If it’s not one thing, then it’s another. That’s what some folks at Disney must be saying to themselves this week—and it all has to do with pirates, but only the Johnny Depp kind.
It’s been more than a couple of months since some viewers of the Blu-ray Disc rendition of “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’” began complaining about framing problems with the next-gen format version. But this week, as the third “Pirates” movie is being released on Blu-ray and standard DVD, the word from the Disney studio is that a frame fix and accompanying disc-exchange policy will like get underway “very soon.”
Some scenes on the original Blu-ray disc of the second pirates motion picture were portrayed with such glitches as actors’ heads cut off (by framing, not by other pirates), and similar occurrences (HD Notebook, Sept. 12, 2007).
But then a new snafu cropped up this week with the release of the third “Pirates” film on Dec. 4, although this one has a happy ending: Although the packaged Blu-ray content is labeled as being 1080i, that appears to have been a typo. The film is portrayed in 1080p (along with most of Disney’s other major Blu-ray titles), says High-Def Digest.
For the second “Pirates” movie originally released on Blu-ray last spring, Disney said in addition to a disc exchange procedure yet-to-be-announced for disgruntled customers, all future Blu-ray pressings of the second Pirate movie will incorporate the corrected framing.
