TheHutt writes: During their TotalHD press conference at CES, Warner announced that New Line was working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy for both HD DVD and Blu-ray. While they did confirm that the titles were in the works, no details were given. A source close to the matter gave us a few details of the upcoming release, these include:

• Main feature will be a single DL disc on both HD DVD and Blu-ray. (no word if it will be a TotalHD disc (TotalDVD is a double-sided combination of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray)
• The movies will be the Theatrical Versions of each film.
• Both discs will be encoded using VC1
• These will be the first titles to use Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Audio
• Due to bandwidth constraints, as of now there will be no IME (”In Movie Experience”) like features.

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