Lord of the Rings Extended Edition out in 2011
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I would've preferred the extras being on a Blu-ray myself. Heck, there's enough room on each of the movie discs to include the standard def extras. Even though the material would still be in SD, the more seamless BD menus would have been a nice touch. Also, the artwork and galleries would have likely been redone with HD stills. The clunky DVD navigation cheapens the experience.
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Just to clarify, I wasn't defending the practice, just explaining it. Not combining the extras onto on Bluray disc was definitely one of the factors that kept me from buying. I can swap DVD discs as easily as I can Bluray discs. Though I would have liked to seen the Costa Botes documentaries (though they're still 4x3 letterbox???).
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Those documentaries aren't worth watching if you've seen the enormous amounts of extras on the EE's. I kind of wonder what all the hoopla is about regarding them. And yes, they are 4x3 pillerboxed. Then again, I may have had my settings not right since I just hooked up a new player.
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Anybody buying this, don't delay in opening it, even if you don't watch right away.
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Love them.
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Dumb question I'm sure.....but there's no way to eliminate the widescreen black bars is there to have it be full screen?
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If your TV or Blu-ray player has a zoom function, you may be able to use it to cut off a portion of the image from the sides to fill your screen. As a straight center crop though, this may cause some odd framing, as people and actions towards the edge of the shots are not going to be visible as intended.
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Re: Lord of the Rings Extended Edition out in 2011
At least I can confirm that the digital copy is the original transfer. No green tint, no crushed blacks...
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Get a rope...
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These were released after the separate theatrical/extended DVD releases, so a lot of people probably passed on them since by then they probably had whatever version(s) they wanted. Plus the extended DVDs already had 6-7 hours of documentary footage included per movie.
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It's just a fairly odd question to be asking in 2011, a good 14 years after letterboxing for OAR (Original Aspect Ratio) became standard practice on DVD.
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