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Gotta love how they rag on the picture quality and general laziness of this release, then tell you to just go ahead, bend over and take it. Ridiculous...

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I have to admit if these were the EE's I'd have bought them even with the current PQ because it is somewhat of an improvement over the DVD, and audio upgrade would be great. But The TE's + the lackluster makes it incredibly easy to stay away.

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$20 is pretty standard pricing, even for a catalog one disc release. At least with these you're getting a 3hr movie.

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Yeah......what? $20 per film isn't "kind of ridiculous" at all.

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Yeah, but you tend to get a discount when you buy multiple movies together. Then again, this is LOTR, so I can't blame them.

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Yeah whatever, I'm spoiled on good deals...I don't know, it's a set - of almost 10 year old movies. After $40 for an entire season of Star Trek, or $37 for 6 Rocky movies, yes I'm spoiled...but it's LOTR blah blah!

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Yeah, it's hard to get excited about $20 a piece for bare bones discs, theatrical cuts at that... especially after all the negative reviews about the pic quality.

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Yes, it is, when you consider that they're:
- catalog releases
- barebones
- below-average bd transfers
- theatrical versions
- bundled together

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I was planning on getting this. I had mine pre-ordered for awhile, but decided to cancel it last night since Amazon usually begins the shipping phase on Friday mornings. A trilogy as big as this one should be getting video reviews of 4.5 and 5, not 2.5 and 3.0. I still may cave next week and grab it at Best Buy. I did preorder there to get the steelbook. But I may end up just waiting on a price drop, or be patient and wait for something better. I'm not sure I want to give WB $60 for what looks like a lazy cash-in release. Especially when we're only getting 3 actual BDs.

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Except
- they're major blockbuster catalogue releases from the past decade that are ~3 hours long each, not some obscure little movies from dozens of years ago
- they still have special features, just on separate discs - "barebones" is kind of misleading
- only one is a below-average bd transfer
- so?
- so?

$20 per film is still very reasonable.

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I wasn't going to get this anyway... but it's really disappointing hearing that about the PQ. I swear it's like Warner does this stuff on purpose. It's one thing to crap up DVD releases so people will buy the Blu-ray but to crap the theatrical releases to make the extended ones look better... not cool.

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You're of course assuming they won't botch the extended cut release as well.

I don't see malicious intent here. Just incompetence.

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Does anyone know when or even if we will see the extended editions on Blu-ray?

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I seem to recall some talk of cross promotion with the upcoming The Hobbit film.

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I was considering picking up this set during a sale, but since reviews of the first film's picture quality are negative, I'll just wait for the extended edition set. Hopefully the picture quality of Fellowship will be improved.

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I was in my local B.J.'s this morning, and this was already on the shelves for sale.

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Anyone else seeing the same thing lately when ordering on Saturday?

Amazon's release day delivery guarantee has been working great for me since they started it a few months ago. As long as I met the deadline of the pre-order, I always got everything on Tuesday. However, that's not the case anymore. I could even order on Monday morning, choose 2-day release day delivery, and I'd still get everything the next day. I took these screen shots this morning for the LOTR listing. I'm not buying it, but wanted to show everyone what I'm seeing and was wondering if others are seeing this as well. The same thing happened to me on Sherlock Holmes. I got the title on Wednesday, even though I ordered it the Saturday before, which, according to Amazon's listing, was in plenty of time to get it on Tuesday.

I know it's just a 1 day difference, but if they're giving release day delivery, I better get it on release day.

Check this out:

http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/a...azon-prime.png

http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/a...rc-bd/cart.png

Huh?

Re: Lord of The Rings on Blu-Ray in 2010!
 

are you going to tell us the price?

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I don't know if it's out on shelves at my club, but the list price is $69.99.

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The instore US price has got to be lower than I'm seeing on here... we never get good deals in Canada and this is will be selling everywhere locally for $49.99.

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Of course Canada get the good deal.

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Sorry. $69.99 was the price.

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No. It's not. Especially for a catalog title.

My average cost per title in 2010 is $10.76 and I've purchased 50 titles (47 being individual films, 3 being box sets).

The highest priced box set I paid for was the Planet of the Apes: 40th Anniversary Collection which was $45. Divide that by five films in the set and we're at $9 per film. Each disc filled with bonus features, some exclusive to the Blu-ray set.

The highest priced single title I paid for is a tie between Black Dynamite and Ninja Assassin for $25 because I was simply impatient and needed them now.

I'm fine with my extended edition DVD sets of the trilogy and I wouldn't double-dip until I can score the extended edition Blu-rays, with ALL of its bonus material, for under $50.

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I ordered Sherlock Holmes last Saturday and managed to get it release day.

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$20 per movie is "reasonable" as far as being priced the same as every other catalog title that's been released lately. That's pretty standard across the board, give or take a couple bucks. I think that's all that people are saying.

Obviously bargain hunters that routinely count their averages won't buy it at that price, but what other brand new catalog release have had pricing under $15?

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Looks like what you're seeing there isn't their "guaranteed Release Date Delivery" option. It's more of an "order this now and we estimate it should arrive on release day" thing. Here's what the guaranteed delivery option looks like (from another item listing, obviously):

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...y_delivery.jpg

Some Disney titles, such as Snow White for $10 at Amazon, come to mind. But you are correct for the most part. Even with catalog releases one usually has to wait for a while to get a decent deal.


Edit: The new catalog release, The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), is just $11.99 for a two disc BD/DVD set at Amazon. Perhaps we will see more reasonable priced catalog releases.

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I contacted Amazon about this. I ordered Sherlock Holmes with "release date delivery" and got it Thursday. They gave some BS reason but I think that sometimes it just doesn't work.

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Well my local Fry's has it for $59.** so I'll probably pick it up there. Best buy is selling it for $74.** and you can forget it at that price. $60 tops was my margin and I'll head toward Fry's in the morning.

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Best Buy also has the trilogy for the same price as Fry's, $59.99. The Best Buy Collectors edition with the junk included is $74.**.

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Ah I see so she looked at the wrong one, ok. Well I have to go to Fry's anyway but thanks for clearing that up.

Re: Lord of The Rings on Blu-Ray in 2010!
 

And how many years ago did we all buy these LOTR EE on DVD for ~$25.

Re: Lord of The Rings on Blu-Ray in 2010!
 

So are the 3 Bonus Feature DVDs the same ones that came with the original DVDs?

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I recall reading that they are essentially the same bonus features discs, except that the video game previews/trailers have been replaced with newer-ish video game previews/trailers.

Personally, since I have all 3 TEs on DVD, I would rather they have just done away with the 6 DVDs in the set.

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yeah it feels like a rip off since I don't care to watch the extras again, and especially not in standard DEF. And 3 extra discs for digital copies? Just give me the 3 movie discs in superb HD quality, and it looks like they couldn't even get that done.

And just by the fact that these do look better than the DVDs, and the audio is deffinatly better. I'm STILL considering getting it. I mean how likely is it they will release another TC with the video done right this time? Should I wait out for that? Because I actually love the TC of the fellowship much better than the EE.

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AMEN!
I'm with you. It's pretty much the only reason I bought these. I love the beginning of FOTR much more than in the EE. Can't wait to watch it tonight.

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I suppose there's an outside chance the eventual EE edition will contain the TE's via branching. Assuming there is some kind of video improvement that might be one reason to wait.

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I will wait for the EEs and hope for a better transfer. I was watching RoTK EE on PS3, and it still looks damn good in 480p.

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So for the people that did buy this,what is your conclusion on the transfer? How about the audio side of it? I felt that the audio transfer of the SD versions(especially FOTR) was outstanding! How does the BD version compare?

FWIW, DVD Talk has a review up now:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Theatrical Editions (Blu-ray)