The high definition, Blu Ray disc version of the stunning live recording. A must!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11831 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-26
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 310 minutes

DVD Description
Tracklist: Disc 1 1 Speak To Me 2 Breathe 3 Time 4 Breathe (reprise) 5 Castellorizon 6 On An Island featuring Crosby & Nash 7 The Blue featuring Crosby & Nash 8 Red Sky At Night 9 This Heaven 10 Then I Close My Eyes featuring Robert Wyatt 11 Smile 12 Take A Breath 13 A Pocketful Of Stones 14 Where We Start 15 Shine On You Crazy Diamond featuring Crosby & Nash 16 Fat Old Sun 17 Coming Back To Life 18 High Hopes 19 Echoes 20 Wish You Were Here 21 Find The Cost Of Freedom featuring Crosby & Nash 22 Arnold Layne featuring David Bowie 23 Comfortably Numb featuring David Bowie

Disc 2 From the Royal Albert Hall: 1 Wot's…Uh The Deal 2 Dominoes 3 Wearing The Inside Out featuring Richard Wright 4 Arnold Layne featuring Richard Wright 5 Comfortably Numb featuring Richard Wright Documentary: Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine From the Summer Tour 2006: Dark Globe Live From Abbey Road: Astronomy Domine From the AOL Sessions: This Heaven From the BBC Mermaid Theatre concert: 1 Castellorizon 2 On An Island 3 The Blue 4 Take A Breath 5 High Hopes Documentary: The Making Of `On An Island' Documentary: The West Coast Music Videos: 1 On An Island 2 Smile Island Jam 2007 Photo Gallery

Synopsis
Recorded in May 2006, this electrifying concert include 23 tracks, culminating in a performance of 'Comfortably Numb' featuring David Bowie. Other tracks include 'Speak To Me', 'Then I Close My Eyes', 'Pocketful Of Stones', 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Find The Cost Of Freedom'.

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Customer Reviews

David Gilmour
I got Blu Ray few days ago and play it on my PS3 and Samsung HD ready (32" LCD on 1080p) ... Picture is not so good on the concert, but on Disc 2 is much better. Sound on both Blu Ray's are perfect. By my opinion, on the concert blu ray has too much grains on the picture, so there is no big different between DVD and Blu Ray (only in details, must say). So I am not disapointed by this product (sound is very good), but expect little bit more of video quality and difference between DVD and Blu Ray.

Great show, pity about the video quality
Musical Production 5 Stars
Audio Production 5 Stars
Video Production 2 Stars
Video Quality 0 Stars - Crap!
Average 3 Stars.

Viewed using a Sony Blu Ray 300 Player and Mitsubishi 1080p projector with approx 84" screen diagonal.

As somebody who has been a fan of Pink Floyd since they visited my University in 1968, when I was a student, and have learnt David's guitar solo in Comfortably Numb (thanks Total Guitar!) for my own enjoyment I feel I am entitled to express my utter disgust at the video quality of this production.

But first let me say that David, his guests, the musicians and his audio crew have done a fantastic job and I enjoyed the Blu Ray DVD when I closed my eyes. No Pink Floyd fan could possibly be disappointed by the music and audio production. I am envious of those who had the opportunity to see the concert live; it must have been a fabulous experience.

So what's wrong with the video then?
Just about everything you could imagine.

There are several cameras that should never have had their power switched on but instead they should have been thrown in the nearest skip. The camera in the choir directly behind David and the one in the gallery directly in front have so much visual noise on them that you have the impression you are watching through a very dirty window when the director switches to them. There are several other cameras with the same problem. It is very obvious when the director does a cross fade from one of these cameras to a different, quieter, camera. Same light level, same image; this is an example of an appalling video production. I am not surprised that the name of the video production company doesn't appear anywhere on the credits.

There are several cases where the camera shots of David are hugely over exposed, not as some form of special effect because if it was, the director wouldn't cut to a correctly exposed camera and back again. Either the director or the camera engineer should be hung, drawn and quartered.

The director had to be using a small monitor, because tight shots of a hand strumming guitar strings don't work on an HD 84" display; they just make you feel nauseous. The director has yet to learn that on high resolution images you have to let the subject's movements and the viewer's eyes do much more of the work. He should go watch a 70mm IMAX film. He'd learn something.
... and I hate being constantly distracted by the director's ego; this is a concert not a video clip or a trailer.

There are times when the director thinks that he is more important than the show he is supposed to be presenting, cutting camera sources so wildly that you have no idea what the actual visual effect on stage was supposed to be.

Hello! I didn't buy this Blu Ray to see what an immature clown the director was, I bought it to see David Gilmour's production. ( Just as some journalists today seem to feel they have an obligation not just to report news but to create news, directors like this one seem to feel that their manic antics somehow benfit the production. Here's a message to the director. They don't! )

I watched the Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains The Same, Blu Ray, before this one. At no time did I remember being distracted by the quality of this 1976 production; I only remembered enjoying it. So I went back and took a second look at the Led Zepplin Blu Ray and sure enough, there was very little noise (film grain) and no unintended over-exposure and consistent image quality regardless of which camera was being used in the Madison Square Garden production. In 1976 this could only have been made on film stock. The fact that a 1976 production, that has sat in the film cans for more than thirty years, was visual superior to a 2006 HD video production is a damning condemnation of the video production company responsible for this garbage.

Would I recommend somebody to buy this Blu Ray? No. Buy the regular DVD and watch it on a standard definition TV or a laptop. Viewing it on anything bigger than this will just disappoint. If you feel compelled to buy the Blu Ray and view it on anything bigger than a regular 20" TV then be prepared to feel that it would have been better to have draped a muslin cheese cloth over the screen so that the complete show would have the same crappy, but consistent, image quality.

A wonderful production
A must for any Gilmour and/or Pink Floyd fan. Playing through the correct equipment this Blu-ray disc gives excellent quality picture and fantastic sound. I run this through a PS3/Sony DGS910/Bravia and and the results are stunning. Highly recommended.