Here you are some screenshot comparisons; I used .png images taken from caps-a-holic.com; top BD, middle ColourMatch’ed BD, bottom DVD (click for larger images):
…now you know why they call it BLU-ray… the snow scene reminds me someTHING… (^^,)
Are results perfect? No, of course. But a really good compromise, and a decisive improvement over the BD colors, do you agree?
OK, time to sleep now, 1 a.m. here. Good night!
Hi all,
I registered on this forum soon after I found the existence of a “despecialized” edition of Star Wars (thanks Harmy!) and I ended up writing my first post about Lord Of The Rings…
I recently bought the extended edition blu-ray trilogy, Italian version. Of course I noticed some tendency of FOTR picture towards a green tint, but after looking the images you posted, it seems to me that my copy is a lot less greenish, although I’ve made the comparison between BD still frames on my LCD TV and your pictures on my PC monitor.
Your 2nd picture of Gandalf seem incredibly greenish to me. The same frame on my TV looks almost like your “Colourmatch” frame; same thing for 1st picture (Hobbiville).
On your 3rd picture, the best match is with first (EE BD) picture (…and that tint looks better to me in respect to the EE DVD tint…).
For sure I have almost the same “blue snow” of your 4th picture (EE BD version), maybe a little less greenish. But some frames before, at the end of the previous chapter, snow on mountains looks almost white.
I also turned on the BD Player’s OSD (with full white text), to make a comparison of white tint. Seems that my release has a very little green tint in respect to your example pictures. Maybe they recently “fixed” the EE BDs trilogy?