Ah, so I guess I should hold onto my old SE?

Received volumes 3 and 4 from Barnes and Noble and found several problems with volume 3. First I found there was no booklet for From Russia With Love. Second found both of the DVDs were loose inside the Goldeneye case but the discs appear fine. However it appears the case is broken, and it is also a different design compared to the other cases for some reason. Looks like I will have to exchange the set for another one. Hopefully I can do it at my local B&N store instead of mailing it back for another copy.

There was a different design for my Goldeneye and OHMSS cases, too. I wonder how hard it is to match them all up at the factory?

Oh, well. Everything else in volumes 3 & 4 turned out okay for me (I was holding my breath while opening them).

My GoldenEye had the different, crappy case, and had lovely scratches and a few fingerprints on the discs, too. OHMSS was same case as all the others. My Live and Let Die disc 1 was cracked/chipped, missing two slivers from the clear plastic ares around the hub. Can not safely be played. Taking back to B&N store at closest mall to exchange tomorrow...

Oops...I posted to the wrong Bond thread.....But my Vol. 4 had a big issue. Tomorrow Never Dies had to discs of the Special Features, no movie. I didn't have any issue with the booklets on all 4 volumes though. But the Vol. 4 exchange was easy at Circuit City.

I posted on another thread about my Vol. 3 shenanigans. Here's what happened and what I did...

-OHMSS & Goldeneye came in different cases than the others.
-OHMSS contained 9 different scratches on the disc.
-Goldeneye had a few marks on it, but not near as bad as OHMSS.
- I returned the set for another and opened it up in store to check booklets/discs/cases.
-All the cases were like they should have been and all movies were pristine.

I can't get over all the trouble these sets seem to be causing amongst the "crappy" cases, duplicate booklets and missing discs.

Overall I don't have a problem with the sets. Yes one of the movies, "Moonraker" had a number of stratches on it but it was securely set in the case. So I take it was just a bad disc. I didn't have the problem of missing booklets, duplicate booklets or mismatched cases.

Bottom line are these releases were not perfect in terms of packaging but I like the slim cases where I can save alot more space than the previous sets.
The order of the movies in the way they were released is the same as has been done before (mixing the movies) when selling the Bonds as sets. Maybe these will never be released as single movies but for the price paid how can you complain.

For each set I paid less than $50. Under 10 buck a movie. When the Special Editions came out as single movies 6-7 years ago, they were over $20 on sale. Before these sets came out I was able to sell 18 of the 20 SE's (didn't bother with DAD - used price was .99 and Goldeneye - better transfer per Region 4 review) for $280. I had the money for these sets even before release and I still came out ahead.

Until the HD versions come out I'll be a happy camper will great new transfers.
Now I only have to get back to Best Buy to exchange Volume 4. I won't leave the parking lot until I've checked each movie. It's a pain but what are your going to do.

I just received volumes 3 & 4, and have a couple of problems so far. First, GoldenEye was in the strange, alternate case that others have experienced. It was scratched to hell, too, so Amazon is sending me a replacement.

More importantly, my Moonraker disc has something rather funky going on...it appears to have two layer changes! My DVD player always stalls for a second or two with layer changes, but this is the first time I've seen two such pauses on a disc (without scratches or debris on the disc, or being a shitty Universal DVD-18). The first time happens in chapter 15, at the 56:58 mark. The second time is right when the disc switches over to chapter 16, at 59:25. Both times, the disc stalls as if in a layer change. Clearly, the changeover to chapter 16 is the likely change, but what's the deal with the first pause? Has this happened to anybody else's disc?

^^ that's awfully strange

my set (physically) is good. only weird thing is:

V3 - 2/5 movies V4 - 3/5 movies had special features on the left, movie right in the cases.

also, ohmss has a different audio set up: it follows -- ENG DD 5.1, ENG DD 2.0, ENG DTS 5.1. All my others go from 5.1 DD - DTS - 2.0 how weird!!!

Has anyone called or e-mailed MGM to ask why 1/3 of the bonuses from Die Another Day are missing when they were advertised on the box?

Better yet, why does the UE DVD suck? The only great thing about it is the sharper transfer. No DTS-ES, no trailers, no featurettes, no trailers, no Madonna! (the last thing isn't a joke. I liked Die Another Day)

I opened my Volume 3 set this morning, and I didn't notice any packaging errors, or any different cases. I thought maybe the set was devoid of problems. That was until I watched Goldeneye.

About 40 minutes in, the disc started skipping, becoming pixellated, etc in my HD-DVD player. When I took a look at the bottom of the disc, I noticed that it was scratched to Hell and that it was also kind of dirty.

I guess I'll have to return it later today in hope of getting a good set.

I just watched "Tomorrow Never Dies," and the disc has random skips during the helicopter chase in chapter 23. There are no marks on the disc.

So, my TND and Moonraker discs both have mysterious defects (see above). Is anyone else having problems like this?

just tried to play my copy of From Russia WIth Love, and on two seperate players it gave me an error, and check region coding error messages (Zenith and Toshiba). It did play on my trusty old pioneer though. I gave the other disc from box 3&4 a start up, and Octopussy was going nuts...

anyone else had a problem...i assume most everyone has watched FRWL by now who got them on/close to release day.

I also couldn't play FRWL on several players. I've checked a couple other forums, and others are having the same problems. So, I don't know whether to exchange it. Especially since it was given as a gift.

bummer....i'll swap mine out over the weekend and see if it helps...

My dvd player says the (From Russia with love) dvd is dirty and wont play. I got mine from bn.com. Will exchanging do any good?

I thought I was OK with From Russia With Love, but I discovered last night that my main DVD player won't play it.

FRWL plays OK:
Sony DVD-NS75H

FRWL won't play:
Denon 2200 (display on player says 'No Play')

If you are having troubles with From Russia With Love, please list your DVD player so we can see if there is a pattern.

Edit: Just discovered it won't play in my PC DVD-ROM drive either, so I think I probably just got a bad disk.

Good luck with that. I've returned Goldeneye 2 different times and at all instances the disc was loose and scratched. For whatever reason, the Goldeneye DVD case not made correctly (holder too small or broken). I would try just bringing the Goldeneye movie with the box instead of bring the whole set.

I haven't had the chance to quite finish volume 2 yet, but decided to pop out From Russia With Love last night out of my volume 3 set because of all the reports of play back problems. I tried it on my Toshiba HD A1 player and it worked fine. I have about 8 other players and when I have more time I will see if it works in any of them as well.

My From Russia With Love dvd played fine in my older Pioneer player. But now you guys got me nervous and are making me want to take the next week off work so I can go through the discs of all 4 sets to make sure there are no screw ups...

My GOLDENEYE also was loose. Broken dvd holder. I got mine from Circuitt City.

copy #2 of From Russia With Love will not play...

copy #3 is the same.... should I contact MGM on this...Seems a few people can't play this disc

Sounds like From Russia With Love is having compatibility problems with some players. Probably wouldn't hurt to contact MGM to let them know.

I got a chance to try my copy on several more players and it appears to play fine on the following models.

Toshiba SD 3109
Toshiba SD 3900
Liteon LVD-2001
Pioneer DVL 909
Denon DVD-2900

Computer DVD drives
NEC 3550A
BenQ 1620

I returned my set to DDD for exchange because FRWL wouldn't play on my Denon 2200. Seeing that LASERMOVIES's copy plays on a 2900 gives me some hope that I might get one that plays since the video portion of the 2 players is essentially the same.

Geez, I guess I'll hold on to mine.

Definitely contact MGM about it, if you know how. Let us know what they say.

FWIW, I played my FRWL fine on my Oppo player. I haven't tried it in any other players. Sucks people are having so many problems. I have watched all of the movie discs with no problems. Haven't had time to wade through extras though on the special features discs though.

FRWL played fine on my Panasonic 5 Disc player -F84.

These movies look brand new.

I've also had the issue of the wierd cases for Goldeneye, and OHMSS (purchased at BestBuy).

A friend of mine had fingerprints all over his discs right after he opened them.

I have 2 sony models and the one copy of (From Russia) I tried wont play on either. One of the players is
Sony dvp-nc655p

the two players that won't play it
Zenith DVD 2201
Toshiba SD -3950

plays on
Pioneer DVD V-7400
duraband pdv - 705 (my daughter 80 dollar portable)

is anyone losing audio for a SPLIT second in "Live and Let Die"?? On Chapter 15 or was it 16 after James Bond reveals his entire stack was "Lovers cards", the transition to bed loses audio. Just wanted to know...

I just got From Russia to play on my cyberhome junk player. Does that mean I shouldnt bother to do an exchange at barnes. Will none of them work on my sony players? I won't get to watch it on our high end sony system.

i have only had problems with FRWIL I have loaded all of the other films with no problem on my players. thats why its strange to me, that only one film out of 20 and one disc out of 40 won't play.

i watched the movie on my pioneer, but I want a copy I can drop in any player and it be fine. i don't think that is asking to much.

sad thing is, FRWL is my favorite Bond Film...so for me its a little harder to swallow than if it was a later film

you'd think they have made sure it workedon all players. Sounds like an email to mgm is in order but if they hadnt got many complaints it may not be addressed. Do you know the best way to email them? My cyberhome player breaks down all the time. This isnt a good situation for me.

I checked and they have a place to send an email on their website which Im doing now. http://www.mgm.com/help.do

i don't have a customer service number (i know it is listed on this site somewhere) if anyone has a link please provide. I'm not sure that MGM has the best customer service, but Fox has replaced disc in the past...not sure who would do the duty here

I was wondering though if they need to do a new disk that is compatible with all players or if its just a batch of bad disks?

not sure, I'm going to try a diffrent best buy tommorow to exchange this at. someone over at HTF that they had two copies. one played on player A but the second copy would not play on player A.

so it seems some bad disc are out.

I posted this number on the first page of the thread for customer service.


1-888-223-2369

wow!

We wait *forever* for these sets to be remastered, repackaged and resold and this is the thanks we get.

No Thanks!

Christ, a couple (literally, like two) people get bad "FRWL" discs and people basically start in with the "James Bond raped my childhood!" insanity.

My "From Russia With Love" played flawlessly and looked phenomenal, as have all the ones I've watched so far ("Dr. No" through "Moonraker")

I can't wait to watch "For Your Eyes Only" through "Die Another Day".