As reported in Digitalbits yesterday Quote "we've got a follow-up today on Paramount's Jack Ryan Collection HD-DVD box set. As we reported the other day, the set is supposed to include a number of special features (as originally announced and labeled on the actual packaging) that are simply not on the discs. It's left a lot of people wondering what happened. We have yet to hear back officially from the studio, however a number of DVD retailers have gotten a recall notice from the studio (a few were kind enough to forward it to us). Here's the text:

"Please be advised that there are typographical errors on the packaging for the Jack Ryan Special Collector's Edition HD-DVD. The packaging inadvertently notes special features that are not on the HD-DVD.

As a result, this product is being recalled and street date is being delayed. We ask that you do not sell or rent this product to consumers and that you stop shipments to additional destinations. A Paramount Home Entertainment Representative will contact you with an RA number to facilitate sending the product back to Paramount Home Entertainment's manufacturing facility. Returned product should include any unit previously shipped to retailers or other destinations as well as your on-hand inventory. We will provide further information on the availability of new product shortly."

The comment about "typographical errors on the packaging" seems to indicate that the studio feels that it's the packaging that's the oversight, as opposed to the missing features on the discs. We're hoping that the studio actually plans to remaster the discs with the missing features, but we'll see. If I were a betting man, I'd probably bet that we'll ultimately just get the same bare-bones discs with corrected labels. So hope for the best, prepare for the worst... and with any luck the studio will get back to us with some kind of official word."

Quoting mdnitoil:

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The Digital Bits has become my site of last resort as opposed to one of the first places I stop.

Yeah, same here. Although for me it's not so much the bias itself, but rather the way he communicates his bias. I still roll my eyes about his "greedy little bastards" bit when the Paramount news broke.

If he had simply conducted himself with more professionalism I wouldn't have lost so much respect for him. As it is, he's no better than any of the thousands of foaming-at-the-mouth bloggers out there.

KM