One resolution to rule them all: Lord of the Rings trilogy coming to 4K Blu-ray

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One resolution to rule them all: Lord of the Rings trilogy coming to 4K Blu-ray

$90 for each trilogy, more for "gift" sets, reportedly coming December 1.

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Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, arguably the greatest home theater showcase outside of documentaries like Planet Earth, is finally coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray.

 

Details emerged late Monday via Den of Geek, whose Instagram account posted leaked images from Best Buy-exclusive listings for the trilogy's SteelBook version. While Best Buy store listings were soon found by enterprising fans, those were eventually taken down, but they were followed by nonexclusive versions at Amazon: $90 for the normal trilogy, spread across nine Blu-ray discs, or $140 for a "gift set" version, which collects all of the normal cases in a larger, book-like case that may or may not include a replica of the One Ring.

 

Whichever set you buy, you can expect both theatrical and extended cuts of each film in the set, along with "digital code" redemption options for both versions of each film. Should you be on the lookout for a 4K UHD Blu-ray player, all disc-based Xbox consoles since the Xbox One S (including the brand new Series X, but not the disc-less Series S) support the standard, while PS5 is the only PlayStation console to do so.

 

Unfortunately, listings at Amazon in both the United States and Europe currently lack back-of-box explainers about what to expect technically, including clarification about current-gen surround sound options like Dolby Atmos or DTS-HD. There's also the matter of color correction applied to the original trilogy's Extended Edition that fans previously called into question; we wonder whether those changes will either persist or be further modified for the sake of either HDR-10 or Dolby Vision tone-mapping. Whenever Warner Bros. gets around to formally announcing the set, we'll break down the technical bits in an update.

 

Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy is getting the up-res treatment as well: $90 for the standard 4K UHD Blu-ray set (with two discs per film, offering both theatrical and extended cuts), with no sign of its own "gift set" version just yet.

 

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One resolution to rule them all: Lord of the Rings trilogy coming to 4K Blu-ray

 

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