LOTR HD DVD & Blu-Ray News
1/18/07, 11:26 pm EST - Xoanon
TheHutt writes: During their TotalHD press conference at CES, Warner announced that New Line was working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy for both HD DVD and Blu-ray. While they did confirm that the titles were in the works, no details were given. A source close to the matter gave us a few details of the upcoming release, these include:
* Main feature will be a single DL disc on both HD DVD and Blu-ray. (no word if it will be a TotalHD disc (TotalDVD is a double-sided combination of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray)
* The movies will be the Theatrical Versions of each film.
* Both discs will be encoded using VC1
* These will be the first titles to use Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Audio
* Due to bandwidth constraints, as of now there will be no IME ("In Movie Experience") like features.
LotR on HD DVD & Blu-Ray
LotR on HD DVD & Blu-Ray
Well, thats a bit crap....
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Now the reality sets in. One casuality of the Jackson/New Line rift will probably be the anticipated HD box set with more special features.
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Even if/when I have an HD TV set and a high-def DVD player of some kind, the same-old same-old theatrical discs are not what will get me to buy these films again.
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