NMA Blu-rays...?

[Master Ray]

On another bands Forum (a Forum where I have turned a lot of people onto NMA) it has been asked why NMA have never put out a Blu-Ray release.  Now, personally, I've never seen the need for something like that... the DVD's do me just fine.  But I was wondering if any of my fellow friends ever thought the same thing.  You know, a few concerts in a big Hi-Def thing....

I have no idea how much it would cost to remaster some old show into a Blu thing.  Also no idea if anybody here would be remotely interested!  Just thought I'd ask the question... another silly question from your old pal MR!   

[Viv Savage]

None of the concerts were recorded or mastered in anything like blu-ray quality. The more recent ones were all done in DVD quality, the older ones were done in the tv standard quality of the time. Turning them into blu-rays is an almost pointless exercise in that in some cases there isn't the source footage to go back to, the old versions wouldn't stand up and essentially you're just creating a bigger file size rather than improving the quality of the footage itself.

You might as well buy a blu-ray player that can upscale from DVD (and most of them do this anyway with varying degrees of success) as that will give you about as good a quality as you can get anyway :-)

[cthulhu]

Well, there is a blu with new model army on it, The New Model Army Story: Between Dog and Wolf was released also on blu.

As Viv said, image wise there would be almost no gain from upscaling old material to a blu. But a blu has much space and i could imagine a compilation of footage with much background info, picture galerie or even a commentary track, etc., but i don't see a real need for this.

For a new release like a new live-show the use of a blu would make sense because there you can have lossless audiotracks, but again that would be best used with a multi-track audio layout, sometimes it has a cool amtmosphere if the mixing is well done, but mostly i would prefer the stereo-mix anyway.

I like the look and editing of the Between Wine and Blood Live Package (this one i didn't find in the discography section of the homepage?) much more than the Live 161203 footage, though that seems to be the biggest production camera wise, because it was much less those typical "close up-fast editing" type of thing", which i don't like.

To me, what i want when i see a live concert, is the whole stage and the crowd. And the live-editing should be cued and if possible follow the songs. So when there is a guitar solo than you can give me surely a nice close-up, but not randomly, unrythmically edited and not motivated shots of fingers, only the fromtman, etc.

For the future i would like to have a blu release that uses the space to have some extras, but not because of a better image quality.

[Master Ray]

Thanks for that, cthhulu, I didn't know that BDAW was on Blu.  And I would be up for an NMA BR if, as you put it, the content was supported by the format if you see what I mean.

Viv, to be honest, that was the answer I expected.  I own a great many Blu-Rays, some of them are absolutely wonderful to look at and some of them (especially older stuff)... not so much.  Or, to put it another way, no better than a much cheaper DVD!  But thanks for taking the time to get back to me.

Ah, what the hell, apparently physical media is dead and a few years from now we'll be doing some Black Mirror thing where we put something onto our heads and download it straight into our brains...