LIVE AT WEMBLEY FIRST NIGHT RELEASED IN FULL SEPTEMBER 5th

Not wanting to start a fight but this should get a BluRay release.
Whether it was shot on video is irrelevent. BluRay allows for a more exact copy of the original master tapes with less compression and higher resolutuion. A bit like cassette vs CD.
Besides it was shot on PRO video 1 inch tape not consumer VHS.

Not a major release but a very decent effort. New sound, enhanced pictures (probably due to not having the diffenet camera angles taking up the room on the disk) and a new full concert.

Hopefully we'll see 'new' product once Island see sales, profit and a return on their investment.

If it would be released as blu-ray it wolud be compared to other todays blu-rays. And only result would be: loss. It can't handle rivalry with other todays blu-ray releases. Montreal hd source can, Wembley sd source - can't. So Wembley blu-ray will never happen. QP can't lose.

Zebonka12 wrote: Ah .. hurrrrrrr.  This is gonna be one for bittorrent I'm afraid.  I wouldn't mind watching the Friday show, but I can't really justify buying Wembley again - I've seen it a billion times anyway.
Totally agree. I'm not gonna buy Wembley again. But I'm gonna download the Friday concert definitely.

Would that be the same QPL who released several boxsets of CD singles years after people stopped buying them? And the same QPL who released a video of a gig, where one of the cameras hag a big dirty mark on it because the lense wasn't cleaned? lol
Blu ray isn't in itself a so called high definition format. It is merely another storage device with a far higher storage capacity. It's been marketed as "High definition", but the discs could be used to just load more content onto them. There's a massive gulf between the quality of the existing Wembley DVD and what blu ray could offer, that you could issue this set on blu ray with both nights and extras on one disc and the quality would still be much better. Saying so called standard defition analogue can't benefit from a blu ray release is like saying vintage blues recordings don't benefit from CD releases and should be only released on cassette or minidisc.

Wembley would look better on BR. The process of taking a PRO quality video tape and compressing it to fit on a DVD results in picture loss. Not resolution loss as such just a cetain amount of degredation inherent to the copying process and DVD limitation. The digitisation of the analogue source losses quality. Think master tape to MP3 compared to WAV file.
BR allows a higher bitrate and so less compromises are made and the image is closer to the original. It won't make it better, you can't gain quality but you can limit its loss.
UPscaling a DVD to 1920x1080 either by the player or TV does nothing for the picture only present the picture to the LCD TV at it native resolution and so looks crisper. All LCD have a resolution that gives the best picture and others result in a slightly blurred image. Try it on your monitors.
BR is captured at 1920x1080, no upscaling required. No guessing by the player or TV where to merge the pixels to fill the gaps created by going 720x576 to 1920x1080.
Result is quality very close to the master tape PLUS room for extras, multi camera angles etc.

Then again in these days of itunes and people listening to music through crappy earphones perhaps quality doesn't matter anymore?

If this is Island's idea of a mere re-release, I like it. They could have just stamped the Island logo on top of the old DVDs but they did this.
What's next? A Rare Live re-release that is actually good?
Full versions of Budapest, Japan 82/85, etc.?

I can't wait for their first exclusive release. Hopefully it will be something from the seventies, like Rainbow, or one of the Hammy nights.

Wiley wrote:

"If this is Island's idea of a mere re-release, I like it. They could have just stamped the Island logo on top of the old DVDs but they did this."

Exactly.  Between the exhibition, documentary, (some of the) bonus tracks and now the Friday Wembley show, it's been a damn good 2011.  We've got plenty to look forward to.

"Full versions of Budapest, Japan 82/85, etc.?"

Full Tokyo 82 is unlikely.  It doesn't seem like they have the multi-tracks, and Play The Game and Body Language are unreleaseable (is that even a word?) with Freddie's voice cracks.  With the three new bonus tracks from this show, I think we've got all we're ever going to hear from this show officially.

"Hopefully it will be something from the seventies, like Rainbow, or one of the Hammy nights."

Hammersmith is already mixed and ready to go, as evidenced by the BBC broadcast in 2009.  And it looks like they've been working on Hyde Park too, judging by the bits seen in the documentary.  Brian said they're working on Rainbow ... so any of these are possible.  For the first time in a decade, I'm feeling very optimistic on this front.

Lets hope the reason for limited releases was the EMI divorce and Island will want to get a return on their investment quickly by releasing NEW product.

Sir GH wrote: Wiley wrote:

"If this is Island's idea of a mere re-release, I like it. They could have just stamped the Island logo on top of the old DVDs but they did this."

Exactly.  Between the exhibition, documentary, (some of the) bonus tracks and now the Friday Wembley show, it's been a damn good 2011.  We've got plenty to look forward to.

"Full versions of Budapest, Japan 82/85, etc.?"

Full Tokyo 82 is unlikely.  It doesn't seem like they have the multi-tracks, and Play The Game and Body Language are unreleaseable (is that even a word?) with Freddie's voice cracks.  With the three new bonus tracks from this show, I think we've got all we're ever going to hear from this show officially.

"Hopefully it will be something from the seventies, like Rainbow, or one of the Hammy nights."

Hammersmith is already mixed and ready to go, as evidenced by the BBC broadcast in 2009.  And it looks like they've been working on Hyde Park too, judging by the bits seen in the documentary.  Brian said they're working on Rainbow ... so any of these are possible.  For the first time in a decade, I'm feeling very optimistic on this front.
SirGH, don't forget about Hammersmith '79 too. Apparently that one would make the best blu ray release out of all of them.

Wembley again? This is ridiculous why couldn't they release the entire Friday show back in 2003 a rip off again

Queenman!! wrote:

A bit simple DVDcover. They had no other picture from Wembley.????  A bit poor.
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Is it confirmed this is the DVD sleeve?  Or is it just to illustrate the press release, perhaps?

Looking at the content, it appears we're not getting a CD version of the first night, at least not yet.

Limited Deluxe Edition: 2 DVD + 2 CD (Digipak)

DVD 1: Saturday Night
DVD 2: Friday Night + Documentaries
CD 1: Saturday (Disc 1)
CD 2: Saturday (Disc 2)

No biggie ... it's not hard to do a DVD > CD rip of the audio.

Well, I am absolutely thrilled with this news!  Since seeing the snippets of footage on the 2003 release, I've been dying to get hold of the rest. 

And to the guy (drJones) who said the negative reactions would have been different if it had been shared for free here on QZ....SPOT ON.  Great analysis of the moaning faced vultures!