Aliens director's cut skipped a scene w/ Sigourney and Paul Reiser on my new Philips 726. Argh!

Is it the "seamless" branching?

I have returned two boxed sets of the quadrilogy to Amazon. Both boxes had at least one disk so badly scratched it froze up. I also found one or two disks that froze without any apparent marks on them. After two sets, I just got a refund from Amazon. I am waiting at the moment...trying to decide whether to try the box set again, or go with the individual CE's.

That must really suck. Do you have to pay for the shipping either way?

I was running into the same problem so I ordered a replacement from Amazon (w/o shipping the current one back) between the two sets I was able to come up w/ a good one and ship a bad one back I agree though the fact we have to go through this in the first place is a PITA

Smart move on your part....I thought of that after I got the defective 2nd set.

Amazon reimbursed all shipping costs, so I am out no money...except for the fact I sold my Legacy Set. I'm skiddish about what to buy next....going to give it a little time to decide and watch prices.

I've been in correspondence with Fox over sratched disk problems I've had with two Quadrilogy sets. This email is in response to my inquiry as to whether they will be taking measures to correct the problem in future sets:

"The problem is the way the DVD set is handled when being shipped or stocked. If the set is knocked or dropped or even thrown, the DVDs inside and knocked free from the teeth and then are scratched by the teeth. Fox is in the process of eliminating the Digi packs that the Alien DVD set was sold in. At this time, I do not believe that Fox will change the case of the Alien set."

Thank you,
Megan R
Fox Consumer
1-888-223-2369
1-888-443-4369 Fax
[email protected]
[email protected]

By the way, neither set I purchased had any loose disks...they had to have been scratched at their assembly.

Regardless, I guess I will wait a few months and see what changes they end up making to this set. I've emailed her back and asked what the new packaging will consist of....hoping it is similar to the current individual DVDs. Will update this post with her response if she comes back with one.

The Alien Theatrical Cut with DTS played with no problems on my Panasonic RP-82.

The SE of Aliens also played flawlessly. I have yet to check Alien 3 and Resurrection, but at the price I paid, those two were basically free.

No problems on any disc in my circa-2000 Toshiba SD-2200. I love this player....

too bad it's not progressive scan

Yeah, right. It got to be a miracle to get fingerprints on those discs when being shipped or stocked. The real problem is they paid some minimum-wage workers to assembly the sets without teaching them the proper way to handle the discs.

Not gonna happen for a long time. They just released and will be releasing a series of premium 2-disc sets with spine numbers on them. If they are releasing some in digipaks and others in keepcases later, it will piss people off.

I just got a reply to another email to Fox asking for more details on the new packaging. Here's her reply:

"The new multi-DVD sets are going to be released in the individual, slimmer DVD cases."

Thank you,
Megan R
Fox Consumer
1-888-223-2369
1-888-443-4369 Fax
[email protected]
[email protected]


When? will me my next question to her....will keep you posted....