On the Cusp of Newzbin... LOTR FLOOD on Horizon

[Beck38]

Just in case anyone fergot...

The LOTR Blu-Ray sets are being released next week (US/RegionA, don' know about any others) and the FLOOD of 50GB rips are starting to flow already...

Take a week or so for the recodes to flow.

[ericab]

so-far the best is:

The.Fellowship.of.the.Ring.2001.BluRay.1080p.DTSMA.x264.dxva-FraMeSToR

and

The.Two.Towers.2002.Bluray.1080p.DTSMA.x264.dxva-FraMeSToR

third one not yet :/

[ipa]

The third one should be up relatively soon, it just came out on torrents. There is also this collection Lord.of.the.Rings.Trilogy.Theatrical.1080p.DTS-HD.MA.x264-FLAWL3SS-HD, which could be posted at some point.

[whiteboy]

There are already a bunch of re-encodes up on BT and newsgroups.

[yuit]

this trilogy might just be worth getting the whole 50gb bluray

[Beck38]

Since I haven't seen the Blu release 'physically', I don't know if there are the two 'cuts' like the SD versions, i.e. standard and director's.

The length of the thing will tell which one it is, 178m v. 208 for Fellowship, etc. for the rest.

I'm also wondering exactly how large the original m2ts files are, although I'd think at 208m (for the 'extended' version on Fellowship), it's going to be pretty steep size wise.

I haven't seen any reviews yet on any of the disc review sites, they're keeping things pretty nailed down. I'm for one hoping that they'll have all the commentaries as the SD extended versions, and be DTS-HD/MA and NOT Dolby.

They will be big sellers, one can bet, and multi-disc IF the extended versions (and if they do it RIGHT, how about BOTH versions PLUS all the extras, say 4 BR discs per film).

One can hope they aren't going to pull a double-triple dip on these things!

For those folks getting recode versions out this quick, they either have some stunningly fast/expensive silicon out there, or use x264 settings that trade off quality for speed.

Just 'fer fun' I was at my primary PC shop today getting an upgrade set up for a machine, and had them run a cost curve on a 12+ core Xeon workstation, and with decent ram and such it came up to somewhere in the ballpark of $5K.

But it sure would be a jaw dropper!

[whiteboy]

Since I haven't seen the Blu release 'physically', I don't know if there are the two 'cuts' like the SD versions, i.e. standard and director's.

The length of the thing will tell which one it is, 178m v. 208 for Fellowship, etc. for the rest.

I'm also wondering exactly how large the original m2ts files are, although I'd think at 208m (for the 'extended' version on Fellowship), it's going to be pretty steep size wise.

I haven't seen any reviews yet on any of the disc review sites, they're keeping things pretty nailed down. I'm for one hoping that they'll have all the commentaries as the SD extended versions, and be DTS-HD/MA and NOT Dolby.

They will be big sellers, one can bet, and multi-disc IF the extended versions (and if they do it RIGHT, how about BOTH versions PLUS all the extras, say 4 BR discs per film).

One can hope they aren't going to pull a double-triple dip on these things!

For those folks getting recode versions out this quick, they either have some stunningly fast/expensive silicon out there, or use x264 settings that trade off quality for speed.

Just 'fer fun' I was at my primary PC shop today getting an upgrade set up for a machine, and had them run a cost curve on a 12+ core Xeon workstation, and with decent ram and such it came up to somewhere in the ballpark of $5K.

But it sure would be a jaw dropper!

The full BD's have been out there for almost two weeks. So a guy could have done plenty of encodes that were perfect. These are not the extended versions.

And all the reviews say that the transfers were shit. Everyone has been very disappointed with the quality.

BTW they are VC1 with DTS-MA. The fellowship MT2S is 38gb and its about 2:58 in run time.

[Beck38]

The full BD's have been out there for almost two weeks. So a guy could have done plenty of encodes that were perfect. These are not the extended versions.

And all the reviews say that the transfers were shit. Everyone has been very disappointed with the quality.

BTW they are VC1 with DTS-MA. The fellowship MT2S is 38gb and its about 2:58 in run time.

Extremely interesting... so they've already set the thing up to double-dip from the get go, like 'Avatar' is going to be.

>>>>> Avatar is being released on a single disc with no or virtually no extras whatsoever, then there will be a double disc set around the end of the summer, then a MASTER disc set sometime next spring. Triple-Dip from the get go!

Guess that LOTR is going the same route. It's sad to hear the quality is so bad... and yes, the 2:58 is the running time (178min) of the 'standard' cut.

I think a message, in the form of 'DO NOT BUY' needs to be sent to these 'marketeers' who seek to sell these cut down versions. DO NOT BUY! Wait until the CORRECT versions are released.

But of course, that's what we're all doing here, right?

[iLOVENZB]

ESiR 720p up, I suspect 1080p to follow soon.

[whiteboy]

ESiR 720p up, I suspect 1080p to follow soon.

I think CtrlHD is doing them but yes they should be out any day I would think.

(Unless of course esir does some "internals" like they did for inglorious basterds and release straight to usenet)