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

[returnofthemack]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

Woah there spunky... take a deep breath and count to ten.

I wasn't laughing AT YOU. I was laughing at the scenario you presented. So, don't take it so personally.

As for showing you an option for the boxset? I haven't checked recently. However, last I heard, the word on these forums is that Costco had the boxset for $49.99 or $59.99 as regular price for many months. And, we also got word that Best Buy was beginning to price-match Costco in certain territories. So, it is there if one is to take the initiative to seek out a deal.

you were just laughing at the senario i presented? what senario was that? you present me with your price of 50 or 60 dollars at costco. cost of costco membership = $55 dollars 55+49=104 55+59=114. or i should just hope that best buy price matches costco. good idea im going to head off to best buy and hope that they do that. if they dont im going to come back and ask for another theory on how i can get this set for 50 or 60.

my "senario" for buying the individual releases isnt funny.

[ry35an]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

you were just laughing at the senario i presented? what senario was that? you present me with your price of 50 or 60 dollars at costco. cost of costco membership = $55 dollars 55+49=104 55+59=114. or i should just hope that best buy price matches costco. good idea im going to head off to best buy and hope that they do that. if they dont im going to come back and ask for another theory on how i can get this set for 50 or 60.

my "senario" for buying the individual releases isnt funny.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

you were just laughing at the senario i presented? what senario was that? you present me with your price of 50 or 60 dollars at costco. cost of costco membership = $55 dollars 55+49=104 55+59=114. or i should just hope that best buy price matches costco. good idea im going to head off to best buy and hope that they do that. if they dont im going to come back and ask for another theory on how i can get this set for 50 or 60.

my "senario" for buying the individual releases isnt funny.

I was laughing at the scenario that so many people just see a price listed in one place and take that at face value for all sources. People have been b!tching and complaining about a pricetag higher than $70 since forever while there have almost always been options to spend much less.

Here's an idea... why don't you take responsibility for your own desires and put the legwork in by doing your own research? I already bought mine for $62 within the first month of it being available. I did my due diligence to the extent that I was content with my purchase.

If you want to spend more money in the long run for these, by all means go ahead. At no point did I criticize anyone for opting to choose the route of the individual releases. I just wanted to get the knowledge out there that they can be had for less money. I really don't care what you do regarding your purchase. I was only trying to help inspire more economical shopping.

[returnofthemack]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

I was laughing at the scenario that so many people just see a price listed in one place and take that at face value for all sources. People have been b!tching and complaining about a pricetag higher than $70 since forever while there have almost always been options to spend much less.

Here's an idea... why don't you take responsibility for your own desires and put the legwork in by doing your own research? I already bought mine for $62 within the first month of it being available. I did my due diligence to the extent that I was content with my purchase.

If you want to spend more money in the long run for these, by all means go ahead. At no point did I criticize anyone for opting to choose the route of the individual releases. I just wanted to get the knowledge out there that they can be had for less money. I really don't care what you do regarding your purchase. I was only trying to help inspire more economical shopping.

here are my options for buying lord of the rings on blu ray

1. buy the individual releases for around 25 dollars one at a time over the course of a few months

2. never buy the lotr box set bc i dont have 70+ to spend at one time on a luxury item.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

here are my options for buying lord of the rings on blu ray

1. buy the individual releases for around 25 dollars one at a time over the course of a few months

2. never buy the lotr box set bc i dont have 70+ to spend at one time on a luxury item.

There is a 3rd option that you could consider.

3. Set aside $20 each month for a few months to save some money on the purchase in the long run by buying the boxset.

[Edword]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

There is a 3rd option that you could consider.

3. Set aside $20 each month for a few months to save some money on the purchase in the long run by buying the boxset.

And by then there's a chance the box set could be on sale for even cheaper.

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

Judging by the back covers that are up on DVDEmpire.com, these look like slipcovers.

[returnofthemack]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

There is a 3rd option that you could consider.

3. Set aside $20 each month for a few months to save some money on the purchase in the long run by buying the boxset.

thanks for the great idea! how about by the time 4 months pass and i have the 80 dollars there will be somthing more important for me to spend my 80 dollars on and i would be right back where i started. it will never be easy for me to spend that much on a luxury item. so i will buy the individual releases. thank you very much.

[Lope de Aguirre]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

thanks for the great idea! how about by the time 4 months pass and i have the 80 dollars there will be somthing more important for me to spend my 80 dollars on

Sounds like another + for the 3. option to me.

[mrpink134]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

thanks for the great idea! how about by the time 4 months pass and i have the 80 dollars there will be somthing more important for me to spend my 80 dollars on and i would be right back where i started. it will never be easy for me to spend that much on a luxury item. so i will buy the individual releases. thank you very much.

LOL looks like you don't want the movies bad enough.

[returnofthemack]

i sure dont! i hate these movies and i only want to buy them to fufill my ocd

[mrpink134]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

i sure dont! i hate these movies and i only want to buy them to fufill my ocd

Sell you DVD's thats what I did.

[Agent Bond]

$70 for a 15 disc set. If that isn't worth it, I don't know what is.

[nycomet]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

$70 for a 15 disc set. If that isn't worth it, I don't know what is.

How about $35 for a 15 disc set.

Most of the disc are oldray DVDs anyway.

[Booker Dewitt]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

$70 for a 15 disc set. If that isn't worth it, I don't know what is.

Doesn't really sound so swell if you already have nine of those discs.

And boy did this thread get classy all the sudden.

[thegoat]

Originally Posted by aimforsilence

Whats with all the hate in this fourm lately? Anyway, still waiting some snaps of the individual sets. Hope they look nice. If so then next year i'll do the pointless thing and swap my boxset to the individual releases... because i guess i like waisting money on stuff i already own...

That's why we're all on this forum.

I sold my box set, even though I just bought it recently. It was a lot of money to spend at once, and I didn't care for the packaging. I broke even, apart from some of the shipping costs (thinking of it as a rental, as I really wanted to see how they looked in HD - spectacular!).

The LOTR box looked nice on the shelf, but it had that awkward flap that made getting individual films out a pain. And the faces artwork on the cases was pretty bland, especially compared to the DVD sets. The new covers looks great. My Fellowship DVD is consistently freezing at ~41 minutes, so that one needs replacement. The others I'll get eventually, when I feel like wasting some money of own.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

thanks for the great idea! how about by the time 4 months pass and i have the 80 dollars there will be somthing more important for me to spend my 80 dollars on and i would be right back where i started. it will never be easy for me to spend that much on a luxury item. so i will buy the individual releases. thank you very much.

Seriously dude... lose the damn attitude. You are making a mockery of yourself by keeping up this "he hurt my feelings with internet words that I misinterpreted as an insult and blew way out of proportion" farce.

If you don't want them bad enough to put a few dollars aside in order to save a few dollars, maybe you shouldn't be indulging in the Blu-ray hobby in the first place. You are making it sound more and more like your budget doesn't allow for it anyways if you literally have no disposable income at any given time.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you are content with your purchase (or lack thereof). You have proven yourself to be one of two people I've encountered over my 5 years as a member here that has deserved to be put on my ignore list. Farewell forever.

[nateo200]

Very happy with the trilogy even though I only bought the first two in the theatrical cut Definitetly will buy LOTR: Return of the King in the Extended Edition. But I got the first two for $13.99 together I'm embarrassed to admit I never got the chance to see LOTR on DVD BUT I love the Blu-rays already and they have a special place next to my AV Receiver and Blu-ray player as well as on my computer .

Also the bickering about the 2 discs for one movies may be over but let me just say that in my 10+ years of encoding movies a 50GB Blu-ray disc is a GOD SENT!!!! You people have no idea how much space that is and how efficient the H.264 codec can be if you know what you are doing when encoding. Their are some AMAZING looking Blu-ray discs out there with a bit rate as low at 14.5mbps as the average and I won't even mention them, go take a look on Blu-rayStats.com :P. Even MPEG-2 has room to breath on a BD50 disc...although I wouldn't dream of using MPEG-2 in this day and age :O

Additionally with lossless audio codecs you can provide a ton more room for the video, Dolby TrueHD IMO is a better codec than DTS-MA when it comes to keep the size down, if there is a super quiet scene the TrueHD track can stay as low as the core which could be as low as 192kbps versus DTS-MA only being able to stay as low as its much larger core....I only mention this because Akira had a crazy monstrous sized 25gig or something crazy like that 192khz TrueHD track and the video still looked GREAT! (I know its animation but the point is still valid). Overall if the studio realized that the movie needed more room to breath they could have done what Akira did and used a TrueHD track with a minuscule sized 192khz core to save space...(In fact I've even encoded a video with a TrueHD track where the core was 128kbps!)

[CinemaScope]

Five discs per set is a bit daft. It's about time they used all the making of stuff to make one definitive three hour documentury. But just wait a bit, it will be $15 a set before too long.

[MacEachaidh]

Have you watched the extras, CinemaScope? The fifth disc for each film is the (fairly exhaustive) Laurent Bouzerau documentary that was originally released with the branched DVD sets of LotR that included both versions of each film — incidentally, the same set where the artwork on the new individual releases also debuted.

It's a bit annoying that they've stuck with the DVDs for the extras on the Blu-ray releases — especially since the BDs are region-free but the DVDs aren't. But so be it, I guess. I wonder which of these extras will make it into the inevitable Complete Middle Earth set once the Hobbit films are complete — and how many discs that set will have?!