Lord of the Rings Trilogy Blu Ray Box Set - £9 @ Tesco Direct & In-Store and AmazonUK

Patty O Furniture

Hi, i just saw this over at HUKD Worth the price

Here are the separate links at Amazon & Tesco

Its the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Theatrical Version) [Blu-ray]


LOTR Bluray now gone up to £16.99 you can still get it at Tescodirect, but you may have to use parcelmotel for that, as i havent used PM yet, i wouldnt know how to use it.

discombobulate

Crazy value. Great spot.

Mad the amount of people on Amazon giving it bad reviews because its not the extended version. Get over it

davidsatelle100

The quality of the transfers on these is meant to be really poor that's why the price keeps on dropping

Verygames11

davidsatelle100 wrote: »

The quality of the transfers on these is meant to be really poor that's why the price keeps on dropping

The one I got is not even full screen, I have tried 4:3, 16:9, 16:10 or whatever it is but still not in full screen

Anyone know how to fix this?

Spudzzmurphy

Verygames11 wrote: »

The one I got is not even full screen, I have tried 4:3, 16:9, 16:10 or whatever it is but still not in full screen

Anyone know how to fix this?

Don't know what TV you have,but if you have a smart setting in the aspect ratio settings ,give that a try.

This DVD box set is not great,video quality poor,one should get the extended versions.

Oafley Jones

davidsatelle100 wrote: »

The quality of the transfers on these is meant to be really poor that's why the price keeps on dropping

It's a good price for the movies, but yeah the quality of these transfers is absolutely terrible. The overly severe noise reduction leads to image quality well below that of the DVDs, not to mention the problems with the green hue, colour correction etc.

GRMA

Ordered it there... is it really worse than the regular dvd?

Oafley Jones

GRMA wrote: »

Ordered it there... is it really worse than the regular dvd?

Yes. There's a good few screen comparisons between version when the reviews first came out.

GRMA

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Yes. There's a good few screen comparisons between version when the reviews first came out.

I'll see I guess... dont own the ordinary dvd set and this is cheaper so I'm not too worried.

It isn't worse than the DVD. It is a lot better.

However it is not on the level that a blockbuster Bluray should be. The PQ is blurry with not much fine detail. When the Extended Edition came out you saw how it should have and could have looked.

For £9 its still decent enough.

Mr Blobby

The quality isn't bad. Its just not up to some Blu Ray transfers.

But if it was me. I'd avoid these and get the Extended edition.

Sad Professor

TTT and ROTK are fine in either version. But there's no escaping transfer issues with FOTR. Both the theatrical and extended editions of the film have problems.

GRMA

What are the major differences between extended and normal?

wandatowell

How could they have botched up the Blu Ray edition? I thought the process of the transfer would be automated at this stage? Im obvious mistaken but still how had can it be?

Patty O Furniture

GRMA wrote: »

What are the major differences between extended and normal?

If you mean duration, afaik 20-25m.

Rodin

GRMA wrote: »

What are the major differences between extended and normal?

Some brilliant scenes are not in the theatrical version.

The stand off between Gandalf and the WitchKing was disgracefully cut from the theatrical version.

Mr Blobby

What would be the chances of this getting here before Xmas ?

blobby360

blobby360 wrote: »

What would be the chances of this getting here before Xmas ?

They say it ships in 6-9 days but with DVDs and Blurays they often come back into stock quicker than expected.

I would just order it and if it doesnt ship by about the 20th then cancel the order.

Basq

FWIW - the Extended Editions suffered much worse on Blu-ray. This hideous green hue haunts them.

Extended are the left, Theatrical are the right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwcm-73kZE8

Make up your own mind, but I watched the Theatrical Editions during the week on Blu-ray and they look far better IMO.

Saw The Hobbit on Thursday, also excellent BTW.

Patty O Furniture

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Hi, i just saw this over at HUKD Worth the price

Here are the separate links at Amazon & Tesco

Its the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Theatrical Version) [Blu-ray]

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seems like the price is see sawing

jamesd

Ordered my Saturday and received yesterday - now that was quick.

pmq71

I picked up the theatrical version of the trilogy on DVD for the kids for £5 in Sainsbury in Newry after watching the Hobbit (really good btw). They also had the blu ray set for £10.

sunny2004

£12.... now

Thirdfox

sunny2004 wrote: »

£12.... now

It's 17.99 in HMV I just got it in Grafton street. Plenty left on the shelves.