Chewtobacca said:

The HDTV cap was the theatrical. People upscaled scenes from the DVDs and inserted them. It's the cap that I want to get my hands on.

kk650 said:I believe Fellowship of the Ring was only partly regraded digitally for the theatrical release while the last two films were 100% graded digitally so maybe that's why they changed the colour grading so much for the fotr ee transfer, to make its colours more in line with the others that had been regraded digitally from the start.

I don't think the FOTR EE BD's colors look like the other two films though.

Compared to the hdtv stream i'm looking at that has very strong colour grading all over the place it does IMHO. The EE blu-ray transfer seems more consistant overall in terms of colour to me, like TTT and ROTK, whereas the hdtv stream has most locations with a completely different colour grading to each other. It certainly makes for a very varied film colourwise but consistant in terms of colour its not. I can't think of a single scene from The Two Towers or Return of the King that has anywhere near as strong colour grading as the council of elrond scene in Rivendell on this hdtv stream.

You're right about all the extended bits, they're clearly dvd upscales but whoever did it has done a pretty good job, they flow fairly seemlessly with the rest of the footage