What the hell. when did you order it. I placed an order through that same guy and have yet to get a confirmation. Placed the order at 12:00 pm on Monday. Still haven't got confirmation. What the ****!?

I'm waiting to see if they show at my Borders too. I was hoping they'd arrive early. I told the store manager that if they arrived, I was buying one for myself. I felt that Disney's recall negated the street date. He agreed, but they're still not on the way. We'll have to see what happens.

I have yet to receive any confirmation from my purchase on Half.com.

Don't they have a couple days to confirm?

I think so, yes. I only posted that because someone asked earlier in the thread if I had heard anything. I hope it will ship. Like I said, the seller appears pretty reliable...it once took like 5 days to get a purchase confirmed from a Half.com seller, so I am not really worried about it yet - it has been less than 24 hours.

Has there been any word on the reason for the recall?

Not yet, still waiting.

Really? I just placed an order at FYE about an hour ago....just for the heck of it. I am sure my order there will be canceled...

Made a mistake about FYE, it didn't show up on the regular search. Choose other formats and it pops up.

I hope you guys enjoy your defective dvds.

How do you know they are defective and weren't recalled for another reason (such as copyright)? If you know something, spill the beans!

Yeah, how do you know?

I also bought the Ed Wood DVD on Half.com from returnwarehouse yesterday, 1/26/04.

An FYI, according to half.com, my status has changed from "awaiting confirmation" to "packaging", this morning.

I have not received a confirmation e-mail as of yet, however.

Hopefully, this is good news for those of us who bought from returnwarehouse.

Besides what slop101 knows about this release (which I don't think is much), there are 3 reasons I can think of that would have pushed back the release date:

1.) Technical (bad discs, etc.)
2.) Legal (copyright, etc.)
3.) Promotional (Big Fish, PotC tie-ins, etc.)

Let's look at each of them:

1.) Technical
I find it rather easy to rule this out because I've seen posts talking about the disc playing just fine. If BV's quality control were to catch the problem, it would have done so before the discs were packaged and shipped. If the error was caught post-QC, they could have let the release slide and let consumers exchange the discs at a later date (a la Back to the Future).

2.) Legal
Well, this was probably the reason for the first release date slide, back in August of 2002, but no official word has been given. If it was the issue back then, it is doubtful (but possible) that another legal issue would tie it up again, especially a year and a half later.

3.) Promotional
This is my pick of the three, but it appears that there can be no "Big Fish" tie-in, because Burton was not nominated. Depp and Murray were nominated, and the winner will be announced Feb. 29th. If this was the case, I wonder if BV would simply send stickers out to the retailers or recall the discs and apply the stickers themselves. The reason I ask is that we've heard of some retailers being told to ship the discs back.

On a related note, my disc from Half.com (returnwarehouse) is now in "packaging!"
No email yet, but it's nice to see the status change!

I know discs have been delayed for promotional reasons, but I can't think of one that was actually recalled.

oh, sorry... I should have added this:

It seems that any added sales generated by some promotional tie-in with Ed Wood, would be negated by the cost of recalling the discs. Legal troubles is my guess for the delay.

My status has changed to packaging as well ! Like I said before - if it is a defective disc, we should have no problems getting it replaced.

I guess I will keep mine sealed for the time being to see if this sucker appreciates in value.

My status has changed to "PACKAGING" too.

I just got an "Order Confirmed" email from my order with returnwarehouse! Status is still "Packaging."

No movement yet on my order with totalcampus.com.

An addendum to possible resons for the recall:

a) wouldn't a possible tie-in with Oscar® noms have been considered when the 2/3 release date was first set? It's not as if they would have forgotten about the Oscars until last week.

b) Rudolph Grey is on record as not liking some things that were said by a certain pair of siblings on the commentary. But that sort of thing is covered by those pogeybait commentary disclaimers, right? The only time I know of that a commentary with nasty comments about someone resulted in a recalled DVD was Media Blasters 2019: After The Fall of New York .

Also, not to be a bring-down, but the UK R2 disc is a big compromise. It is anamorphic, and has that featurette on transvestism that apparently isn't on the new recalled disc(you're not missing much), but it is a SINGLE LAYER DISC, and it shows. And you haven't heard the worst effects of a PAL speed-up until you've heard Bill Murray's voice on this disc.

Time to check your E-mails again, boys ... I'm sure we're all waiting anxiously checking and re-checking ... anyway, I got my E-mail as of about ten minutes ago (12:26 EST). Packaging, and they say it's shipping by tommorrow.

woo!

I ordered at about 4 p.m. central time and got seller confirmation a few hours later. My status says packaging now.

what the hell. still nothing for me. i'm really starting to get pissed. i dunno if i should order from the third person on half.com now just in case. i'm wondering iif i'm getting screwed here because i only have four feedbacks (which are all positive).