Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Theatrical Versions) - April 6, 2010

[Q?]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

During what format?

war.

[Gremal]

Originally Posted by Monkey

AVS was almost as neutral as Microsoft was during the format.

To this day I never participate at AVS because of its behavior during HD rollout. It's almost unbelievable that a forum dedicated to A/V excellence could endorse the worse format and engage in a campaign to silence those who were just being honest about the advantages of blu-ray.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Becko

What's the difference between those 2 ? which one has better packing ? i guess the cheapest way to get the movies is at wal mart for $63.96

Originally the "sword edition" was $15 more expensive than the standard BR edition. The only difference was the inclusion of a tiny "sword" letter opener that looked like Aragorn's sword. Now, BB has raised the price of the standard edition to $10 higher than the sword edition and left the price of the sword edition alone.

If you look at the link in the post, you can see both packages.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Monkey

AVS was almost as neutral as Microsoft was during the format.

LOL. Hilarious and true.

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by Q!

war.

Thank you sir.

[ts0323]

After watching the rest of Fellowship, it's not really as bad as I originally thought. Yeah, the shire isn't great, but as the movie progresses the PQ gets better for some reason.

[BluLobsta]

UPS guy just delivered...windows are all taped and all breakables have been stowed (kinda sounds like a hurricane is a comin')

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Becko

i guess the cheapest way to get the movies is at wal mart for $63.96

It's only that price on their website. They do have free shipping to any walmart. It's still $69.99 in the stores.

[rltilley]

Originally Posted by deeman54

im going to get the Aragon sword and Gandolf staff in a few months. I would get legolas's little itty bitty swords but i don't think it would look right with the other collection. Even tho he's my favorite character i wont be supporting those letter openers lol. I wish i could find his bow and arrows some where

Why am I suddenly getting the urge to watch "The 40 Year Old Virgin" again?

[raygendreau]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

Yeah I didn't like it either, Denethor was a noble man, reflected by his noble sons, who were far better portrayed in the films than he was.

Ironic, don't you think? A noble man in an ignoble role played by John Noble.

[jw]

What does HDDVD and LOTR Trilogy have to do with each other?
Fact: LOTR was never released on HDDVD.....

Let try not to sway to off topic with this

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by rltilley

Why am I suddenly getting the urge to watch "The 40 Year Old Virgin" again?

Good question maybe because its life related in your case

[joenostalgia23]

Originally Posted by Bronze-Dragonrider

*facepalm* and I just spent $300 on a new PS3 because my old one died... looks like I have to start saving yet again. But thank you for your help, at least now I know what direction to head in.



However, I am confused on another front here - I made sure that the optical connection was selected on my PS3 settings and that everything was switched over to bitstream, and now LotR will not play ANY sound whatsoever. I remember when I first got King Kong on blu ray the same thing happened, and I was advised to switch to PCM which solved it. But this also reduced the surround effects on some other movies like The Dark Knight - when the Joker starts shooting up Harvey Dent's protection truck in the tunnel, there's a lovely effect of the sound of bullets circling all around you, which is completely lost in PCM.

I went through the settings again, and under video settings I can switch things to bitstream, but under audio settings, it won't let me deselect PCM at all which I hadn't noticed before. How am I to solve the problem of completely missing audio, if I'm supposed to be running bitstream with optical? Yet if I set it to PCM, some surround effects and bass is lost...


Sorry for hijacking this thread for technical advice, I know it's really not the proper area for it

The reason you were losing Surround Sound effects on PCM is because when the sound is output through PCM and its lossless, you only get stereo lossless. You should still set to Bitstream, but you should deselect all the lossless codecs like DTS-HD MA.
I guess you will need to buy a new receiver. Try to sell your current one on Ebay. There are some fairly cheap receivers that can handle lossless, and you don't need to completely replace your speakers, I'm sure they're quite fine. If your PS3 is the newer slimline one, you can choose whether you want PCM or Bitstream output. Just make sure your next receiver will handle Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD-MA.

I'd rather this thread be hijacked for technical advice than have to sift through pages and pages of arguing over the PQ.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by HDPlasma

Fixed. It works both ways

Not really, no.
The vitriol is coming from one side. It's only reasonable for people to get defensive when you call them blind and stupid.

I know some of you guys think it's funny to change somebody's quote, but that's not cool. That is some jackass behavior, I'm not laughing. There's nothing clever about putting words in someone's mouth, it's extremely rude. Grow up.

Originally Posted by radagast

That's not the way Denthor was portrayed in the books. He was a noble man whose mind was overthrown by looking into the palantir and seeing only what Sauron wanted him to see. He despaired of being able to stop Sauron's forces and on top of that lost his oldest son.

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Exactly. Denethor is the one part I hate the most on all 3 movies. It's not a huge thing but I really did not like how they made him, so very far from what he is in the books. Yes he is snobish a bit in his character in the books but he's never an @ss. In the movie they made him look like a _ _ _ hole

I was referring to the books, not the movie.
He's a jerk in both, Jackson didn't "mess up" that character at all. He cut his scenes down a little bit, (many of them are in the EE), but he is portrayed just as unflatteringly in both sources. There is nothing noble about having a total breakdown and watching your people burn because you saw your own doom in the palantir. He's mean to Pippin, dismissive of Faramir, openly hostile to Gandalf (and, by proxy, Aragorn), and he's wrapped up in personal pettiness at the worst possible time. None of that is "invented" for the movie.

[Riff Magnum]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

Hugo Weaving has been part of so many gigantic blockbusters in the last dozen years, it's ridiculous... remember, he was also Megatron.

I was wondering why they chose him for Elrond, since you know, he's not really "the fairest of them all." Oh yeah, the whole being a good actor thing.

[Mahatma]

Just received my copy of FoTR on BD today,and again find myself baffled about it's reported PQ.Sure:not reference quality,but I would give it a solid 4/5.Was pretty sharp on my TV (waaaay better than DVD).Didn't see any evidence of it being DNR to death either.Probably some,but not excessive.

Strange how we perceive quality in such differing ways.Audio was very good.Can understand why people raves about it

One question:I have a sony BDP-500 blue ray player,and uses the stereo outputs to my denon PMA 2000 for sound.Do I get HD sound,or is that solely directed through the HDMI?FoTR only has one sound-option,and it sure does sound sweet on my setup so personally would guess I'm getting the HD sound.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

I was wondering why they chose him for Elrond, since you know, he's not really "the fairest of them all." Oh yeah, the whole being a good actor thing.

Yeah, I had a little chuckle myself at the idea of an elf suffering from hair-loss; but he is an excellent actor.

[Nightblackraven]

Originally Posted by rltilley

Why am I suddenly getting the urge to watch "The 40 Year Old Virgin" again?

ROFL! Too funny and yes that movie did cross my mind after reading Deeman's post.

[easyrider]

Originally Posted by radagast

Do I hear an amen?

No, but I will give you a HELL YEAH!

[easyrider]

Finally released Down Under and I watched Fellowship last night. Reasonably happy with the PQ and I thought that the AQ was SPECTACULAR
To me worth the upgrade on AQ alone.