If you had one day to live, I don't think you'd be worrying your namby-pamby asses .
hold that thought and have a nice day
Well, that was a nice way of putting it. If that were the case, then we should all just get pirated copies. I believe the point of advancing technology is to get the best out of a product. The LOTR movie is probably the pinnacle of the Fantasy genre, and an extraordinary achievement to the art of special effects. We would be doing the director, its actors, its production people a gross disrespect if we were able to only appreciate a movie DVD that was not up to par with their vision of a tecnical masterpiece.
I am not a collector, but it matters that a DVD comes from a quality reliable source (these are usually, but not always, R1's), sealed, containing sound quality that the director wants us to hear and feel, visuals that match the productions' vision and an assurance that what you get is the best that storytelling has to offer. I'd spend my last waking second just to touch that.
Peace out, dudes. You have your own opinions and I respect that too, as much as I hope you'd respect mine.