LOTR Trilogy (theatrical version) on Blu-ray in 2010

jefferiestubes8 · Apr 10, 2010

KB24 said: ↑

This may be a dumb question, but this set is widescreen, right? Why would anybody make anything fullscreen anymore?

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3 reviews say:
1080p in their native 2.40:1 aspect ratios

The films are presented in full 1080p video (using the VC-1 codec), in the original 2.35:1 scope aspect ratio.

Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.41:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Oddly the DVDtalk review mentions:

The Lord of the Rings was encoded using VC-1 at a resolution of 1080p (1.85:1),
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which must be inaccurate.

ALso blu-ray.com has a review up :
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Motion-Picture-Trilogy-Blu-ray-Review/5174/

and digitallyobsessed has a review up:
http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displayreview.php?ID=2257

jefferiestubes8 · Apr 24, 2010

The Fellowship of the Ring audio mix for BR

a new near-field mix of

The Fellowship of the Ring
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Here's the story:
Fixing Fellowship's Audio

One of the biggest fixes was to the audio for The Fellowship of the Ring. Mike Brunsmann at Warner Brothers DVD/BD Production contacted me that they had found a discrepancy in the audio for The Fellowship of the Ring. Whereas The Two Towers and The Return of the King were EX encoded, Fellowship was just 5.1 with no EX encoding at all. That told me something was wrong, because all three films had been originally encoded in EX. That needed to be corrected. It also made me recall that the mix itself for the DVD of FOTR was problematic and inconsistent with the audio for the DVDs of TTT and ROTK.

What had happened was, back in 2002, the group that was doing the encoding for Fellowship actually remixed the film from its original stems and created a new near-field mix, but not a Peter Jackson-approved mix. The audio track was also flattened out and it was kicked up a few decibels compared to the other two films. This accounts for the excessive bass that some consumers noted on the original, release of FOTR. Chris Boyes, one of the original mixers from the film itself, was brought in at the 11th hour to try and fix it, but at that point, he had to pick his battles and there was only so much he could correct. Because of this, the films mixing team was placed in charge of TTT and ROTK on DVD, so this issue did not recur on those discs, nor on any of the Extended Editions.
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So, what most people don't know is that the audio track on the DVD of the theatrical edition of Fellowship was very different than the mix Peter and his team originally created for the film in theaters. New Line had planned to correct this on the HD releases, but that got lost in the shuffle of the transition to WB.

So I put Amy White at Warner Brothers DVD/BD Production in touch with Peter's Wingnut Films, and Park Road Post in New Zealand, who retained copies of the original theatrical mixes. And Chris Boyes and Michael Semanick, two of the guys who mixed the original films were brought in to supervise a new near-field mix of Fellowship to bring it in line with The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Chris and Michael had wanted to fix this for years, so I know that made them happy to finally be able to address this issue. It may have made a few consumers happy as well.
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http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/ringsbdmp/index.html

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