Can't find some prominent music releases on MVI, Blu-ray, HD DVD, and CD that we previewed recently? The dates, they keep a-changin':
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Hot on the heels of the big Led Zeppelin announcement (see my post below) comes word that David Gilmour's imminent DVD, Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Columbia), will also be available on both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Each of the three formats will appear in a two-disc Special Edition.
Whereas the standard DVD is scheduled for September 18, the Blu-ray version will follow two weeks later, on October 2. No official word yet on the HD DVD — not surprising, since that format is the enemy of Sony, parent company of Columbia. In fact, Columbia's corporate Sell Sheet makes no mention of the HD DVD, although yesterday's press release does (see below).
By my count, that makes 7 music titles that are appearing across all formats: U2's Rattle and Hum (see comparison review), Alice Cooper's Live at Montreux 2005, Toto's Live in Amsterdam, Pat Metheny Group's The Way Up: Live (see comparison review), Nine Inch Nails' Beside You in Time (stay tuned for my comparison review in the October print edition of S&V and then in the Web site's "High-Def/Surround" reviews), the Led Zep title, and now Gilmour.
The Albert Hall release itself should be extraordinary: a 2½-hour concert film shot in high-def by David Mallet plus 2¾ hours of extras, including 14 bonus tracks and 3 documentaries.
See the press release below for complete details. —Ken Richardson
