Page 1 of Lord Of The Rings DVD--Extended Version

Disc 1-2: The Feature
- 208 minute long version with over 30 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film and new music scored by Howard Shore.

- Widescreen (2.35:1) version, Dolby Digital EX 5.1 & 2.0 Surround Sound, DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound

- Four audio commentaries by director and writers, the design team the production team and the cast featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Academy Award® winners Richard Taylor, Andrew Lesnie, Howard Shore, Jim Rygiel, Randy Cook…and many more


Disc 3: "From Book to Vision"

- Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film, Designing and building Middle-earth, Storyboards to pre-visualization.

- Weta Workshop visit - An up-close look at the weapons, armor, creatures and miniatures

- Atlas of Middle-earth: Tracing the journey of the Fellowship, An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process

- Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists, Guided tour of the wardrobe department, Footage from early meetings, moving storyboards and pre-visualization reels

Disc 4: "From Vision to Reality"

Bringing the characters to life, A day in the life of a hobbit, Principal photography: Stories from the set, Scale: Creating the illusion of size, Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos, Editorial and visual effects multi-angle progressions, Sound design demonstration

Mmmm. This is the one I`m holding out for.

Im looking forward to this one more than the one in Aug. But i`ll end up gettin` them both. When I get the August. issue im going to throw a LOTR DVD party so I can still get the same feeling I got in the theater.

Does anyon know what the little statues are made from in the box set?

Are they clay? plastic? gold?

Someone explain to me about this 2 disk s*** yeah, how the hell do you have one movie on 2 disks, are you seriously telling me half way through the film I have to switch to disk 2??? Seriously???

With the extra 30 minutes the movie is approx 3 1/2 hours long. With a 6.1 soundtrack it wont fit on to 1 disc. So yeah you will have to change the disc halfway through. I dont like the sound of it either but I have to get the extra 30 minutes too.

To be honest I prefer to get my arse up in the middle of the film (as I have to do with Lawrence of Arabia) than to sit through a film where you can constantly see compression faults and pixelations because the distributor chose to cram 3 1/2hours plus DD5.1EX and DTS6.1 on one disc(oh and don`t forget the 4 commentaries which take up even more space). And a lot of people (including myself) are not prepared to sacrifice DTS and extras for the comfort of not having to get up after2 hours.

No kidding ...looking at television or movies like that is horrible. especially one like LOTR.

The new Two Towers trailers is available at this mirror link.

http://www.herr-der-ringe-film.de/hdr/media/videos/LotR-TwoTowers-Teaser.mov

Anyone who can sit through Lawrence, Godfather 2 or LoTR without getting up deserves a medal. I`d rather be comfortable, have a cuppa or beer and relieve myself when appropriate.

:D

With some of the films I buy I like to relieve myself where appropriate too;-)

All the best,

Andrew.