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

[dcowboy7]

You shouldve told him you were working undercover for warner & now they will be fined $$, especially him, for putting it out early.

[HDMe]

I'm not bashing anyone in this thread, so please don't take it that way...

.. but I don't generally trust screen caps unless I personally know the person who made them. There are too many ways to take screen caps that are not of the same quality as what you'd see watching the movie yourself... and on top of that lots of people with agendas who will intentionally or unintentionally modify their caps to show what they want to show.

Also, lots of people will take still-frames and say how horrible something looks... but nobody watches a movie frame by frame. IF you did, you could find nastiness on individual film frames too.

[jwoodwar]

Originally Posted by HDMe

I'm not bashing anyone in this thread, so please don't take it that way...

.. but I don't generally trust screen caps unless I personally know the person who made them. There are too many ways to take screen caps that are not of the same quality as what you'd see watching the movie yourself... and on top of that lots of people with agendas who will intentionally or unintentionally modify their caps to show what they want to show.

Also, lots of people will take still-frames and say how horrible something looks... but nobody watches a movie frame by frame. IF you did, you could find nastiness on individual film frames too.

And also if your using a computer the screen shot can look different until you watch it on the tv. Like I am legend on this website I saw a screenshot and it looked bright and I bought the disc and it looked darker and more clear.

[gregmasciola]

Originally Posted by sharkcohen

It's TBS, it's expected

I had a feeling TBS would show the movies this way. They hate black bars. Part of me was expecting them to show it pan & scanned to 4x3 then stretch it.

[ClemsonGrad08]

Originally Posted by stevenbrewster

HEY EVERYONE, I JUST WENT TO BLOCKBUSTER AND THEY HAVE THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY ON BLU RAY FOR $69.99,. I THOUGHT THIS WASN'T GETTING RELEASED UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY. I ASKED THE CLERK HOW THEY GOT IT ALREADY AND THEY SAID IT'S BEEN OUT FOR A WHILE...LlOL

The guy there is an idiot. We got ours today and they are sitting in a box till Tuesday. BB doesn't exactly hire the brightest sometimes.

[sharkcohen]

Originally Posted by gregmasciola

I had a feeling TBS would show the movies this way. They hate black bars. Part of me was expecting them to show it pan & scanned to 4x3 then stretch it.

Turner Stretchovision

[sharkcohen]

Originally Posted by jwoodwar

And also if your using a computer the screen shot can look different until you watch it on the tv. Like I am legend on this website I saw a screenshot and it looked bright and I bought the disc and it looked darker and more clear.

That's why I view screencaps on a professionally calibrated HDTV.

[jwoodwar]

Originally Posted by sharkcohen

That's why I view screencaps on a professionally calibrated HDTV.

I think my tv is calibrated not to sure.

And what should the color be? But it looks super dark to me sometimes.

[Stinky-Dinkins]

There are certain things only a calibrator could do but if you haven't changed your settings at all there are definitely things you need to tweak (I'm surprised it looks too dark to you, most of them come torched.) Search AVS for your specific TV model and take not of some of the setting suggestions in that set's thread, or you could just use one of the many discs out there (Avia, DVE, etc.)

[jwoodwar]

Originally Posted by Stinky-Dinkins

There are certain things only a calibrator could do but if you haven't changed your settings at all there are definitely things you need to tweak (I'm surprised it looks too dark to you, most of them come torched.) Search AVS for your specific TV model and take not of some of the setting suggestions in that set's thread, or you could just use one of the many discs out there (Avia, DVE, etc.)

I used a disc and I did a setting but it looked horiable so I used a websites and toned it down a little to make it less bright

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by jwoodwar

I think my tv is calibrated not to sure.

And what should the color be? But it looks super dark to me sometimes.

Haha you would know if it was. It doesn't come calibrated so unless you did it then it's not.

[jwoodwar]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

Haha you would know if it was. It doesn't come calibrated so unless you did it then it's not.

I mean should the tv be really dark and should the brightness be up or down ans contrast and backlight. And color temp warm medium cool???

[gregmasciola]

Originally Posted by sharkcohen

That's why I view screencaps on a professionally calibrated HDTV.

Do you just have your computer hooked up to your TV? I've been wanting to try doing this, but haven't bothered to order a long enough monitor cable.

[Stinky-Dinkins]

The only people that would know are people with your specific set, settings are specific to a given set.

And if you're used to always watching torched sets (as they usually come from the store) then the "proper" settings will look much less bright and blown out, yes.... you should get used to it and a week or so (and then flipping back to torch mode will look nuts.)

Like I said, read over your set's thread in AVS to make sure some of your settings aren't drastically off. THose are just a baseline though, that's why you should use a disc like DVE to do final tweaks... things specific to your environment (typical room lighting when watching tv, etc) will influence what certain things should be set to.

And stay out of the service menu, just use the basic built in menus for now.

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by Stinky-Dinkins

The only people that would know are people with your specific set, settings are specific to a given set.

And if you're used to always watching torched sets (as they usually come from the store) then the "proper" settings will look much less bright and blown out, yes.... you should get used to it and a week or so (and then flipping back to torch mode will look nuts.)

Like I said, read over your set's thread in AVS to make sure some of your settings aren't drastically off. THose are just a baseline though, that's why you should use a disc like DVE to do final tweaks... things specific to your environment (typical room lighting when watching tv, etc) will influence what certain things should be set to.

And stay out of the service menu, just use the basic built in menus for now.

S-D gives the best advice...just go to your tv's thread and i'm sure they'll have settings posted there. Follow them and you'll be happy.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Branching is very bandwidth intensive.

One reason it was an issue with HD DVD.

Why would it be bandwidth intensive? If you look at the Amazon.com page for the LOTR release that used seamless branching to have both versions of each movie, it sounded like it was a very efficient use of disc space.

[sharkcohen]

Originally Posted by gregmasciola

Do you just have your computer hooked up to your TV? I've been wanting to try doing this, but haven't bothered to order a long enough monitor cable.

I have my Linux system hooked up to my 46" LCD and my Windows laptop hooked up to my 52" LCD, both DVI to HDMI.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by radagast

Why would it be bandwidth intensive? If you look at the Amazon.com page for the LOTR release that used seamless branching to have both versions of each movie, it sounded like it was a very efficient use of disc space.

For Blu-ray, scenes actually overlap in the bitstream. So you have 2 video streams, and whatever auido streams running at the same time.

[smail.nathan]

got my copy of LOTR from ups today. Ordered it last month from wbshop. They sure came through this time. Won't have time to pop it in until Sunday unfortunately. Sure will be interesting to check it out.

[billzfan]

Who has Lord of the Rings the cheapest right now?