Eight hundred dollars?! I don't think so.
Eight hundred dollars?! I don't think so.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2016/08/21/101565-the-nuts-and-bolts-info-on-the-new-middle-earth-6-film-collection-release/
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2016/08/21/101565-the-nuts-and-bolts-info-on-the-new-middle-earth-6-film-collection-release
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2016/08/21/101565-the-nuts-and-bolts-info-on-the-new-middle-earth-6-film-collection-release/
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2016/08/21/101565-the-nuts-and-bolts-info-on-the-new-middle-earth-6-film-collection-release
...Is it made out of the One Ring?
ReplyDeleteA thing that I'd be interested to know: are the LotR movies still split over two discs each? It was annoying, but it made sense on the DVD versions because they couldn't fit the data. But when I bought the trilogy on blu-ray a year or so ago I was really irritated to find that they'd kept the films in that format, despite there not being a physical restriction forcing them to anymore.
ReplyDeleteSo if I already own all Blu Ray theatrical editions plus extended editions (plus the old DVD theatricals and extendeds for lotr — good lord I've now bought those four times) of all six, what exactly does this add in actual non-dead-tree bonus content?
ReplyDelete(PS: remastering DVD quality bonus content from two DVDs onto a single blu Ray — or even from all six DVDs onto a single blu Ray — is a win from the usability and menu quality/navigation standpoints, and even from a manufacturing cost point. It just leads to a disc less in the set, so is a loss from an advertising standpoint, not to mention the mastering cost would be significant. So I understand why they keep just manufacturing more copies of the old DVDs... But don't pretend it couldn't be better.)
ReplyDeleteBTW: Happy Birthday! :-D
ReplyDeleteYou know, if that was the regular box set sort of price of 100-200 I might even be considering it. Once you've bought a movie four times what's a fifth? 800 no way.
ReplyDeleteHeh, thanks Jeffrey Huo !
ReplyDeleteSam Curtis they won't have been remastered again. Problem is that the extended edition is still closing in on four hours, and BD50 still isn't big enough to cover that much time at a bit rate good enough for 1080p, just like a DVD9 wasn't big enough to cover it in decent quality 480p. I mean, they're a bit more than 5 times as big but there is also six times as many pixels in there (slightly less compared to the PAL version). Soundtracks have commensurately ballooned in size. And buyers of the extended edition in particular still expect reference quality sound and sight, not something merely good enough. There's only so much that the improvements in the codec can do.
ReplyDeleteTl;dr: there is definitely still a technical reason to split them over two discs.
Sideways: the picture shows 4 discs per hobbit movie, and the lotr movies include six. I reckon that for the lotr movies that's the two movie discs, the two extras DVDs from the EE and the extras DVD from the regular edition, and for hobbit it's the two extended movie discs plus the bonus disc (the theatrical didn't have a bonus disc, IIRC). If you were paying attention you noticed I'm skipping a disc per movie — I reckon those are the digital copy discs, because there's nothing more amazing than shipping an extra DVD per movie to enable the use of the codes.