The 39 steps part 1 You can

The 39 steps part 1

You can find the full press release after the jump along with a rundown of the premiere schedule. And if you need more information on any of the new series, be sure to check out our previous post from The CW s upfronts presentation back in May. Why? Create a profile, comment painlessly, and be eligible for contests! Click here for more Home Tech content! A few years ago at PAX, Tycho from Penny Arcade had the opportunity to brush Felicia DayÁs hair. ÁIt was, Á he said, Álike brushing a unicorn. Á Yesterday, I finally got the chance to open up my Lord of the Rings: Extended Edition Blu-ray set. And if grooming Felicia Day is like brushing a unicorn, then opening up this package can only be described as undressing some equally alluring mythical creature. IÁm not kidding even a little bit. There simply isn t another Blu-ray release that has haunted my dreams like this one. Not Star Wars. Not The Big Lebowski. Because, let s face it: the Dude would be just as Dudely on VHS, but half the experience of The Lord of the Rings is the audiovisual splendor. Not even the theatrical versions of The Lord of the Rings quenched my thirst. If the truncated versions of the films weren t bad enough, their lackluster presentations at first bat on Blu-ray only made things worse. But here we the 39 steps part 1 it: the trilogy to end all trilogies in its full and proper form, with a spiffy new transfer and all of the extras from the extended edition and limited theatrical/extended edition combo DVD set. Was it worth the wait? Well, I still contend that the wait was artificial. These are the Blu-rays we should have had to begin with. But after digging through all fifteen discs in this collection, I m a helluva a lot less grumpy about the delay than I was before. Mostly because the films themselves look very nearly perfect. Gone is the vast inconsistency between the quality of Fellowship of the Ring and the other two films. Gone is the flat, digital-looking presentation that marred the theatrical version on BD; these new transfers look positively unprocessed which is a bit misleading, because every frame of the films was digitally manipulated in one for or another before release, but for all that, they look wonderfully film-like and utterly cinematic here. Detail is downright phenomenal the 39 steps part 1 in contrast to the theatrical versions. Richer contrasts lend an incredible amount of depth to the image that was lacking before. The edginess on long shots is greatly diminished. On the whole, it s hard to imagine the films looking much better.