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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) (2002)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition) (2003)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition) (2004)
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  • The Peter Jackson Award Winning 'Lord of the Rings Trilogy' now all three films as Extended Editions. The Trilogy tells a story of a meek hobbit of The Shire and eight companions setting out on a journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark lord Sauron.
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Note, all film(s) listed here are Movies Anywhere (MA) compatible.

Good price for those that want to own it digitally
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You might want to look into Starlink. They've been rolling out coverage to more areas. I would have signed up when I was out in the woods had it been available then. Smilie
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Prior to a couple of weeks ago, I owned the original theatrical on Bluray disk and the extended editions on HD digital.

To make a long story short, I bought all 6 movies for $5 a piece individual 4K non extended to watch with my younger sons and am very impressed with the picture quality (fanflix deal). Transfer are great IMO.
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These were filmed on 5k, 3d cameras at 48fps. I didn't love the movies themselves but I watched them in a theater with a world class projector that was capable of displaying them in full fidelity and they were the most visually stunning films I've ever seen.
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06-15-2021 at 03:24 PM.
06-15-2021 at 03:24 PM.
Already have LOTR but it's time to add the Hobbit to the collection, Thanks OP!
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06-15-2021 at 03:45 PM.

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank supermanrob

06-15-2021 at 03:45 PM.
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Plenty of articles online demonstrating that with modern codecs, etc. that streaming has the same perceptive quality as discs. These experts had to freeze frame certain scenes and find minor variances in the distant background between the two. So when watching live, very few people on the planet will notice.

Well it's not that simple and you're kinda oversimplifying it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "modern codecs" but besides that the quality of your display, the transfer of the movie, even the player you are playing the disc plays a big role with all this.

For example if you use a $700 TCL with a Xbox as a player and use a mediocre transfer movie, yes you probably will say "streaming has the same perceptive quality as discs"
Now use an OLED and a Panny 820/420 player and a reference movie transfer, there is definite "perceptive quality" difference.

Freezing the screen vs live two different things also.
The bitrate on streaming if you're lucky is 15 Mbps but more like 12-10.
Disc on the other hand are around 70 Mbps, big difference!

On the other half of a movie(AQ) forget it, there is a substantial drop off in quality with streaming.
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Thanks. Do you know if the AQ is the same? I can't find out whether the digital copies have the Atmos track. Presumably they would but I haven't seen anything definitive.

Depending on the quality of your AQ setup it can be a major difference.

Digital suffers the most with AQ so even with less quality equipment there is still a noticeable difference regardless.
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Do you use iTunes to stream?

Apple has the highest bitrate and lowest compression in the industry. Extremely hard to notice any difference.

I would agree with Apple comment on the other I disagree.

I have Apple TV 4K, 65" OLED and Panasonic 820 player I can easily tell the quality difference.

As a matter of fact there are some BD disc that will rival 4K streaming.
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06-15-2021 at 04:15 PM.
06-15-2021 at 04:15 PM.
Use Raise gift cards if buying through Fandango and get 18% off. I bought a $25 gift card and it came out to just over $20 spent. Hard to beat that. Great post
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06-15-2021 at 04:54 PM.
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They did an amazing job upgrading these movies. The HDR blows the old versions out of the water, and if you have a Dolby Atmos surround system, they sound fantastic.
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richardamp
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Quote from supermanrob :
Well it's not that simple and you're kinda oversimplifying it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "modern codecs" but besides that the quality of your display, the transfer of the movie, even the player you are playing the disc plays a big role with all this.

For example if you use a $700 TCL with a Xbox as a player and use a mediocre transfer movie, yes you probably will say "streaming has the same perceptive quality as discs"
Now use an OLED and a Panny 820/420 player and a reference movie transfer, there is definite "perceptive quality" difference.

Freezing the screen vs live two different things also.
The bitrate on streaming if you're lucky is 15 Mbps but more like 12-10.
Disc on the other hand are around 70 Mbps, big difference!

On the other half of a movie(AQ) forget it, there is a substantial drop off in quality with streaming.
Professional reviewers don't use cheaper TVs. Most will use OLED and Apple TV when testing streaming. I have this combo and it's phenomenal.
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Professional reviewers don't use cheaper TVs. Most will use OLED and Apple TV when testing streaming. I have this combo and it's phenomenal.

Well again to my point what did these "Professional reviewers" (is this a self proclaimed title) use as a player and what movie?
Unless you think every movie transfer & players are the same!?

I too have that combo and 4K LOTR on disc is clearly better than streaming.
Is it "night and day" no not completely!

Sound wise there is NO COMPARISON, streaming is completely INFERIOR by a long shot, even on Apple!
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The Hobbit: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Editions [apple.com] (4K UHD Digital Films)
is showing $29.99 on iTunes for me.

I think OP listed the wrong set. The standard trilogy is $19.99 not the extended.
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I'm seeing 29.99 on iTunes for The Hobbit trilogy Extended?
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I just bought from Vudu and got $24.99 minus a $7.50 "Discount" for a total of $17.50. Any idea why the extra $7.50 off?

That is interesting. Just a few minutes ago I was in my VUDU account. Clicked to remove myself from being sold to marketing companies. They threatened to take away any credits, future credits, any movies outside of Fandango and so much more. It was such an odd threat and they worded it as if I might lose my tv series and movie collections. I think a few were merged, can't remember. Nothing missing so far. I probably will not be eligible for any type of credit in the future. As I said, they sell your information to marketing companies. Not sure it matters any more. Heck, I moved and only changed my drivers license. A week later I found my name and new address listed on google. F'ing scam. There was no opt out with the DMV and I am careful about those things. No more organ donor endorsement either. Horror story central with that for years.
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Just to clarify, the extended versions don't include the original theatrical version as well, correct? I'm assuming those boxed sets which include the extended editions also include the theatrical versions too. Is that correct?
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If you're planning on buying BOTH the theatrical and extended editions of LoTR for $45 total, you can buy a $50 Fandango egift card for $40 at Krogers. You'll pay $40 and get both sets with $5 credit left to use. You'll have to buy the bundles on FandangoNow, but they are MA so they will transfer to all the streaming services.

https://giftcards.kroger.com/deal...o-egift-14

You might be able to use the Fandango egift card at Vudu too, so try that first and be our guinea pig and let us know if it works. Smilie
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Just a few minutes ago I was in my VUDU account. Clicked to remove myself from being sold to marketing companies. They threatened to take away any credits, future credits, any movies outside of Fandango and so much more. It was such an odd threat and they worded it as if I might lose my tv series and movie collections.
Go back and re-read the email they sent you when you clicked "Don't Sell My Data" -- the "threat" you're discussing was an explanation of what happens if you file a "Delete Data" request with them (if you ask them to delete all data relating to you, they evidently have to delete your giftcard balances). But you made a "Do Not Sell" request, which appears to be consequence-free.
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