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Info on the LOTR:FOTR DVD
WonderBoy Cox writes "IGN's FilmForce has an interesting article about the much anticipated Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR:FOTR) DVD coming in the fall of 2002, and the next two movies. According to Jackson The Two Towers is fairly complete in rough cut and Return of the King is coming along nicely. "Both films will be between two-and-a-half and three hours in length with 500 to 600 effects shots, much like the first movie." But, the best part, is that he DVD will have around 30 to 40 minutes of extra footage! "
from ati.com...
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What are the main features of the DVD?
Over 2 hours of very high-quality (better than laser disc) video on a single disc
Over 8 hours on a double-sided dual layer disc
Support for wide screen movies
Some DVD movies allow you to select wide screen or standard screen
Up to 8 tracks of digital audio for multiple language support
Up to 32 subtitle/karaoke tracks
Up to 9 different viewing angles (DVD disc must be encoded with the different angles)
Automatic "seamless" branching of video for multiple story lines or different ratings of one movie
Menus and interactive features
Title, Chapter, and track search
Durability
Compact Size
Language choices
Parental lock
Random accessibility
Dolby Digital AC-3 audio
How much data can a DVD-ROM disc hold? How is it possible?
Three advantages allow a DVD-ROM disc to store several times more data than a CD-ROM disc:
The laser that reads a DVD operates at a higher frequency, which enables it to read data packed more densely on the disc. The new laser technology allows 4.7GB of data to be stored on a single side of a DVD-ROM disc.
Some DVD discs have a second recording layer on top of the primary layer. This in turn doubles the storage space potentially giving a DVD-ROM disc 8.5GB of data storage.
Finally, DVD can be recorded on both sides, enabling a maximum of 17GB of storage per disc.
Every DVD drive must be able to read four kinds of discs. These are; single sided single layer (4.7GB), single sided dual layer (8.5GB), double sided single layer (9.4GB), and double sided double layer (17GB).
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at 8 hours max, and 2.5 hours per movie, I guess that it would be possible, but I don't know how much room menus, extra features, etc, take up...
hope that helps..
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Besides, T & A isn't the kind of thing that should go into a movie such as Apocalypse now. It's a different *kind* of movie.
I guess to sum things up, usually what gets cut gets cut for a reason. I'm willing to agree with the producers/directors on what should be cut initially. I'd rather not let the remastering/DVD guys have more say than the original producers!
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The Digital Bits has some more info and also a link to Urban Cinefile which has an interview with Barrie M. Osborne a producer on the project.
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And when the DVD comes out, there'll be a revised version of the list, I'm sure. Yeah, I'll pick me up a copy...
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> 3) Two Towers, with redesigned packaging
> 4) Fellowship of the ring with packaging to match
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How's this any different than what's already done by the publisher for the books? How many different versions (covers, sizes, sets, etc.) of LOTR are there on the shelves at your local Borders *right now*? It's flat-out amazing.
The sad thing is that most of the new paperback copies of LOTR all feature covers with photos from the movie. I used to have a paperback (maybe early 80's) with some really nice artwork, that I'd much prefer to have on hand for casual reading (so I don't damage my nice red-leather copy), but they've disappeared. And they were probably 5 covers ago.
So, really, in a way, it's a new thing that you buy some kind of software (book, movie) in a package that's the same forever. Publishers are (or seem to be ) used to repackaging stuff every now and then...
A single DVD-18 would probably hold all three movies, but it would hold little else and you would likely make sacrifices in video and audio quality to squeze everything on there. You would also have to get up at some point to flip the disc, as DVD-18 is dual-sided. You could even probably stuff everything onto a single-sided DVD-9, but kiss any video/audio clarity goodbye.
Personally I'll be quite happy with three discs with some nice extras, a good Dolby Digital (or dts for those with the support) soundtrack and a well-mastered anamorphic image.
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> The Ring's power is not to turn people invisible (though it can do that).
It's an interesting idea and your argumentation is good but unfortunately this is not what the book says. All of the rings except of the 3 elven ones (which are different because Sauron didn't take any part in making them) made their owner invisible when put on and allowed him to see the the beings of the other world - as well as being seen by them.
Gene Siskel complained that one scene (with the Balrog) was extremly short in the book but played out longer on screen.
You mean Roger Ebert.
Gene Siskel, a film reviewer for the Chicago Tribune, died from a brain tumor in 2000.
Ebert's current partner is Richard Roeper, also a colummnist for the Chicago Sun Times.
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As the writing of the Lord of the Rings progressed, it seemed more and more out of character, so Tolkien rewrote the chapter, into the version you described. Tolkien later explained it as the first version being what Bilbo wrote in his own early accounts, at which time he was lying to himself to justify stealing the ring (in the same way that Gollum created the "birthday present" story). The later additions indicated a correction based on better,more accurate manuscripts Tolkien translated.
See http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~bouvin/tolkien/changesofh obbit.html for more info.
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