Chewtobacca said:

kk650 said: 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.

I think we've misunderstood each other. If you mean that the EE BD of FotR is like the other two in terms of consistency of color, I agree. If you mean that the colors themselves are alike, I disagree.

I wonder if the whole of your HDTV stream was recompressed or if only the parts that were upscaled were. If it's the latter, it could be useful. Unfortunately, the alternate takes from the theatrical will have been lost e.g. the approach to Rivendell.

Yeah, I agree that the colour schemes of the three films are different. Using the colour corrected fellowship and comparing to my colour corrected The Two Towers and my colour corrected Return of the King, I would say the first film's colour scheme leans towards green, the second leans towards blue and the third leans towards yellow. All three have their own unique feel.

I don't know what you mean by recompressed but the image quality of the theatrical parts on the hdtv stream are very solid indeed, easily superior to the DNRed theatrical edition blu-ray for whatever that's worth. The theatrical parts are definately HD and not simply uprezed from the extended edition dvds. It's size is 26.8GB overall. The image quality of the extended edition is definately superior though, it doesn't have the lovely fine grain of that release.