A magnificent concert - the DVD/Blu-ray is called "David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live from the Royal Albert Hall". And - this track is more than worth the price tag by itself.

Love how Bowie sings a harmony voice, instead of the main voice. (Bah - don't know the english word)

There are better quality videos out there, though, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySx7af3fEf4

This 2006 concert needs a *quality, a *doublepromote and to lose the 70s tag.

It doesn't say, but I'm guessing that this may be off of the new Blu Ray set.

>> ^raverman:

Thanks for reminding me there's never going to be another episode of Firefly...
Bitter sweet...man i love that show.


I feel you man, I think about it at least once a week, sometimes that makes me bust out the Blu Rays and weep for awhile. It was my favorite show ever.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I find Hi-Def to be jarring when watching old beloved films. It loses that dreamy painted quality and looks more like closed circuit television. Filmmakers put a lot of effort into creating a beautiful celluloid pallor, which HD Blu-Ray usually just rudely brushes aside. I have a sneaking suspicion that QT feels the same way, because he is a student of classic cinema. I'll be curious to see if QT finds a way to keep the old school warmth. Either way, this looks awesome. Take my money, please.


Are you sure you don't have some kind of motion smoothing on, or some similar effect? Because it sure sounds like it. A good Blu-ray transfer of a classic film looks far, far more film-like than any DVD is able to muster. Modern TVs default to the closed circuit television, or soap opera look, which absolutely baffles me.

I read an article that said that a good rule of thumb is that any video setting that can be turned off on a TV should be turned off. Modern TVs look like garbage by default. Though I suspect that you know how to calibrate your TV, and in that case I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Blu-rays are awesome.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I find Hi-Def to be jarring when watching old beloved films. It loses that dreamy painted quality and looks more like closed circuit television. Filmmakers put a lot of effort into creating a beautiful celluloid pallor, which HD Blu-Ray usually just rudely brushes aside. I have a sneaking suspicion that QT feels the same way, because he is a student of classic cinema. I'll be curious to see if QT finds a way to keep the old school warmth. Either way, this looks awesome. Take my money, please.


I could not disagree with you more sir after watching Blade Runner on Blu Ray on a large screen. It was like watching it at the movies.

I find Hi-Def to be jarring when watching old beloved films. It loses that dreamy painted quality and looks more like closed circuit television. Filmmakers put a lot of effort into creating a beautiful celluloid pallor, which HD Blu-Ray usually just rudely brushes aside. I have a sneaking suspicion that QT feels the same way, because he is a student of classic cinema. I'll be curious to see if QT finds a way to keep the old school warmth. Either way, this looks awesome. Take my money, please.

I bought it on Blu-ray...because I'm insane!

My PS3 plays Blu-Rays...so that's kinda cool.

>> ^BoneRemake:



I put the scene up in this Sift's information section as well as it most definitely HAD to be a source of inspiration for this awesome stop-motion animation piece. Thanks again to @bizinichi for the original Sift, @dingens for bringing my attention to it--I had no idea that scene existed, and @BoneRemake for the nice embed so people can watch it right here.

I really did like this 100th episode, but this part of the episode has made me leave it on my DVR as a permanent resident , as it TRULY went to new extremes in this type of animation to get it done. I'll have to look around and see if I can find a good documentary style kind of show or other type of setup from adultswim or Robot Chicken's company (Stupid Monkey, I believe) that shows how this full scene from beginning to end was done. It really is a fun piece to watch and re-watch and I bet they had a blast doing it as well; same with the voice acting. Maybe they have some on the Season 5 DVD/Blu-Ray Extras that may be available online by now (as I think this is almost a year old--it's 2011 anyway...).

Until then \m/....

>> ^RFlagg:

It's on the Instant Que if you have that option. Haven't seen it yet myself, but it's there...

I noticed that, and I bet that's why they keep skipping it. I prefer to get the DVD/Blu-ray for a couple of reasons. The streaming movies don't have surround sound, and I like the extra features like deleted/alternate scenes that you only get on the disks.

I made it a rule not to buy any movies older than 2005 on Blu-ray simply because most movies would just be upscaled versions of their DVD counterparts with some possible cleanup involved. *Unless* it was a classic and went through a complete restoration, The Wizard of Oz as an example. Watching that on Blu-ray is just phenomenal. (Except for that rogue hair that's STILL stuck in the camera at the end. Don't get me started on that....)

I'll probably pick this up at some point, after the price drops.

>> ^Yogi:

I've watched Jaws and it's not bad, but I honestly don't get why people think this is such an amazing movie. I mean come on it's not Rocky.


Switch Jaws and Rocky and I 100% agree with you

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Execs at a meeting before this whole process.
"How can we make more money.. without creating new things?"


Well, they got no new ideas and and least george lucas didnt put loads of shit all over it..

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^JiggaJonson:
@EvilDeathBee "reaching" ain't there yet. Still looks like a cartoon to me (probably bc I play too many games). And nomatter how good it gets, it will always look like the actors are talking to/interacting with empty air. Say what you will about animatronics and puppets but meeting a puppet's eyes is never a problem for actors.

Completely disagree. Did you seriously think Prometheus looked "cartoony"? Also, the CGI Yoda in the Blu-Ray Episode 1 was so much better than the rubbish puppet from the theatrical release (regardless of how shit the film is). No matter how good a puppet or animatronic is, it will always be limited in what it can do and especially how it animates.
And if and actor has trouble meeting the eyes of a digital character, that's poor setup, poor direction, poor editing and even poor acting. As I said, it's knowing when to use CGI and when to use puppets/animatronics/models. All can be blended to work well together, depends on the shot.

Ok, so the Yoda puppet was pretty shit, but I think I still prefer it to the CG one. Whether something is believable seems pretty binary to me. Its not as if either version really does a good job of hiding the man behind the curtain. Some CG I am totally fooled by. Backdrops, a lot of special effects but when it comes to something organic, something thats going to be the focus of the camera CG never really holds up. I've seen tech demos of CG faces, and tbh, I can't really tell the difference. I think the problem often is blending this CG in with the rest of the scene. Our brains seem very good at detecting inconsistency in lighting etc, too often CG elements really seem painted on top and it spoils the illusion. A lot of animatronic stuff matches CG in terms of its animation, but because its actually in the scene it never jumps out at you.

But hey, maybe one day our films will be made entirely in front of bluescreens. Pehraps the performers won't even have to wear makeup or costume, it'll all be superimposed on afterwards. For the moment I still think animatronics has the edge in realism.

>> ^JiggaJonson:

@EvilDeathBee "reaching" ain't there yet. Still looks like a cartoon to me (probably bc I play too many games). And nomatter how good it gets, it will always look like the actors are talking to/interacting with empty air. Say what you will about animatronics and puppets but meeting a puppet's eyes is never a problem for actors.


Completely disagree. Did you seriously think Prometheus looked "cartoony"? Also, the CGI Yoda in the Blu-Ray Episode 1 was so much better than the rubbish puppet from the theatrical release (regardless of how shit the film is). No matter how good a puppet or animatronic is, it will always be limited in what it can do and especially how it animates.
And if and actor has trouble meeting the eyes of a digital character, that's poor setup, poor direction, poor editing and even poor acting. As I said, it's knowing when to use CGI and when to use puppets/animatronics/models. All can be blended to work well together, depends on the shot.