Has the Les Miserables Dream Cast Superbit been delayed? (1 Viewer)

[Steve Noll]

HDNet has been running a HD version of the Les Miz Dream Cast Concert. It was filmed in HD and presented at 1.78:1. Audio was 2.0 stereo. My understanding was they used a Japanese analog high def system and then mastered to a D2 digital master. Pic was good, certainly true high-def, but nothing spectacular. I'd love to see this master used for a DVD.

I had to Tivo it, since they seem to run it at 4 in the morning.

Steve

 

[Mike Frezon]

How THIS for a thread resurrection?! Superbit, to boot!
Next week (2-19-2008) the following is scheduled for release: Les Miserables - The 10th Anniversary Dream Cast in Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall (1998)
It is a two-disc set (pictured below). Amazon's listing says it is 1.78:1. But does anyone know what the audio specs are? Was the original show only recorded in stereo?

 

[TonyD]

i would love to see an original stage version of this on home video, without a dreamcast and without just all the cast members just standing on the stage and singing their roles.
i guess that means i want the actual stage production on film and not a concert version.

 

[Mike Frezon]

More info from amazon.com...but still no word on the audio specs. :frowning:
Interesting that it's going to be a single-sided disc with the entire concert.

--David Horiuchi

 

[Mike Frezon]

DVD Pacific and DeepDiscount both list the new release as "Dolby Digital 2.0" or "stereo" respectively.

 

[seanbob]

I have a question about the transfer for anyone that has purchased the new 2-disc version of this concert:

I started watching it and at about 2:34 minutes into it, Colm Wilkinson (Valjean) steps forward to the mic for the first time and, of all things, he "fuzzes." What I mean by this is that his entire body turns into a bunch of shifting digital artifacts for a split second. Perhaps I simply received a bad disc, but I am more convinced that it is a problem with the encoding or the original source material.

Does anybody else have this problem on their concert DVD? Is the cause of the problem known? Any responses would be welcome.

Thanks!

 

[Mike Frezon]

I guess I'll keep resurrecting this thread every four years...

But look what is showing up on Amazon for release next week (unfortunately DVD-only). it looks like they have finally produced a 5.1 version of the 10th anniversary concert:


I'd have been thrilled to see this news in 2004 or 2008. But why not an HD release in 2012? Then you could get a lossless 5.1 track (assuming the remixed audio mix is any good!)...