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

[Petri Teittinen]

I suppose most people have not realized how accommodating our brains are when it comes to colour, especially the colour white. Grab a white piece of paper, look at it and your brain tells you it's white. And yet the lighting in your room tints the white of the paper depending on the color temperature of the light source.

It's quite hard to tell what's properly (and by proper I refer to D65) white without a reference point. The now-infamous screenshot comparison of white vs. green snow is a perfect example of this. I've had access to the Extended Blu-rays (not pirated ones) for a while now and can confirm the pirated screencaps of FOTR are quite close to what the Blu-ray looks like.

Despite the greenish tint, when you're viewing the movie without any external reference points it looks fine: your brain accepts the image you're watching as the reference point and adjusts your perception of color accordingly. I'm not saying green snow appears pure white, but the tint does not look out of place without a reference point telling you otherwise.

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by Andrewtst

LOTR1 - The Fellowship of the Ring
http://www.fileserve.com/file/sjqppC3/LOTR-1-sample.mkv

I just watched this sample....INCREDIBLE.

[The Apocalypse]

16 days to go before it's released here in the UK. Can't wait....

[Funkyfish]

Actual Extended Edition Trilogy Blu-ray screen caps (not.x264 encodes)

[Show spoiler]

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by Funkyfish

Actual Extended Edition Trilogy Blu-ray screen caps (not.x264 encodes)

...thanks a lot!

[Kryptonic]

Those look...perfect.

[Funkyfish]

Here's a few more from the actual BD's

[Show spoiler]

Sean Astin does look as green as Shrek in that second cap, but overall the color changes are not a bad as we feared.

[Jumpman]

Well, the Sean Astin cap is from the scene at Minas Morgul, which had a heavy green tint to it because of the design of Minas Morgul.

[Funkyfish]

That’s good then, thanks for putting that into context

[Andrewtst]

After testing the 3 sample video rip form LOTR-EE BD. I found out:

• LOTR 1 - The Fellowship of the Ring is more green.
• LOTR 2 - The Two Towers is more blue.
• LOTR 3 - The Return of the King is more red.

This is exact follow the previous DVD-EE 1st release box-set color.

Sample Video Link:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/blu-ray-mo...ml#post4831379

Overall it looks nice and appealing to me. Love it

[Jumpman]

That video sample of Fellowship Extended is lights out! No worries.

[vargo]

For someone who has the actual disc, can you look at The Two Towers around 45 mins?

When I looked at the rip I noticed very amateurish use of temporal denoise, there is smearing and blurring everywhere. I hope it is just on the encode and not the actual disc. Im seeing it everywhere there is a lot of smoke/grain.

Edit - Never mind, I checked my Theatrical Bluray (actual disc) and it is there too. Must be deliberate. Never noticed it before. Really bad on the swamp scene.

[Petri Teittinen]

Originally Posted by vargo

For someone who has the actual disc, can you look at The Two Towers around 45 mins? When I looked at the rip I noticed very amateurish use of temporal denoise, there is smearing and blurring everywhere. I hope it is just on the encode and not the actual disc. Im seeing it everywhere there is a lot of smoke/grain.

If you are referring to the wide shot starting at 45:01 of Frodo, Sam and Gollum crossing the swamp... it looks fine on disc. Sounds like the rip has been rushed. Edit - Seems like the EE version is doing a better job of encoding than TE. Or it could be a matter of VC-1 versus AVC.

[vargo]

Originally Posted by Petri Teittinen

If you are referring to the wide shot starting at 45:01 of Frodo, Sam and Gollum crossing the swamp... it looks fine on disc. Sounds like the rip has been rushed. Edit - Seems like the EE version is doing a better job of encoding than TE. Or it could be a matter of VC-1 versus AVC.

Yes, im referring to the swamp scene, noticeable blurring/ghosting/double-images. That's good to hear.

[egan311]

Originally Posted by Andrewtst

After testing the 3 sample video rip form LOTR-EE BD. I found out:

• LOTR 1 - The Fellowship of the Ring is more green.
• LOTR 2 - The Two Towers is more blue.
• LOTR 3 - The Return of the King is more red.

This is exact follow the previous DVD-EE 1st release box-set color.

Overall it looks nice and appealing to me. Love it

That's incorrect. Two Towers was red. Return of the King was blue.

[Andrewtst]

Originally Posted by egan311

That's incorrect. Two Towers was red. Return of the King was blue.

Is it? Haha! My mistake, ops!

Anyway, the EE rip seems promising, never regret pre-ordered the BD.

[Todd Smith]

Originally Posted by Petri Teittinen

The now-infamous screenshot comparison of white vs. green snow is a perfect example of this. I've had access to the Extended Blu-rays (not pirated ones) for a while now and can confirm the pirated screencaps of FOTR are quite close to what the Blu-ray looks like.

Bummer Thanks for the confirmation though.

On a more positive note, how is the audio Petri (or anyone else)? There should be no issues here and cant wait to hear these tracks! Is it 6.1 discrete or matrix?

Thanks

[mredman]

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

Those look...perfect.

i agree this is reference quality and some people complain abou this

[Lope de Aguirre]

Originally Posted by Andrewtst

After testing the 3 sample video rip form LOTR-EE BD. I found out:

• LOTR 1 - The Fellowship of the Ring is more green.
• LOTR 2 - The Two Towers is more blue.
• LOTR 3 - The Return of the King is more red.

This is exact follow the previous DVD-EE 1st release box-set color.

Sample Video Link:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/blu-ray-mo...ml#post4831379

Overall it looks nice and appealing to me. Love it

Yeah I believe the SEE DVD sets had similar colours.
Of course I can be mistaken but the user which posted the comparison (DVD vs. BD snow) wrote "DVD vs. EE BD".
So from the beginning I wasn't sure if he understood that he should compare the EE releases and not the theatrical DVD to the EE Blu-Ray...

[Todd Smith]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

Yeah I believe the SEE DVD sets had similar colours.
Of course I can be mistaken but the user which posted the comparison (DVD vs. BD snow) wrote "DVD vs. EE BD".
So from the beginning I wasn't sure if he understood that he should compare the EE releases and not the theatrical DVD to the EE Blu-Ray...

The actual picture says extended dvd vs extended blu ray though so I assume both are the extended versions, but it would be good to have confirmation.