Joe Bonamassa: Live from The Royal Albert Hall - Blu-ray Forum

Guy R · 10-28-2010, 05:07 PM

Joe Bonamassa: Live from The Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray

Does anyone have this BD yet? There is very little information anywhere concerning it. I have it on order at amazon.ca who seems to be having trouble getting it in stock. Anyway I'm tempted to cancel the order as the sound on the DVD IMO was subpar and I'm just afraid that they are going to utilize the same lossy track on this. Hopefully there is DTS MA and hopefully it is also an improvement over the audio on the DVD version. Anyone that can help me?

crazystix · 10-29-2010, 01:01 AM

I've got the BD.

The audio options are DTS Stereo and DTS Surround 5.1. The video really doesn't look much better than the DVD.

Also, of all my Blu-rays, this is the only one that doesn't have a menu pop-up function where you can make menu selections and change the song while the current song is still playing. You have to exit the current song and go to the main menu to select another song. The only real advantage that this BD has over the DVD version is that it is all on one disc and you don't have to change the disc at the intermission.

crazystix · 10-29-2010, 01:05 AM

PS - For the audio, the menu says that the audio options are DTS Stereo and DTS Surround 5.1. When you click the audio button on the remote during playback, the pop-up says "dts HD MA 2 channel" and "dts HD MA mulit-channel".

Guy R · 10-29-2010, 04:32 PM

Thanks Crazystix. If you have the DVD and the BD does the audio sound any better on the BD?

crazystix · 10-30-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Guy R

Thanks Crazystix. If you have the DVD and the BD does the audio sound any better on the BD?

Not really on my system. I usually listen to the stereo track through a soundbar and subwoofer.

DavePS3 · 03-27-2013, 07:33 PM

The second released BD (Beacon Theater) has better PQ and the newest release (Vienna Theater) has great PQ as well but I'm finding the camera work on this latter disc is not in synch with the DTS MA sound in too many spots. - just to put my two cents in here. As an interesting side note however, the disc runs perfectly fine in a firmware updated PS3 running Toslink into a receiver. Where I ran into problems, was running the disc on a new Sony BD player (wouldn't take the FW upgrade yet), into a Yamaha RXA3020 receiver (HDMI). It staggered , jittered, ran out of synch and paused slightly in many areas. Running the disc on an Arcam BD player into an Arcam AVR360(also HDMI) had no where near the Sony's problems but it did run out of synch through most of the disc.

10-28-2010, 05:07 PM	#1
Guy R Member Member since:Sep 2008 Home Theater Gallery:5 Blu-ray collection:381 Blu-ray reviews:17 Hardware reviews:1	Joe Bonamassa: Live from The Royal Albert Hall Joe Bonamassa: Live from The Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray Does anyone have this BD yet? There is very little information anywhere concerning it. I have it on order at amazon.ca who seems to be having trouble getting it in stock. Anyway I'm tempted to cancel the order as the sound on the DVD IMO was subpar and I'm just afraid that they are going to utilize the same lossy track on this. Hopefully there is DTS MA and hopefully it is also an improvement over the audio on the DVD version. Anyone that can help me? HTR-6260B Oppo BDP-93 Polk RTi70 Polk CSi40 Polk RTi38 Polk RT600i Velodyne CHT12 & SVS SVS PB10-NSD (with Sledge) Samsung 42" LCD Last edited by Deciazulado; 09-09-2011 at 11:14 AM.

10-29-2010, 04:32 PM	#4
Guy R Member Member since:Sep 2008 Home Theater Gallery:5 Blu-ray collection:381 Blu-ray reviews:17 Hardware reviews:1	Thanks Crazystix. If you have the DVD and the BD does the audio sound any better on the BD? HTR-6260B Oppo BDP-93 Polk RTi70 Polk CSi40 Polk RTi38 Polk RT600i Velodyne CHT12 & SVS SVS PB10-NSD (with Sledge) Samsung 42" LCD

03-27-2013, 07:33 PM	#6
DavePS3 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Toronto Home Theater Gallery:28 PS3 reviews:1 Trading Score:1	The second released BD (Beacon Theater) has better PQ and the newest release (Vienna Theater) has great PQ as well but I'm finding the camera work on this latter disc is not in synch with the DTS MA sound in too many spots. - just to put my two cents in here. As an interesting side note however, the disc runs perfectly fine in a firmware updated PS3 running Toslink into a receiver. Where I ran into problems, was running the disc on a new Sony BD player (wouldn't take the FW upgrade yet), into a Yamaha RXA3020 receiver (HDMI). It staggered , jittered, ran out of synch and paused slightly in many areas. Running the disc on an Arcam BD player into an Arcam AVR360(also HDMI) had no where near the Sony's problems but it did run out of synch through most of the disc. 2521 titles on disc... of those, 926 are Blu-Ray, 61 are 3D. Last edited by DavePS3; 03-28-2013 at 02:12 AM. Reason: update on issues.

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10-29-2010, 01:01 AM	#2
crazystix Junior Member Member since:Oct 2010	I've got the BD. The audio options are DTS Stereo and DTS Surround 5.1. The video really doesn't look much better than the DVD. Also, of all my Blu-rays, this is the only one that doesn't have a menu pop-up function where you can make menu selections and change the song while the current song is still playing. You have to exit the current song and go to the main menu to select another song. The only real advantage that this BD has over the DVD version is that it is all on one disc and you don't have to change the disc at the intermission.

10-29-2010, 01:05 AM	#3
crazystix Junior Member Member since:Oct 2010	PS - For the audio, the menu says that the audio options are DTS Stereo and DTS Surround 5.1. When you click the audio button on the remote during playback, the pop-up says "dts HD MA 2 channel" and "dts HD MA mulit-channel".