bob9000 already posted this news in the HD DVD and Blu-ray thread, but since I imagine a lot of people stay as far away from it as possible, I thought I'd re-post this in its own thread:

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In what's becoming an all-too-familiar refrain, consumers have discovered an apparent manufacturing glitch in some Blu-ray copies of Warner's newly-released 'Blade Runner' Collection.

As we've previously reported, Ridley Scott's sci-fi epic hit both high-def formats earlier this week in two landmark five-disc collections containing five cuts of the film, including the first-ever home video release of the film's fabled "workprint."

Unfortunately, some Blu-ray fans popping in the set's fifth disc (which is meant to contain the workprint) are instead finding a mislabeled duplicate of the first disc, containing the film's final cut.

Warner has yet to comment on the 'Blade Runner' snafu, but coming only a week after some Blu-ray editions of its 'Harry Potter: Years 1-5' giftset were found to include HD DVD editions of 'Goblet of Fire,' the studio would seem to have some explaining to do.

This is for the 5-disc edition, so I assume it may also impact the briefcase edition as well, since it contains the 5-disc edition case. So far I have not seen it reported that this glitch impacts the DVD or HD DVD versions of this release, so if you were planning on getting either of those you're probably safe.

Source: http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Warner/Technical_Glitches/Blade_Runner_Blu-ray_Suffers_Manufacturing_Glitch/1290

KM

Quoting Vega:

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Guess I'll have to check my HD DVD version when I get home tonight.

That wouldn't hurt, but it sounds like a Blu-ray only problem.  Considering HD DVDs and DVDs are pressed at different locations, it seems unlikely that you'd run into the same issues.

Quoting Mark Harrison:

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Quoting Vega:

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Guess I'll have to check my HD DVD version when I get home tonight.

That wouldn't hurt, but it sounds like a Blu-ray only problem.  Considering HD DVDs and DVDs are pressed at different locations, it seems unlikely that you'd run into the same issues.

I would imagine that HD DVD and Blu-ray's are pressed at different locations as well, but they seem to keep mixing them up.  It seems it's more of a packaging issue.  Like everything is actually pressed at different factories, but then they all get shipped to a common location for the final packaging and that's where the mix up happens.

Quoting 8ballMax:

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WB has some serious Quality Control issues . Heads need to start rolling.

No kidding. And I am absolutely hating their newer multi-disc digipak sets. There's almost always badly scratched discs (at least in my experience) in them even when they're intact in the holders!

If it's not the workprint version (I assume it's labeled as such), then it's bad.

From what I read, the real disc 5 has no Dolby TrueHD track, but the wrongly labelled version does. So if you find one of those you've got a dud unfortunately.

I ordered Harry Potter AND Blade Runner on BD, haven't got the heart to check them.

I don't have Blade Runner yet, but I can't believe that the menu wouldn't give some indication of which disc it should be regardless of what's printed on the disc.  I have no real idea, but I think it would be rather unusual for it to not be marked somehow.

Of course disc 1 also has 3 commentaries I believe which wouldn't be on disc 5.