'Live From Abbey Road: Best Of Season One' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Ernie has reviewed 'Live From Abbey Road: Best Of Season One' He enjoyed the show and think this is a great sampling of performances. This Blu-ray has five star video, excellent audio, but few supplements. Still, this one comes highly recommended.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1819...bestof_s1.html

[ToddS]

Spot on review I rented this a while back and this is a great disc, fantastic mix, awesome recording, etc...Great variety of music as well.

[adiabatic]

I have the three-song Jamiroquai set from another source (Korean TV) and it's fantastic despite being DD2.0. I'd have loved to have the whole set on ths disc. It's a shame that we only get a "best of" for this.

The series has a great look. For the most part it seems to be shot with fast lenses and ambient (or minimal additional) light which gives an intimacy and richness to the video that you don't get in a typical performance video.

[Snowwhite]

Originally Posted by ToddS

Spot on review I rented this a while back and this is a great disc, fantastic mix, awesome recording, etc...Great variety of music as well.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[ToddS]

Originally Posted by Snowwhite

Couldn't have said it better myself!

I would love to see more of the season on BR and maybe they will give us more with a season 2 release. Hell, I would watch every episode with this kind of quality!

[Favelle]

1080i and it gets 5/5 for PQ. That's saying something!

[Kid Banana]

Have people in the USA actually heard of Kasabian or Nerina Pallot?

Kasabian are a decent live draw here in the UK but Pallot is still relatively obscure so I'm suprised they have made it onto a US highlights disc.

[Biggiesized]

Originally Posted by Favelle

1080i and it gets 5/5 for PQ. That's saying something!

It might have been shot 1080/30PsF, and therefore, while the straight transfer to Blu-ray will allow it to be technically 1080i60, it essentially is still 30 FPS. That kind of content will compress much easier than true 1080i60.

I'd link you the article to Wikipedia about progressive segmented frames, but apparently it's considered spamming when you have under 10 posts (forget the fact that I've been a registered member for months...).

Just type in 1080PsF and you'll find it.

[zaphod]

Hmmm.... never heard of the series and never heard of half the acts on the disc. This is one reason why I come here: to discover gems that otherwise would pass under my radar. So I'll probably pick this up .... wait for it ... once the price comes to reasonable levels, as usual. Thanks for the review!

[upgrayedd]

Originally Posted by Kid Banana

Have people in the USA actually heard of Kasabian or Nerina Pallot?

Kasabian are a decent live draw here in the UK but Pallot is still relatively obscure so I'm suprised they have made it onto a US highlights disc.

I have not heard of either Kasabian or Nerina, and I like to think of myself as sort of hip to UK entertainment.

[Blodskur]

Originally Posted by upgrayedd

I have not heard of either Kasabian or Nerina, and I like to think of myself as sort of hip to UK entertainment.

You thought wrong then.

[upgrayedd]

Originally Posted by Blodskur

You thought wrong then.

I should have added a caveat, I think I am sort of hip to UK entertainment as compared to everyone I know in the US. I have been since the 80's when I discovered The Young Ones. I am suspicious of people in wheelchairs since I found that gem Little Britian. Trust me on this, UK entertainment has to be Simon Pegg huge for most of the people I know to have any clue what is going on in UK entertainment, and they are missing out.

[Ernie Estrella]

Originally Posted by zaphod

Hmmm.... never heard of the series and never heard of half the acts on the disc. This is one reason why I come here: to discover gems that otherwise would pass under my radar. So I'll probably pick this up .... wait for it ... once the price comes to reasonable levels, as usual. Thanks for the review!

You're very welcome. It is a great series if you have access to The Sundance channel.

[Ernie Estrella]

Originally Posted by Favelle

1080i and it gets 5/5 for PQ. That's saying something!

I was wondering who would be the first to notice that. I thought for how it was shot it looked really great. There's a lot of lens effects used throughout each shoot so to expect something like an IMAX film is a bit unreasonable. It was a very artistically driven and there just a good blend of colors, details, and grain. Given what the original intentions were, I think the video was in high regard despite not being in 1080p. You could argue a 4.9 or 4.8 and since it's either a 4.5 or 5.0... I just gave it a 5 and called it a day.

[typ44q]

I have never heard of this series but I think I will get it with my next order from amazon.
Interesting that it has both DTS-MA and Dolby True HD soundtracks