The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Edition) (2001-2003)

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

Thank god these films will be spread across two discs! I was really worried for a bit that WB would try and cram these on one. Hopefully, this will result in wonderful quality. I was, for the most part, happy with the Theatrical video quality, but there were definitely areas that needed improvement. Hopefully these will be rectified here.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Cook

I do like that packaging, though. Its my precious and i wants it now!

[DaViD Boulet]

Originally Posted by Aragorn84

Thank god these films will be spread across two discs! I was really worried for a bit that WB would try and cram these on one. Hopefully, this will result in wonderful quality. I was, for the most part, happy with the Theatrical video quality, but there were definitely areas that needed improvement. Hopefully these will be rectified here.

the PQ issues of the theatrical BDs have nothing to do with compression or disc authoring... they are souce-material related and reflect the image quality of the digital intermediates (and filtering choices made prior to compression... there was some debate about some noise reduction done in advance of AVC compression).

If the EE versions can be transparently compressed to fit on a single disc each, then it's not an issue. And if they can't, then they should be put on two discs. The folks who are calling the shots on that decision will make the right decision based on the real-world results of compression AB comparisons. But whichever way the films get authored, the source-material problems will no-doubt be blamed on poor compression/authoring.

[Cook]

Originally Posted by frogmort

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

the PQ issues of the theatrical BDs have nothing to do with compression or disc authoring... they are souce-material related and reflect the image quality of the digital intermediates (and filtering choices made prior to compression... there was some debate about some noise reduction done in advance of AVC compression).

If the EE versions can be transparently compressed to fit on a single disc each, then it's not an issue. And if they can't, then they should be put on two discs. The folks who are calling the shots on that decision will make the right decision based on the real-world results of compression AB comparisons. But whichever way the films get authored, the source-material problems will no-doubt be blamed on poor compression/authoring.

I fully understand that. My issues with the PQ have nothing to do with the source material. I'm perfectly fine with FotR looking a tad soft, etc. There were just some scenes here and there where WB obviously applied some additional DNR (inside Bag End, for instance). I don't know if having more room for these films will encourage them be less DNR-trigger happy (probably not, they're not inter-related). Regardless, I believe these films would have suffered from compression issues on one disc, so I'm happy they're split up.

[Sith]

I need to sell my original trilogy and just bite the bullet.

I f'in hate box set double dipping!!!

[Todd Smith]

Originally Posted by yojoeski

The dvd's are in 5.1 and since these are basically upconverts, then it stands to reason they'll only be 5.1 and will be split over 2 discs. To answer it, yes it is confirmed they're split.

As its been mentioned, the dvds are 6.1 DTS-ES discrete.....

[annayya]

Am I reading this right

Amazon already has over 850 reviews of which over 600 reviews were written since the pre-orders started about a week ago.
http://www.amazon.com/Rings-Trilogy-.../dp/B0026L7H20

Assuming there were ten times as many sales ... imagine how much money Warner Brothers made already with that price tag and here I am waiting for the price to go down to $75

lol, maybe I should just get it assuming the quality of the Blu-ray will be nothing less than perfect looking at all the money they are making and the crazy demand for it. They better not disappoint us this time and release it ASAP in summer ... I can't wait till Semtember or December.

Is it the highest pre-ordered Blu-ray set ever on Amazon yet ?

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by annayya

Am I reading this right

Amazon already has over 850 reviews of which over 600 reviews were written since the pre-orders started about a week ago.
http://www.amazon.com/Rings-Trilogy-.../dp/B0026L7H20

Assuming there were ten times as many sales ... imagine how much money Warner Brothers made already with that price tag and here I am waiting for the price to go down to $75

lol, maybe I should just get it assuming the quality of the Blu-ray will be nothing less than perfect looking at all the money they are making and the crazy demand for it. They better not disappoint us this time and release it ASAP in summer ... I can't wait till Semtember or December.

Is it the highest pre-ordered Blu-ray set ever on Amazon yet ?

I would think that Star Wars probably has it beat, but I'm not sure.
Star Wars has never been released on blu-ray, and it also has a release date!

[joenostalgia23]

Originally Posted by frogmort

I would think that Star Wars probably has it beat, but I'm not sure.
Star Wars has never been released on blu-ray, and it also has a release date!

Not to mention the fact that SW 6 film set is so close in price to LOTR's 3 film set. I'm sure the combined sales of both LOTR sets would rival the SW films, though(especially since thousands aren't going to get SW without the original cuts whereas LOTR have the extended cuts fanboys have been screaming for for ages).

[riverbelow]

I have 2 questions...

a ) Will it be region free?

b ) If i purchase the amazon preorder, the price is fixed from then?? even if it were to go up until it ships?

[Bucky]

why don't they divide the films over three discs? i wouldnt want the quality to be limited even a little bit but cramming the films onto two discs.

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by Bucky

why don't they divide the films over three discs? i wouldnt want the quality to be limited even a little bit but cramming the films onto two discs.

With that rationale,and demand for a 4K scan,that could be stretched way past the point of ridicilousGuess you're being ironic here

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

This. If the films are not on one disc each, I'll be very disappointed.

Me too. Blu-ray discs hold a lot of data so they need to take advantage of that. I didnt mind the flip with the DVD EE set but I dont expect to have to do that with blu-rays.

[Bucky]

i would personally prefer if they did something similar to toy story 3 where they had the film by itself on one disc with only the primary audio and then on another disc is the features and the film with the commentaries.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by TOPDAWG

Not true Jackson said the TE are the director cuts as far as he sees it. I also think we'll have new version in the future as he said he wanted to fix some of the CG of gollum in the first movie as it did not match the other moves.

Maybe he can fix a few other things as well, like a certain scene in ROTK.

I hope he doesn't turn into George Lucas.

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

You seriously think Jackson is going to let it go that Gollum in FOTR looks nothing like Gollum in the resulting films?

Come on, man - you know they're going to fix that. Buy the EE's now, because Jackson is indeed going to go Lucas on the films for the UE's.

Great minds think alike.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by nabokovfan87

I don't remember now, but STILL it doesn't have everything from the books, so it isn't the "True/Definitive Version" in my opinion.

Shortly after the movies came out there was an article on the web about why LOTR would have to be remade someday, which goes along nicely with what you say.

Originally Posted by lightyear8

You will NEVER have a set that has everything from the books. These films are adaptations and as such Jackson and his team made creative decisions about what would be the best way to present these stories in the cinematic medium. Stick to the books if that's what you are looking for.

Or the BBC radio adaptation, which is MUCH closer to the books.

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by GuruAskew

It's been reported that even though the EE's will be housed on single discs there will be a "choose your own intermission" feature included on the disc. You can activate this cutting-edge feature by pressing the pause button at any point in any of the 3 movies and have as many intermissions as you'd like.

Cute...

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Talal86

and longer doesn't always mean better..

Some women would disagree.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by motorheadache95

See, I disagree on this point. The Extended Cuts are too long (particularly RotK) to watch continuously from beginning to end. I actually LIKE having the movies split on 2 discs, because it creates an intermission point for you to take a break.

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

Same, I'm not anal about A/V quality at all really beyond preferring HD to SD.

At the same time, I don't mind getting up to change discs. I'd most likely have to pee once in the middle of these long EEs anyway (don't think I've ever got through any of them without getting up at least once--even the theatricals in theater were tough!).

So I'm fine if it's on two discs for A/V quality reasons as well.

If someone would make a multi-disc BD player, that wouldn't be a problem.