Best Buy cash register clerk: “Every customer today has been buying that dvd”
You should have been paying more attention to the dvd instead of the steelcase or whatever it was, miafka. I’ve been confused for weeks about what to get, and finally a week ago when I came here to this thread and also physically went to Best Buy and looked at their circular, then I came to the conclusion that something was terribly wrong.
Disney isn’t the only company doing this sort of stuff. The IceAge3 offerings were confusing as well, the one disk option there was just terrible, with only film, commentary, and a Purina Cat Chow commercial (I Am Not Lying). And you could buy 2 dvd’s wrapped in a 2 case set, featuring a Scrat special dvd also, and then a multi-disc blu-ray thingee, similar to Up, except for the overall quality…hee hee.
Back to UP: if you go back to page 4 of this thread and look at the Big Pictures that eerik provided of the actual dvd options, you will see the truth about the 2-dvd ‘deluxe’ edition, it’s not very deluxe at all. I wish they would just include that extra dvd and not even add it to the advertised total # available, it’s purposefully confusing, a marketing ploy, that I first saw with the ‘3’ disk Wall-E special. I only bought the 1 disk Ratatouille dvd, didn’t know there was more…
There are indeed 3 Up options: regular dvd with the film and No commentary, the cloud short, the new Dug featurette and No other features, then the ‘2’ disk ‘special’(which miakfa describes above), and finally the ‘4’ disk blu-ray special, with the ‘deluxe’ dvd, plus a blu-ray version of this ‘deluxe’ dvd, and then finally a blu-ray exclusive extras disk. I didn’t bother to mention the final disk, since it’s not very important. Here is a repeat of the linked website:
dvdactive.com/news/releases/up.html
Edit: rented the Up regular dvd for $1, it had No menu, just movie, previews, and an advertisement starring John Ratzenberger to buy the deluxe dvd (I Am Not Lying). No special features, nothing. But the regular dvd in the store does indeed have Partly Cloudy and Dug’s Special Mission.
Btw: I bought the ‘4’ set for $23.99 at Best Buy. I will try to rent a blu-ray player at some sort of rent center to view the extras I can’t see right now. For this price it seemed to be the best deal, and I will just accumulate blu-ray only disks until the day I rent or buy one. I’m going to go home now and verify the features.
We aren’t the only ones that have been squawking since August 10th. Maybe these companies are hoping that blu-ray demand will turn consumers off to regular dvd rental disks, which cost them a great deal of money. Then when everyone has blu-ray in a few years, they will again try to foist yet another format on us.
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Have to wait until I get home! D: (That’s over 8 hours from now! Grrr… Dx