I know this thread's a month old, but the link in the "save star wars dot com" thread brought it to my attention.

Yeah, I was hoping those early screenshots posted back in June would turn out to be erroneous, but that's actually what the final discs look like.

Personally, I'm waiting until they release competent transfers of both versions. The theatrical blu-rays were of such low quality, and people are so misinformed that they largely passed it off as "the way they've always looked."

As for the color-timing issues on the new FOTR EE blu-ray, well, there are so many factors to consider that I won't go into. What I will say is that the "dissolve to white" after Arwen saves Frodo from the Nazgul is now a "dissolve to a heavily green-tinted white." There's a green tint over the entire running time of the new transfer actually. It's pretty serious evidence that a mistake was made at some point in the pipeline.

Even if they don't do a replacement program, I would hope they fix it by the time the "ultimate" blu-ray comes out (unless, as we've discussed, this really is how PJ and Andrew Lesnie wanted it to look /doubtful).