Shout Factory releasing 1973 Billion Dollar Tour for Alice Cooper

[jw]

Streets Sept 14 2010

Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper Blu-ray

[nf0603]

nice! I am all for the release of more older concert films on Blu. I'd love to see Alice in his prime on the format. Alice has been pretty good at putting stuff out on there so far.

[DaleDark]

Any BD of the original Alice Cooper band is welcome news. That said, I'm hoping that like the DVD, you can watch just the concert footage. The movie is painful to watch.

[DCSholtis]

Theatre Of Death from the 2009 tour is also coming to Blu-Ray. Pre-order for that is up at Amazon.com as well.

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by DaleDark

Any BD of the original Alice Cooper band is welcome news. That said, I'm hoping that like the DVD, you can watch just the concert footage. The movie is painful to watch.

Looks like that is one option available. Plus, 5.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack.

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Product Description
Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper is one of the greatest rock movies of all time. The concert film, which features the original band lineup in the middle of the legendary 1973 Billion Dollar Babies Tour is now making its Blu-ray debut:newly restored, and featuring 5.1 DTS Master audio, 1080p picture, plus a multitude of extras, including movie-length commentary by Alice himself. The film that out-grosses them all as it was originally billed is back, looking and sounding better than ever.

Featuring 13 Alice Cooper classics recorded live in concert:
1. Hello, Hooray
2. Billion Dollar Babies
3. Elected
4. I'm Eighteen
5. Raped And Freezin'
6. No More Mr. Nice Guy
7. My Stars
8. Unfinished Sweet
9. Sick Things
10. Dead Babies
11. I Love The Dead
12. School's Out
13. Under My Wheels
14. And a studio performance of The Lady Is A Tramp

Special Features:
1. Audio Commentary by Alice Cooper
2. Play-Concert-Only Option
3. Deleted Scene and Outtakes
4. Original Theatrical Trailer and Radio Spots=20
5. Poster Gallery With Original Promotional Material
5. Band Biographies
6. DVD Easter Eggs

[nefilim]

have the dvd - probably will upgrade. depending on PQ/AQ.

[RazorBlade]

Lossless and I'm sold.

[SymbioticFunction]

Is this region friendly? Or strictly region A only? I'd love to own it but live in the UK.

[rnranimal]

I know this is a long dead thread, but in case anyone comes across it looking for info on this blu release...

The video very much appears to be upscaled from standard definition. I was very disappointed to find this out. I've had the DVD since first released but now have an HD projector/surround setup and thought I'd treat myself to it in HD. When I put it in, I immediately could tell something wasn't right. There are obvious upscaling chroma (stair-stepping/jagged edges) artifacts. So then I took screenshots from the DVD and blu-ray in VLC and compared them. There wasn't a single bit of extra detail on the blu-ray. I mean none. Having no extra detail and the chroma artifacts make this less enjoyable than the DVD. Now the audio is lossless which is great. But strangely a small portion of the intro is actually lossy sourced (confirmed in spectral graph). I have no idea what they did there to cause that.

I e-mailed Shout Factory about my upscaling concerns. I was polite but received no response.

So I cannot recommend this blu-ray unless the lossless audio is the priority and the chroma artifacts won't bother you. I'm personally going to eventually they to couple the DVD video with the blu-ray audio. Wish they would do this right and put out another blu-ray release but that's probably not going to happen.