Lord of the Rings extended editions NOT in 4K HDR

My FOTR updated to 4K after a few weeks, delayed behind TT and ROTK.

What I do find it a bit surprising is that on the Apple TV app, when I looked onto the Middle-Earth bubble that says "now available in 4K HDR" around the "Browse by Collection" section, I noticed that they removed Return of the King and the LOTR Trilogy Extended Edition bundle from the list (you can still buy them by simply searching them, but something worth noting).

I bought the extended trilogy on Vudu a year or so ago because that’s where I first saw the deal. On Vudu I can watch in 4K uhd atmos, but when I go to watch on Apple TV app along with my other media, it’s not showing up as either extended or improved quality. I thought movies anywhere syncs this all up across platforms... hope it’s resolved soon.

So here’s where mine is at. It’s strange.

I have the Extended editions. They show up as 4K in most places between Ape TV Movies and TV app.

The weird part is when I actually play the movie and hit Menu the movie details show HD not 4K.

check out my screenshots for Two Towers.

I tried signing out, restarting. Nothing so far. guess it’s a waiting game?

for all I know the video is playing at 4K and the label is wrong. I can’t tell.

I watched Fellowship and it did look less green. :)

anyone else?

All five of my extended editions except An Unexpected Journey have upgraded, even though I bought that on original release at full price like the others.

Apple Support has been spectacularly unhelpful here — spent an hour on chat with them last week only to have them entirely misunderstand the issue and suggest that WB had chosen not to make the AUJ upgrade available for free even though all the others were.

I exchanged about 6 emails with Apple regarding Return of the King not being in 4K. I was passed to a manager. I sent screen shots showing it said it was in 4K, and then when it went in my library it suddenly said HD. They have sent my case to an Apple Engineer to look into. I will let you all know what happens but they said it may take a few days.

From my experience, if your library copy says 'HD' then it will only play in HD (i.e. it's an accurate label). If it says '4K', then devices capable of playing 4K content will stream the 4K version (I can tell if LotR is 4K by the remastered image, but I'm less certain for The Hobbit).

But yeah, endlessly annoying that the TV app on Mac has no kind of Inspector like QuickTime does. Even the library's List View only shows 'HD', even when 4K is available (and even when filtering 4K content!)

It’s odd that the VUDU app has all 6 EE movies that I own in 4K but only display as HD in Apple TV and iTunes.

I’m not buying these again. Especially since next summer there will be yet another release.

How much money do they need from us? Jeez

Not sure if this is just being slow but, I had all three of the extended versions and they now all show as being in 4k.

I’ve bought all extended editions of the hobbit and lotr in the UK, 2 of the hobbit films have upgraded to 4K and only 1 lotr has upgraded

Not all countries have the extras. In Denmark we dont have them either :( which really sucks, since LOTR has some of the best extras ever produced for films.

See my most recent comment about this.

Same here. I actually didn't know Apple would upgrade to 4K for free so I bought the blu-ray. I synced Movies Anywhere with Apple and everything shows up as 4K in my library except RotK extended. Really weird.

I’m still waiting for the movies to be upgraded here in The Netherlands, in the Apple TV store section the Theatrical Cuts already show as 4K but I own the Extended cuts but those are nowhere to be found, I hope Apple/Warner fixes this fast