Malick's "The New World - Extended Cut" arrives October 14!

One viewer's is pleasure is another movieger's pain.
Out of the blue, an announcement was just posted from Businesswire that Terrence Malick's already-legendary extended versionof his masterpiece, The New World, my favorite film of the decade so far, is coming to DVD on October 14.
Making the New World,
That means the film will now span 172 beauty-filled minutes. I'm deliriously happy at this news.
But the question remains: Is this just an extended cut from Warner Brothers, with the integration of several cut scenes? Or is it THE director's cut that Malick was reportedly crafting on his own?