my opinion of this whole issue is that i don't spend good money on Home Cinema equipment to be shafted by studios that don't check their final product properly and give us titles that have issues. I can't remember any titles off the top of my head that had to be replaced during the Laserdisc / DVD years. I'm an avid movie buff that loves all home video formats and really look into the titles that i'm buying to ensure that it's the best version there is.
I'm a fan of Arrow trust me because i love their output but QC really needs to be tighten but in all honesty they aren't the only ones to fluff their titles
Examples
Pirates of the Carribean : Curse of the Black Pearl - misframed scenes
Cliffhanger (UK) - reversed surround.channels
AVP- R (US) Unrated cut missing a few unrated scenes (compared to the unrated DVD version)
Gladiator - woeful transfer
The Beyond - Opening sequence colour timing completly wrong
Die Hard 2 (US) DTS-HR instead of MA on the disc on most players (MA doesn't flag up apparently)
Taken (all releases outside the US) no subtitles activate for the french speaking parts. They do on the US BD
Apocalypse Now (CAN) discs 1 and 2 were labelled incorrectly
Lawrence of Arabia (UK) as above
This is an ongoing list that i'm putting together
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