Blu-ray's Pirates of the Caribbean release has framing issues

Blu-ray is starting to look like the Bad News Bears: analysts predicting death, deserting studios and now, one of Blu-ray's biggest releases, Pirates of the Caribbean , exhibiting terrible framing issues. It's important to note that the picture quality is intact but heads are being cut off -- and not by swashbuckling pirates. From the provided pics, the film is focused 5% lower than the standard DVD release. This shift therefore causes a loss of the top 5% of the screen and Orlando Bloom's head. There isn't any official response from Disney (we're working on that) just yet, but wow, Disney is going to have some mad Blu-ray owners on its white-gloved hands. In addition, we all know how fanatical first adopters get.

More pics after the jump

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2007 2:39AM]

@Nigel

The problem is not for the whole movie - only for 9 minutes.

However Fox had to recall Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Laserdiscs where 7 seconds were missing - so Disney will definitely have to issue a recall this time. This is worse that 'The Fifth Element' incident!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2007 8:31PM]

Also, it seems more like it is framed 12% lower - not 5% lower ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 8th 2007 2:58PM]

I'm a HD DVD person myself, but this is a Disney transfer problem, not a format problem (It is however limited to the Blu Ray transfer).

Similar happened with Back to the Future when those were released on DVD & they had to re-issue those. Disney ought to just accept their error & re-issue a correctly framed disc.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 8th 2007 10:36AM]

Pablo, You sound like Baghdad Bob.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 4:36PM]

The article title should be changed to "disney screws up blu-ray release."

Less misleading that way.