Each Blu-ray disc in the set is BD-Live enabled. It also leaves some room for bonus features on each disc. Even with a whopping 50 GB of storage on each disc, splitting the film over two platters is really the only way the studio can offer the films with the highest possible bit rate for maximum sound and picture quality. No, it isn't an homage to the days of laserdisc. The studio has pulled a "TTC" ( The Ten Commandments) and split each film across two Blu-ray discs. The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition comes in a beautiful and hopefully rigid slipscase. You may want to keep your therapist's number handy in case things start getting a tad confused on Day two when you start thinking about sacrificing the family dog in the BBQ (Mordor) because you think he's Gollum and after the remote.I mean the one ring. This is easily a multi-day affair for the serious fan of the film. The extended versions of the films add another couple of hours to the total running time of the set. It looks like you may need to call in sick that week the bonus features run a staggering 26 hours. Peter Jackson has thrown literally everything but a Hobbit into this colossal 15-disc set, including the insightful documentaries on the making of each film by director Costa Botes.
You can pre-order it over at Amazon for a lot less than the $119 street price. Now we know that the one box set to rule them all will be available on June 28th, 2011. We reported on the preliminaries of this announcement earlier in the month, but the studio left us guessing as to a release date and the technical details for the upcoming Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-ray set.
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