Iron Man (Blu-ray)

Iron Man Blu-ray Recalled Possibly Delayed

The forums are lit up this morning with news that the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'Iron Man' has been recalled. A few weeks back, some of those receiving review copies reported trouble playing the disc in their Blu-ray players. Apparently, there is an authoring problem with the disc, and distributors have been issued direction to send back all product.

According to those distributors, Paramount is doing everything possible to get enough replacement discs to retailers in time for its September 30th release date, but it may not be able to meet the demand. If Paramount can't get enough titles onto retail shelves, they may delay the title until October 7th.

Online retailers like Amazon are likely to ship first-come, first-serve, so make sure you have your pre-order in now if you haven't done so already.

I for one work at Blockbuster and took home a copy on Sunday night looking forward to checking it out, only to find the disc would not load at all in my PS3. Worse yet - after trying several other Blu-Ray discs, I found that NONE of them would work in my PS3 now, after having just watched three different blu-rays on Saturday with no problem at all. A co-worker of mine also was unable to view the blu-ray Iron Man, so I'm guessing some of the discs we received at work are the faulty ones. I for one will be waiting off on purchasing this title until the fix has been attended to (and I figure out what's wrong with my PS3, since it still plays regular DVDs!?)

Ironman plays perfectly on my Samsung 1200. (Updated my firmware in July).

Paramount did get all of its "Iron Man" BDs out on the designated date, including replacements for one initial batch of faulty discs, and all is right with the world.

John