http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/ Engadget Comments for Lord of the Rings Trilogy headed to Blu-ray? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
And I totally can. I just recently did the whole extended thing in one sitting and ya know what? It really just felt like one long movie... not like 11 hours worth of movie. Also, it was awesome and I'd do it again in HD the day they come out!]]>May 28th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
another benefit of digital downloads.. it doesn't matter how big the movie is..there are no limitations in terms of space.]]>May 28th 2008 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 29th 2008 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
Can't wait!]]>May 28th 2008 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
Do you hear that Warner!?!]]>May 28th 2008 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/When companies get their act together and start releasing movies of this calibur on Blu-Ray, you will start to see better Blu-Ray hardware and software sales!
This is honestly the 1 set I want upgraded to Blu-Ray more than any other but they better not mess around releasing different editions of it!
I'm patiently waiting for Gladiator news...]]>May 28th 2008 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/Spiza
if you look at transformers, it was 144 minutes with extras on another disc (HD DVD guys correct me on any details since I don't own this disc).
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The bit to remember here is that neither DL 30gb HD DVD disc in the Transformers release was full.

For all that ignorant BS about how there wasn't enough space to fit a Dolby True HD audio track the truth is that there was 5gb+ left empty on the main feature disc spare = plenty of room for a True HD track.

Some people just don't understand or refuse to accept that the studio decided it was pointless.

There are always a handful of movies that are so out-sized that they will present problems - if uncompressed audio is your determined choice.
Personally I think it's a really stupid bloated waste brought on by Blu-ray as an ill thought out means to compete with Dolby True HD.

I guess it beats their mandated Dolby Digital audio standard.

Still, when a number of PS3/Blu-ray fanboys have yet to realise the difference between Dolby Digital & Dolby Digital plus that's the kind of nonsense that you get.

There would be no discernable difference to your ears with a DD+ audio track
(according to no less an authority than Dolby themselves.......who had no need to risk their reputation - or that of Dolby True HD - by saying DD+ was 'transparent' to the master, if not completely & to the nth degree loss-less).

Most people claiming to hear a difference are merely talking about adjusting volume settings between one movie and another, not a genuine difference in audio quality.
One movie being slightly louder than another is not an indicator of audio quality.

Check this if you haven't already - Dolby could easily just have said 'quality close to' or 'quality very near to', they didn't they actually said publicly 'transparent'.

http://cdn.libsyn.com/hdtvpodcast/HDTV-2007-11-02.mp3

24 minutes in.

Dolby say that, whilst DolbyTrue HD is bit-for-bit identical to the PCM master, DD+ should sound 'transparent to the original'
(eg. identical to our ears).

They said that the Transformers DD+ is soundtrack was possibly the best sounding high def disc at the time (which did include numerous Dolby True HD & uncompressed audio tracks).

But personally I'm with Sean T. on this one.
I have had all the extended editions on DVD for ages now and I have never bothered to sit through the almost 4 hrs - 4hrs+ or so it would take to see them. largely I suppose because it's a hell of a lot of time to see something I've really seen already.

Good grief, those movies were good but they weren't that great.

I'll maybe keep an eye out for the encodes when they come.......but, they better be good cos there's already some excellent HD TV captures out there.
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2. That still leaves 30-35Gb for the movie, or possibly 25-30Gb for the movie and 5gb for some PIP if that's what they wanted.

3. Your continued defensive whining about DD+ just shows you're hypersensitive about the lack of space on HD DVD for all of the above.

4. Its no wonder you must dismiss of the movies and the extended editions - so you can continue to pretend that all the extra space on Blu Ray isn't good for anything.

5. Grow up baby your precious format lost.
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You're a blinkered moron who refuses to accept the facts of the matter and drones on about how they are merely 'defensive whining'.

It's simply a fact that Blu-ray's additional capacity has no serious practical application - excepting allowing a certain CE corp to continue to push it's ancient MPEG2 codec.

.....and no amount of your boring raving about 3 movies in their extended versions alters that one bit.

Actually I'm not trying to slam the EE's of LOTR, it's just self evident that excepting a relative handful geeky adolescent males no-one is chomping at the bit to sit down to 3 movies ranging from just short of 4hrs to just over 4hrs.

I like film and I think these films are cinematic greats but a 12hr marathon?
Not today thanks.......and that has kept on to the point where I have had them for well over a year now and never bothered with them once.

I suspect I am far from alone in that.

Oh sure, when they come they'll sell relatively well on Blu-ray (in the one version, so no-one gets a choice) but the key word there is relatively.

Howls of derisive laughter at your trademark infantile attempt at a dig btw.
Genuinely pathetic, as per.

You dreary tedious cretin.
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Always a negative from you
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No, it;'s not negaitive, just accurate and grounded in reality.

You feel free to suck up the spin & PR if you like, just don't say no-one told you different when you end up feeling p'eed off that the expensive Blu-ray version which they all told you would be so much better turns out to be identical in any sane practical sense

(excepting those extras almost all of you claimed were worthless, right?)
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why is Paramount putting PCM AND Dolby True soundtracks on Transformers blu-ray?
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Because the f*ckwit PS3 morons are obsessed with labels and 'think' it automatically means 'better'.

Wake up.
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Why are they not porting the hd-dvd version and creating a brand new master for blu-ray when it would be cheaper to just port the hd-dvd transfer over.....oh I suppose it won't look and sound any different, huh?
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Who said anything about a new encode of the visual images for Transformers?

You can be assured that besides the extra extras it will not look or sound any different.

But you go ahead and convince yourself otherwise & pay at least double the price for it now, k?]]>May 28th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
Of course the additional space could equally be used by anything with a long running length such as TV series.

Grow up little baby your precious format lost.

]]>May 29th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/Dr F*ckwit

The use for the extra capacity is quite evident.
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Where?

There's not one movie that could not have been fitted onto HD DVD and your example you typically clutch at (like as if 3 non-theatrical release movies mean bu*ger all anyways) the EE of LoTR would have been outstanding with a DD+ audio track.
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You are feebly trying to marginalize the extended editions simply because it makes it all the more obvious the trouble they would fitting on your beloved dead format.
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Wrong again. With a DD+ audio track they could easily have fitted and no-one barring a handful with the most expensive high-end kit could ever have had even the chance of telling the difference (if there in fact actually turned out to be one).
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Not that they ever will.
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Yeah, the movie mafia saw to that.......and saw you morons ask for & get the high margin expensive niche product.

Too bad for you it's almost invisible in the mass-market (and where it is visible is up the game console cul-de-sac or a ridiculously over-priced stand-alone) and is dying on it's ar$e.
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Of course the additional space could equally be used by anything with a long running length such as TV series.
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LMAO you truly are a f*cking ill-informed moron.

Research has consistentaly proved that people like multi-disc sets as they think they are getting something 'special' (but get sniffy after 4 discs).

This particular 'justification' for Blu-ray is as ignorant and stupid as they come.

But coming from you that's no surprises there then.
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Grow up little baby your precious format lost.
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As sad, tedious, weak and pathetic as ever......but thanks for giving me a great big laugh at your fanboy trademark stupidity and lame dumbass comments.]]>May 29th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
Wow, that's a cretinous remark even for you. Anyone offered an entire series of Lost (for example) which occupied less discs but maintained the same quality would be quite happy about it. As would the studio producing them as it saves them money too.

Grow up baby your precious format lost.]]>May 29th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
You really are a brain-dead fanboy.]]>May 30th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
Grow up baby your precious format lost.
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Keep digging Dr f*ckwit.

.....and wtf are you on about over disc numbers?

You want to talk to some people in the industry & inform yourself.

Show me a single movie release that went over 4 discs.
Never happened except for the most rare special interest niche release.

Yes we all know Blu-ray can do 1 disc series releases
(but usually prefer to rip people off with a series x part 1 disc & a seperate series x part 2 disc)
but so what & who cares, the fact stands that research shows people like multi-disc releases cos they think they are getting something extra with them.
Idiot.

You're an ignorant moronic PS3 game console fanboy only taken seriously only by the rest of the laughable blu-ray.com game console pack here.

Plain & simple. ]]>May 30th 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 30th 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
LMAO

The special needs schooling clearly isn't helping you much. ]]>May 30th 2008 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
Sorry, LoTR, standard-def is good enough for me...

Btw, Truth Teller, nice jab at Blu-ray even though is was totally unnecessary. ]]>May 28th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
I'm expecting Star Wars to be a set of all six movies though, which would suck.]]>May 28th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
IT'S ABOUT D**N TIME!!!!! ]]>May 28th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/
LotR blu-ray though is an absolute must.]]>May 28th 2008 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/May 28th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-headed-to-blu-ray/Jun 1st 2008 10:50AM