First Online Review of FOTR DVD!

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[HairOfTheDog]

Morning - No extra parts.... he is talking about the regular "theater" version that will come out in August...

Here, have some coffee! Happy Saturday!

[Elenya]

I'm so envious I'm gonna scream... I am screaming!

[maquiladora]

Ahhhhh.....Doh!

I'm just so keen to hear about the extended version DVD that I forgot that there was a standard version coming out first.
My bad!

Yes, time for more coffee methinks. :-)

[HairOfTheDog]

I know... When I saw the headline I assumed extended version and got all excited too.

[HairOfTheDog]

How did you do with that screaming? - Did it help? - Shall I try it?

[Penny1]

Sorry about that, I didn't even think about specifying that this was the theatrical version in the headline. I don't very often start threads, you can chalk it up to my inexperience. ;)

[HairOfTheDog]

No, your headline is perfectly accurate... our excitement is just clouding our vision!

[Species8472]

To pre order the DVD from New Line click here:

FOTR DVD

[Species8472]

That link dosn't work try this:

FOTR DVD

[maquiladora]

Did you check out the site where this article comes from?

He's got some nice pics of the menus and some stills to show the quality....looks great!

[HairOfTheDog]

No - I didn't - thanks for the heads up!

[paul544]

You can buy this on EBay. I saw it there a couple of weeks ago, but refused to buy it. They even had a couple of screenshots of the main menu. It was for real but was obviously ill gotten, so I stayed away.

Here
And here

[supercat]

I urge you to get the widescreen edition. What will probably happen with a movie like LOTR is all that lovely scenery will be chopped to pieces, characters will be cut out of frames, and shots like the following will likely be unrecognizable:

When I first saw Cinema Paradiso, it was on a 16mm print which used a mixture of letterboxed and 4:3 formats. The change between the two was done imperceptably, except that at parts of the movie I found myself thinking "Hmm... it's letterboxed" and in others thinking "Hmm... not letterboxed". But I didn't notice where the switches occurred.

I don't know why such a thing isn't done much on videos? Oftentimes, a movie will be letterboxed during the opening credits, then switch to 4:3, and then switch back to letterbox just before the end credits (if they start rolling over the last scene). If videos can switch then, why don't they do more such switching? Also, it might be effective to use a 16:9 aspect ratio a fair amount (going wider when the scene demands it). DVD picture detail is optimized at a 16:9 ratio, and in many cases a 16:9 ratio will take in the entire necessary portion of the frame (though 2:1 and wider format should be used in places where needed action would otherwise be off-frame).

BTW, the worst piece of pan-and-scan I saw was on a 16mm print of Born in the U.S.A., where some of the captions were wider than the film frame. The pan-and-scan-ists scanned over the entire frame left to right to allow reading the caption, despite the fact that such scan had no rational relationship to any on-screen action.

[Elenya]

How did you do with that screaming? - Did it help? - Shall I try it?

It does help... but only temporarily :o)

[Elenya]

I mean who is still on dial-up these days anyway? heh heh

Sigh...

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh I am so sorry! - ;~D

[Mamzelle]

Wonder if someone could help me here...I'm interested in both hard data and anecdotes...How is the video/dvd selling? My own anecdote--when I dropped into Blockbuster to pick up my copy, I asked the clerk who said, "Nobody is leaving here without one today."

I'm hoping that Jackson is cleaning up on the video, and am wondering if that's the case.