Finally, some real Return of the King EE DVD info

[Dakkareth]

Is anyone planning to have a party at home in watching all of LOTR, me is just going ta veggie in watching all of it again...in extended by widescreen, by 5.1 sound, viewing by 27" inch screen, in glorious 16:9 compression.

Definitely. We've been doing it for FotR EE + TTT (theater) and FotR EE + TTT EE + RotK (theater) and there would be something wrong with december, if there wasn't a massive LotR orgy to look forward to. Really, december without LotR ... it seems so empty :/.

About the technical part I'm not so sure atm - 5.1 sound is a must, but I'm not sure how big a screen we can get. Of course a high quality beamer would be perfect ('we' refers to me, my three sisters and several friends - a normal screen would be a little small) ...

 

[Ranger REG]

You might as well buy a HD-ready projector. I'm sure you can adjust the size up to what, 8 feet diagonal?

 

[ssampier]

I'm not worried

DVDs will be the standard for MANY years to come. They may release lots of tech gagets, but it takes a lot of time to create a standard. After all, VHS was king for twenty something years.

 

[Truth Seeker]

You might as well buy a HD-ready projector. I'm sure you can adjust the size up to what, 8 feet diagonal?

I don't have room for that...my room is 'maxed' out...LOL

 

[Dimwhit]

Heck you don't even have to go that far, a 23GB BluRay disk would work just fine.

That's what I was talking about. The BlueRay discs should work fine.

And I had heard the rumor that Jackson would do a single, chronological version of the series. That is also what I was thinking of. Just imagine it...one disc, 12 hours of LotR reshuffled to be in the proper order...mmmm...

 

[Truth Seeker]

That's what I was talking about. The BlueRay discs should work fine.

And I had heard the rumor that Jackson would do a single, chronological version of the series. That is also what I was thinking of. Just imagine it...one disc, 12 hours of LotR reshuffled to be in the proper order...mmmm...

Make it 14...no...15 hours!!!!...pleAsEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!*picture a drooling smiley*

 

[Ranger REG]

I don't have room for that...my room is 'maxed' out...LOL

You don't have room for a projector the size of a Playstation and a hanging linen sheet?

 

[Truth Seeker]

You don't have room for a projector the size of a Playstation and a hanging linen sheet?

ROFL

 

[Ranger REG]

That's what I was talking about. The BlueRay discs should work fine.

And I had heard the rumor that Jackson would do a single, chronological version of the series. That is also what I was thinking of. Just imagine it...one disc, 12 hours of LotR reshuffled to be in the proper order...mmmm...

But will it play in my current DVD machine?

 

[Zulithe]

I do think projectors will be the way of tomorrow, look at this new wave of flatscreen TVs we're seeing. People whant large screens that take up virtually no space and projectors can give them that.

I'm sure projectors, once they reach the proper level of popularity and consumer demand will have various input jacks just like TVs do today (there may already be some that do, I haven't researched into it)

The problem with projectors though is they would be much cheaper to produce than HDTVs and it is doubtful that the companies that sell TVs could make as much money off of them which is why we aren't seeing a real "push" for such technology. Still, hopefully in, what 5 or so years, we'll see a real trend in that direction.

P.S. maybe this has been covered but has it officially been revealed why the Minias Tirith statue opens up? The consensus is that it holds the DVDs but that sure is odd, I don't think stacking DVDs on top of eachother like that is the best way to go about storing them.