DVD Review: Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux [Blu-ray]: Return to Forever: Movies & TV

May18

DVD Review: Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux [Blu-ray]: Return to Forever: Movies & TV

Posted by admin | on 18 May, 03:09 AM

DVD Review: Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux [Blu-ray]: Return to Forever: Movies & TVTheir Return is Forever awesome!,

By STLBlues -

The Show: I don’t know how to describe these guys. Their musicianship is just beyond excellent. If you’re a fan of Return to Forever or just any one individual, you must have this show. Their performance blows me away. I saw their concert in St. Louis (USA) and I’m so happy to have one of their shows on Blu-Ray. The Montreux portion is not the entire show, but close to it. The disc contains the entire first electric set and most of the second acoustic set. It’s running time is 1 hour, 49 minutes and 16 seconds.

Video Quality: Phenomenal! It’s just ridiculously sharp and clear. In some ways, watching this on Blu-Ray is better than actually being there. The Blu-Ray has a 1080i MPEG-4 AVC @ 26 Mbps encoding on a 50GB disc.

Audio Quality: Again, Phenomenal! The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (24bit/48kHz) track is just so crisp, clear and enveloping. I do have a complaint though….Al Di Meola’s guitar is mixed too heavily in the left rear surround channel. So I’m watching him play in front of me on the screen, but he sounds like he’s behind me more than in front. I don’t like that. The other 3 guys are placed well in the mix, especially Stanley Clarke and Lenny White. The LPCM track (24bit/48kHz) is also phenomenal when I want to enjoy straight stereo. The Dolby 5.1 track (16bit/48kHz/640kbps)….I don’t plan on listening to that one.

Extras: So this made me mad. The 5 bonus tracks that we get from the July 31, 2008 Clearwater, Florida show are nice to have, but the entire time they placed different angles of video in a box pattern on the screen. It doesn’t even fill in the entire screen either. It’s very annoying in my opinion. Nothing like the experience you get from the Montreux portion of the disc. It’s running time is 41 minutes and 36 seconds.

Final Thoughts: This is a must-have Blu-Ray. Unreal quality all around. I gave 4 stars, but I would have easily given 5 if not for the bonus tracks being like they are.
Search Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux [Blu-ray]: Return to Forever: Movies & TV from AmAzon

[asa]B0024EWOYK[/asa]