Lord of the Rings trilogy - open matte

[OperatorIV]

Hi, are these 16:9? Zoomed or cropped or both?

Is these the extended versions?

I'm not sure if they are or not, i doubt it, but ill have to do some research because i have so many different versions im not sure whats theatrical and whats extended anymore. (without breaking out a DVD     )

[Atreyo]

Regarding the colors in the Two Towers screenshots, these broadcastings have to be the theatrical cut versions.

[babouin]

I have the first two in MPEG-2 with a 17.4 Mb/s bitrate.
And the third one is airing tonight.
Theatrical of course.
They're from a french channel so there are a few hardcoded subs. They have commercials cuts and a logo in the bottom right corner. Unfortunately the logo is pretty much at the same place as the one from OperatorIV.

[Colek]

That's a lot od HDTV recordings coming in, combining them all could lead to logo-free and higher quality

[Jetrell Fo]

Code:

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The Return of the King:

Code:

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Codec: ac3
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I would certainly love to see these uploaded as is somewhere.

[spoRv]

Babouin, OperatorIV, Colek: please retain them all in your hard drives, as I have all of them with logo placed in another corner, so they would DEFINITELY be released WITHOUT logo...

as well as The Hobbit trilogy (theatrical)

And, the color grading of the open matte versions seems different from both theatrical and extended DVDs/BDs.

[babouin]

as well as The Hobbit trilogy (theatrical)

I didn't mention it yet, but I also have The Hobbit trilogy. From three different 1080i channels. And I think I know where to find a clean 720p version.

[spoRv]

I didn't mention it yet, but I also have The Hobbit trilogy. From three different 1080i channels. And I think I know where to find a clean 720p version.

Really? That's great, as they would improve a lot the delogo process... keep them safe as well!

[PDB]

If I remember correctly when I compared it, the Hobbit varied on the amount of picture it showed. I think some parts had a lot more picture while some were cropped (maybe Sfx?).

Anyway just a heads up. I know you are more then use to dealing with that spoRv.

[spoRv]

If I remember correctly when I compared it, the Hobbit varied on the amount of picture it showed. I think some parts had a lot more picture while some were cropped (maybe Sfx?).

Yep, most open matte versions are like that; there are very few "full" (all, or for the most part) open matte (the ones I recall now are Timeline, with just three shots cropped, and Showgirls, with two or three shots cropped), but I'm sure there are others; also, there are few that are mainly cropped, with a minor part open matte (HP 7 and Riddick comes to mind).