There are practical people who prefer the movie crammed in 1 disc by sacrificing the AV quality, and there are those who prioritize the quality and don't mind the movie-in-two-discs thing.
It is what it is. Y'all don't have to waste time arguing 'bout it. It's like people arguing which is better, man or woman. It's no use.

My only complain is: if the bonus features are gonna be in SD, WHY they still split it over 2(or 3?) discs? I can understand if the feature-discs are DVDs, but if they are BDs, I can't accept that.

Agreed. The extras are/were SD and they could/should have put them onto BD's (at SD) to reduce the amount of discs. 15 discs is too much.
You might argue that if the extras are in SD, why bother including them (or the commentaries) in this BD set at all as any fan will already have them.
Or produce a cheaper, movie only box set of the EE's.

I wonder if they'll do something similar to the Alien box set in that if you eject the disc (after part 1) a screensaver(y) film related/themed screen will appear, disappear when part 2 is inserted and go straight into back into the film.

I've stopped wondering about that now.

Wilson Bros wrote: We wouldn't. Blu-Ray is supposed to be the current pinnacle of A/V technology and we wouldn't want to have the audio/video quality compromised over squeezing each film onto one disc.

The Wilson Bros
Agreed.

You guys that are whining about two discs for each movie need to take more than a few seconds to think about why. Given that the set is to include a DTS-HD Master Audio track and assuming the video is encoded at a nice bit rate, all it takes is some simple math to see that there is no way these particular 210, 220 and 250 minute films would fit on one dual-layer disc without a large drop in the quality that most consumers have come to expect from Blu-ray, and that isn't even taking high definition menus, other audio tracks and subtitles into consideration.

Intergalactic Ponce: I wonder if they'll do something similar to the Alien box set in that if you eject the disc (after part 1) a screensaver(y) film related/themed screen will appear, disappear when part 2 is inserted and go straight into back into the film.
That would be a really nice touch. Next to Star Trek:TOS, that Alien set is my favorite thing on Blu-ray.

Dizagaox wrote: Should have just released this one first. They really frakked up releasing the theatrical cuts, no wonder they're selling for just £5 ($8) in the UK, nobody wants them even for that little.

What they should have done is combined these BluRay releases.  Have the theatrical and extended cuts via seamless branching (keeping them split across two discs if necessary), and used BluRay  to combine all the standard definition special features across less discs.

I will be getting this set - it doesn't worry me if I have to change a disc half way through if I get the best quality possible.
Although it 'almost' feels like New Line just simply kept the masters they had for the DVDs and simply transferred them to BD...

Bring on the 100GB Blurays! That will fix it!
Or you could always get 2 BD drives in your computer and sync them to play one disc after the other....