Simon Young
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I think that anyone worried about the picture quality of the 4-disc release should take a close look at New Line's Platinum Series release of Se7en: it had a Dolby Digital track, a DTS track, a stereo track, three commentaries and a 5.1 isolated score. At 127 minutes long, the movie still managed to look stunning. Now, if you imagine that it had a fourth commentary instead of a stereo track, and one additional 5.1 track, it would have a specification all but identical to the upcoming release of Fellowship. Then remember that each disc of Fellowship will contain an average of 104 minutes of video, rather than 127 minutes.
As long as the size of that extra 5.1 track is equal to or less than 23 minutes of decent video, we should have a release that looks as good as Se7en did.
If I've got it all wrong, please go ahead and correct me. I don't really understand all the talk of peak bitrates and average bitrates, but on a simple scale of comparison, I don't think Fellowship should look at all bad.
As long as the size of that extra 5.1 track is equal to or less than 23 minutes of decent video, we should have a release that looks as good as Se7en did.
If I've got it all wrong, please go ahead and correct me. I don't really understand all the talk of peak bitrates and average bitrates, but on a simple scale of comparison, I don't think Fellowship should look at all bad.