 70159 | Full Screen |
| Cheap Detective, The | DVD 90399 | Full Screen |
| Cruel Intentions 2 | DVD 05841 | Full Screen |
| Dance With Me | DVD 23949 | Full Screen |
| Deep End of the Ocean | DVD 02851 | Full Screen |
| Desert Heat | DVD 04226 | Full Screen |
| Desperate Measures | DVD 21759 | Full Screen |
| Dick | DVD 04001 | Widescreen |
| Excess Baggage | DVD 82309 | Full Screen |
| Eye of the Beholder | DVD 05052 | Full Screen |
| Fan, The | DVD 82479 | Full Screen |
| Forsaken, The | DVD 06453 | Widescreen |
| Futuresport | DVD 03302 | Full Screen |
| Gattaca | DVD 82649 | Full Screen |
| Geronimo: An American Legend | DVD 58709 | Full Screen |
| Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - Restored | DVD 05419 | Full Screen |
| Hard Times | DVD 03063 | Full Screen |
| Hero | DVD 51569 | Full Screen |
| Hideaway | DVD 05273 | Full Screen |
| High School High | DVD 82489 | Full Screen |
| Hollywood Knights | DVD 21894 | Widescreen |
| Homegrown | DVD 25329 | Widescreen |
| Hush | DVD 02356 | Full Screen |
| I Dreamed of Africa | DVD 04606 | Full Screen |
| Idle Hands | DVD 03931 | Full Screen |
| Iron Eagle | DVD 83969 | Full Screen |
| It Could Happen To You | DVD 72819 | Widescreen |
| Jackie Chan's Who Am I? | DVD 02717 | Full Screen |
| Jawbreaker | DVD 03615 | Full Screen |
| Juror, The | DVD 11609 | Full Screen |
| Knock Off | DVD 25889 | Full Screen |
| Last Action Hero, The | DVD 27939 | Full Screen |
| Last Dragon, The | DVD 05985 | Widescreen |
| Lords of Flatbush | DVD 04540 | Widescreen |
| MacKenna's Gold | DVD 03709 | Full Screen |
| Madeline | DVD 02718 | Full Screen |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | DVD 78719 | Full Screen |
| Mercy | DVD 05080 | Full Screen |
| Mirror Has Two Faces, The | DVD 82529 | Full Screen |
| Mixed Nuts | DVD 06534 | Full Screen |
| Mortal Thoughts | DVD 50749 | Full Screen |
| Moscow on the Hudson | DVD 06536 | Full Screen |
| Mrs. Winterbourne | DVD 07742 | Full Screen |
| My Life | DVD 05853 | Full Screen |
| My Stepmother Is An Alien | DVD 61029 | Full Screen |
| No Mercy | DVD 83759 | Full Screen |
| No Way Back | DVD 05818 | Full Screen |
| Nowhere to Run | DVD 52379 | Full Screen |
| Odessa File, The | DVD 03299 | Full Screen |
| Order, The | DVD 08426 | Full Screen |
| Peggy Sue Got Married | DVD 81849 | Full Screen |
| Revenge | DVD 50219 | Full Screen |
| River Runs Through It, A | DVD 03933 | Widescreen |
| Roxanne | DVD 08539 | Full Screen |
| Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo | DVD 05988 | Full Screen |
| School Daze | DVD 05834 | Full Screen |
| Screamers | DVD 11869 | Full Screen |
| Sheena | DVD 06535 | Full Screen |
| Silent Rage | DVD 05277 | Full Screen |
| Sniper | DVD 70759 | Widescreen |
| So I Married An Axe Murderer | DVD 52429 | Widescreen |
| Spice World | DVD 01770 | Full Screen |
| Starman | DVD 04129 | Full Screen |
| Stepmom | DVD 02852 | Full Screen |
| Suspect | DVD 05857 | Full Screen |
| Sweet and Lowdown | DVD 04757 | Full Screen |
| Thirteenth Floor, The (Special Edition) | DVD 02848 | Full Screen |
| Toy, The | DVD 06542 | Full Screen |
| Two Moon Junction | DVD 09669 | Full Screen |
| Universal Soldier: The Return | DVD 03934 | Full Screen |
| Whatever It Takes | DVD 05285 | Full Screen |
| Whipped | DVD 05500 | Full Screen |
| Wild Things (Rated) | DVD 02411 | Full Screen |
The letter from Sony and the table of reissued titles was copied from here. In that thread, posts #44 and #49 list additional titles beyond the 91 original (above) that may have been reduced to a single aspect ratio.
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02-05-08, 03:27 AM
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I finally was able to obtain a WS copy of Buddy Holly after two and a half years of searching. It's a long story of buying multiple copies and being disappointed. At one point (June 2006), my brother received a WS/FS flipper in a Buddy Holly/La Bamba double pack ordered from DDD. In that particular double pack (Buddy Holly/La Bamba), I've learned from experience that it's hit or miss as to what aspect ratio of Buddy Holly you might find. I quickly ordered a copy for myself but got the 1-sided FS version instead. The double pack is clearly labeled as containing a 1:85:1 anamorphic widescreen version and so I returned my FS only version to DDD. Same thing happened in Sept 2007 when a co-worker found a WS/FS flipper in a double pack purchased from a local Wal-Mart. Customer service at Wal-Mart opened the three remaining boxes only to find FS only copies.
Finally, I called Sony Home Video to politely complain that the packaging said WS, that indeed I knew people who had received WS/FS copies, but all I could find were FS copies. They asked me to mail my copy to a service center and two (2) weeks later, they mailed me a WS/FS flipper! (Note: I had to send them the entire packaging with the La Bamba disc so that Sony could verify that my packaging did indeed say WS on the box.)
Whew! Finally!
Finally, I called Sony Home Video to politely complain that the packaging said WS, that indeed I knew people who had received WS/FS copies, but all I could find were FS copies. They asked me to mail my copy to a service center and two (2) weeks later, they mailed me a WS/FS flipper! (Note: I had to send them the entire packaging with the La Bamba disc so that Sony could verify that my packaging did indeed say WS on the box.)
Whew! Finally!
02-05-08, 03:54 AM
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The copy I received from Columbia House is the flipper. 
It's been over a year so I'm not sure what you'd get sent today. I see it's an enrollment selection as well. I bought mine thru their FunCash system, around $4.
It's been over a year so I'm not sure what you'd get sent today. I see it's an enrollment selection as well. I bought mine thru their FunCash system, around $4.
