The Bourne Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum Blu-ray 2012 Release problem

At Costco we picked up The Bourne Identity last week, popped it into our PS3 (which is our Blu-ray player) and watched for a bit then had freezing and skipping … on two different PS3’s it did the same thing, but not quite exactly the same … weird. Anyhow, the disc just didn’t work for us.

This was very frustrating. I found that the disc we had was different than ones I saw on websites. Both were “flipper” discs with Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other. The difference was in the package.

The actual Blu-ray case for the disc we had that freeze/skipped had this at the top: “BLU-RAY + DVD” … that’s it.

Web sites that sell the same movie show it as “BLU-RAY + DVD BOTH VERSIONS ON ONE DISC”

When we went back to Costco we looked at the ones that they had and some were like the first one we got, and others had the additional information about “one disc” … so it goes, that in the first place we didn’t know it wasn’t two discs, and there was no way of knowing it since it was the first time we bought any Bourne movie on Blu-ray.

So we didn’t just get The Bourne Identity then, we got the other two as well.

We get home and I see that The Bourne Ultimatum was “old style” … so then hubby went back with it another day and returned with the right “one disc” variety, but it was the wrong movie … he brought home The Bourne Supremacy, which we already had … of course. So back to the store, and they didn’t have any of The Bourne Ultimatum in that correct style. We ended up finding it at Best Buy for $14.99. A bad deal when we got them each for $9.99 at Costco. In any world though neither price is bad for a Blu-ray + Digital Copy. I think it’s devalued though because of the stupid flipper disc.

So the bottom line was this, the restyled case wording has flipper discs in it that work in the PS3 just fine.

Some of the discs in Costco were one way, and others the other way. Old 2010 pressings were repackaged with Digital Copy 2012 papers and given a nifty 2012 cardboard sleeve. The Costco ones were the Blu-ray case plastic wrapped, the code paper over that on the back then another layer of plastic wrap. That went into the cardboard sleeve.

The Best Buy version of The Bourne Ultimatum only had one plastic wrap on the Blu-ray case, and the digital copy paper was inside the case, and that case was inside the cardboard sleeve.

So they look alike from the sleeve view. They have different tops on the cases, but you have to slide the case out of the box sleeve in order to see that.

It’s odd, the last disc we got, with the Digital Copy paper being inside, then plastic wrapped, being the way it was from Best Buy, but the Costco discs had it as if they took old discs already packaged and slapped the new paper on and re-wrapped with plastic and inserted that into the sleeve.

The Best Buy one was like they did it different, which it was, but whatever … the point being all the discs with addional verbage on the top of the case had good flippers. The Blu-ray works.

So you have to be careful once you know about this. Never take a case at it’s word, there aren’t always DVD’s inside, maybe just a flipping flipper disc.

Thing being you never know until you open it maybe, like The Thing 2011, it says Blu-ray + DVD on it, is it? Yes, it is. Thank goodness. I’d have flipped if it was a flipper. We bought that longer ago, never opened it until recently.

I have one more example from Universal, all these movies being theirs, The Adjustment Bureau … we got that at Best Buy yesterday. It’s says Blu-ray + DVD … inside there are two discs, a DVD and a Blu-ray. Oh, and a nice surprise, a Digital Copy code that “may not be valid after 11/30/11” and I can verify it does indeed still work as of August 11, 2012. We bought the movie with no idea it had any digital copy inside. I bet it used to have a sleeve on it with such information but it was removed after the expiration date. So it was a nice surprise to find it and find that it worked. 🙂

I really hope Universal and everyone else, doesn’t actually make flipper discs anymore. I like the art on the front of the disc and the second disc also having art, being two separate entities in the box, not a flipper which makes it difficult. Say I have a blu-ray drive and he has a dvd drive. We can’t both watch at the same time. Just a little point. I’d rather have both discs, that’s the point, both discs stay in the Blu-ray case, and we get rid of the DVD sets we have. Hurray! So it’s only half such a way with the Bourne series. I wonder what The Bourne Legacy will market as when it comes out on disc …