Nick66 said:
HDTV 2004 SE's?
Hmmmmm. I'm assuming they're just upscales?
I got all excited once when I found an HDTV FOTR w/o the green tint, until I realised it was just a crappy upscale of the DVD.
Harmy said:
No, they are definitely not upscales - the BDs come from the same master as the 2004 DVDs - the 2004 DVD master was done in 1080p and some HDTV stations did broadcast it in 1080i, so those are native HD (high quality HDTV captures are now available on myspleen).
And there were native HD broadcasts of LOTR as well but only TTT was shown in the EE version - so the EEs found online were usually 1080p for the theatrical scenes and DVD upscales for the extended scenes.
Nick66 said:
Interesting...yeah, now that I think about it of course you're right, re: the BD's coming from the same master as the 04 DVD's. Just didn't know they actually showed them on HDTV (not that I'm interested in them anyway...'04 is only slightly less offensive than '11).
I knew that the Theatrical LOTR had aired in genuine HD, and I actually did find the EE of all three films from an HDTV broadcast, but as you pointed out the EE scenes were upscales. I wonder who did this?
Thanks!
Danfun128 said:
I know this is off topic but i'm confused. Are you saying that the hdtv transfer of the LOTR trilogy is better than the blu rays?
Harmy said:
Well, it definitely has far better colors than the EE BD and it has far less DVNR than the theatrical BD. This goes mainly for FOTR though - the other two movies are I believe the same transfers for HDTV, OT BD and EE BD (although the OT BDs of TTT and ROTK also suffer from DVNR and EE of TTT has a green tint but to a lesser extent than FOTR).
On the other hand, all the HDTV captures of LOTR I've seen suffered from pretty bad compression artifacts - there simply isn't a really good HD version of LOTR out there.
Feallan said:
What about kk650's versions? I've yet to watch it, but supposedly it looks very good.
I'd download it now, but goddamn tehparadox is down for 2 days already. :(
Harmy said:
I downloaded it and while it is an improvement over the official BD, it still looks nothing like the original colors seen on DVD, HDTV and OT BD.