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We first learned that New Line would be releasing Lord of the Rings on both HD DVD and Blu-ray during the Warner Total HD press conference last week at CES, but no details were given. Now HD-Insider is reporting some details about the upcoming release -- each movie will be on a single dual layer disc encoded using VC1 and will include Dolby TrueHD 7.1. Release date is still unknown and we can only assume that if the title is released the second half of the year it will be a Total HD disc.
During their TotalHD press conference at CES, Warner announced that New Line was working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy for both HD DVD and Blu-ray. While they did confirm that the titles were in the works, no details were given.
A source close to the matter gave us a few details of the upcoming release, these include:
- Main feature will be a single DL disc on both HD DVD and Blu-ray. (no word if it will be a TotalHD disc)
- The movies will be the Theatrical Versions of each film. Yes you heard it right.
- Both discs will be encoded using VC1
- These will be the first titles to use Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Audio *crosses fingers for 24bit*
- Due to bandwidth constraints, as of now there will be no IME like features.
It's a real bummer that New Line is forcing us once again to double dip by releasing the theatrical versions, not that it was unexpected.
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