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Return of the King Coming Sooner to DVD
daveewart writes "According to the BBC, the DVD for the third installment of Lord Of The Rings will go to DVD quicker than either of the first two parts of the trilogy. It is scheduled for release on 25 May, with the usual 'extended version' to follow 'at the end of the year'." Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3 542000/3542695.stm
At least they have the decency to tell people beforehand that they are releasing a special edition. A few years ago my brother, who's an avid collector of DVDs, bought Reservoir Dogs. Inside the DVD was an advertisement for Special Edition which was coming out in a few months.
Personally, I'd buy a lot more DVDs if they were upfront with their release schedule. There are too many movies I want to buy, but just can't because I don't know when, or even if, they are going to be releasing special editions. I wonder if the number of people who hold back on DVD purchases for this purpose balance out the number who buy both editions?
Here's the correct link. Good to see Editorial control and reviewing is still as strong as ever.
ooooooh! What does this button do? - DeeDee, Dexters Lab.
"I'm sure most of you have heard me blabbing off in the past few weeks but we've just finished the extended cut of the DVD. I finished the edit before I came over here - these poor bastards at Weta have got another 350 effects shots to do! They're well on the way. Elijah's seen the extended cut. New Line have announced some box set that's supposed to be coming out which I didn't know anything about. When I've done King Kong I'd like to do a proper box set and we've got a whole bunch of material - not of the movie but we've got a whole lot of bloopers out there! When King Kong's out the way I'd like to do a really high definition version with the best possible picture quality."
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It's a hidden "Easter Egg" on one of the movie DVDs in the Two Towers box set. IIRC you need to try and scroll past the last scene entry in the menu to highlight the hidden ring menu option, and press enter.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
*SIGH* The first ever story I submit which gets posted and the editors manage to munge the URL I include ...
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Correct link is http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/354
"If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it." --- Arthur Kasspe
...is already included on The Two Towers Extended DVD box set, disc 1.
Go to the chapters area, then select the last chapter. Doing so should bring up a Ring that can be selected to play an intro from Peter J. and the full acceptance speech. (Peter J. has a great sense of humor to allow his coworkers/Gollum to call him a "fu**ing hack!" in the ditty.)
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
The acceptance speech is an easter egg on the Two Towers Extended version. Just go into Scene-Selection, skip all the way to the bottom, go down after the last one. A ring appears and the easter egg too. (It's the same with the Fellowship extended, MTV-Awards the year before)
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
At last week's post-award show, Jackson did state that New Line was working on a box set, and that he had only found out on that day (so it was without his knowledge or input). He will try to convince NewLine to wait, as he would love to work on a boxset once he's done work with KingKong. If that's the case, a boxset would be 2-3 years away.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
Or just copy them to your media PC's hard drive and watch them that way.
I simply used 'dd if=/dev/dvd of=file.dvd' to copy dvds to my hard drive. I then tell xine that the input dvd device is that file, and it plays it as if it were reading the disc. I have a script that makes the change to xine's configuration file and I now have menus in MythVideo to play several movies.
And if drive space is an issue, you can strip out the menus or recompress. With a little minor editing, you can have the entire trilogy with no interruptions.
No they won't release a longer version. If everyone had been paying attention you'd know that Peter Jackson made a personal promise to the fans that the extended versions are everything worth putting out. He promised he wouldn't pull a Lucas.
New Line are actually a small (in Hollywood standards) studio so they will milk it for everything they can. Their films are generally not big money earners. I've masturbated to LOTR.
I don't know if you're trolling but I'll bite...
First of all the relase is a retail DVD-RIP on 2 DVD-5 discs (the retail is on a DVD 9, so Centropy split it in two), and it's not a telesync.
Secondly, do you even know what a telesync is? A telesync is when Joe goes in the cinema, takes his camera (WITH a tripod) and plugs it in directly to the audio out of the theater's sound system. So you usually have very good sound, and decent picture quality.
When you were referring to is called a TeleCine, but the transfer is not usually expensive, or needed. Just play it in the machine, connect the video/audio out and that's it.
yeah - was the preview to ROTK on the theatrical TTT DVD - Gandalf with Merry on Shadowfax, just before they go and stop Denethor killing himself and Faramir - during the fight Gandlaf's staff is broken which is why for the rest of the battle he fights only with his sword (not to mention nicking a spear off one of Denethors guards as he storms the crypt)
Apparently, he is also including a scene where Aragorn fights Sauron in the first place.
Sorry I meant telecine. The impression I was given was that to do it properly (avoiding bleeching etc) required time/effort/money. Seems I was mistaken there is now a (retail) DVDrip available. Id been mistaken with a version that was claiming to be this by several people but had only been sourced from a telecine.
The internet makes me stupid.
Come play Moral Decay!
Jackson has said that if it's up to him, the only other edition to come out will be in a few years when HD-DVD becomes the standard (read my earlier posts).
There is no other extra footage to add. What you get in the Extended Editions is it.
Jackson, however, has little control over what New Line does. They may release a box set, but I doubt they'd do that without Jackson's OK.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
I was watching the first one the first one last night quite late because it has to go back to the library today. It got quite late and I realized that this thing was going to be around forever. It didn't matter if I how much a saw in one session; it's never going to go away.
It will be around in fifty years like Beatle records and Star Wars videos. It doesn't matter if the DVD comes out this month or next; it's still going to be on the shelves when your an old man.
That's such a flawed plot. The 19 lesser rings only had power because of the One Ring. Once it was destroyed, the others became useless. That's why the elves had to leave for the undying lands because their three rings, which allowed them to maintain their realms in middle-earth outside the undying lands, had lost their power. So unless this heir of Boromir was an avid jewelry collector, there's not much point in gathering them.