Blu-ray music discs - 5.1 Surround vs Stereo

[Codyblaze]

Originally Posted by Bruce Morrison

Thanks very much, that answers both my questions and confirms what I'd understood!

I'd just be interested to know when shooting concerts and opera performances in high definition digital video became the norm. I've done a quick survey of performances of my favourite operas released on Blu-ray so far, and the earliest one dates from 2002. So would that be around the time when shooting in HD digital video started to be the standard approach for the major production companies?

Not that I'm much of an opera fan, but the majority of the concert films I own were shot on film, not VHS. Thus they look incredible on Blu (there are only three that I've updated, Gimme Shelter, Monterrey Pop and John Mayer). I would imagine concerts filmed for TV (such as for PBS) would be VHS sourced, and wouldn't benefit from the blu upgrade, but anything on film should see an improvement. The three concerts I've upgraded show great improvments in PQ over their DVD counterparts, but what really shines is the AQ. Monterrey Pop is just night and day with the difference.