Dawn of the Dead (1978) BD UPDATED

[Brent_Reid]

Initial pressings of Koch's European Cut disc had encoding issues which affected the image. A replacement programme is in place and the corrected disc has two slightly different variants. All useful details are in a Blu-ray.com thread, from this point onwards.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

I see the replacement disc info but I don't see information on what was wrong. Could you elaborate on what the problem was?

[Brent_Reid]

Hi james, I'm still waiting on my replacement disc from Koch. When I get it I'll report back here.

[Brent_Reid]

I finally got my replacement disc last week; will post again asap.

[Brent_Reid]

Ok, finally... Believe it or not, it's actually even more complicated than this; I've simplified it considerably!

The original widescreen European cut disc has minor compression issues which look like slightly excessive DNR (Caps-a-holic). Both sets' (4-BD and UHD/5-BD) discs were affected. Remastered replacements were issued and can be obtained by sending a photo of your receipt or screenshot of your order to zombi@kochmedia.com.
The remastered disc was issued solo in 2017 (ASIN B0756K695Y) and this is what you'll receive as a replacement.

There are two different permutations of the corrected discs, with minor label typography and matrix number variations. Original discs have the serial numbers 1018830 (4-BD set) and 1017750 (UHD/5-BD set). Both corrected discs have the same number: 1018830. There are only two sure ways to discern the corrected discs. The easiest is if it has a copyright date of 2017, but the first corrected disc is dated 2016, like all the faulty ones. The corrected discs have these matrix numbers around the data side's hub:
BVP 25052 1018830CD1R1/L0 01 A03 IFPZ 14
BVP 25053 1018830CD1R1/L1 01 A03 IFPZ 14

For extra clarity, the faulty discs had these matrix numbers:
BVP 22485 1018830CD1R1/L0 01 010MM IFPZ 13
BVP 22486 1018830CD1R0/L1 01 A01 IFPZ14

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Updated, thanks!

[Brent_Reid]

You're welcome! Now I've got plenty of others to catch up on, including Chaplin and Hitchcock...