Sting - Live in Berlin [BluRay Untouched, 1080i] {2010}

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Sting - Live in Berlin [BluRay Untouched]
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra / Steven Mercurio
MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i, 1.78:1 | Size: 40 GB | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, LPCM 2.0 @ 24Bit/96kHz
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 06025 275 3098 | Country/Year: Germany 2010 | Full Artwork
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Sting Live in Berlin looks really sharp a lot of the time thanks to an AVC encoded 1080i transfer in 1.78:1. What keeps this Blu-ray from getting a higher video score is its tendency to bloom when the stage and arena lighting goes to blue, which unfortunately is a lot of the time. The blue is so overpowering that everything starts to look posterized, with gritty black and purple smears where shadows should be. In fact a couple of shots of the blue-lit audience are just mucky masses of color and shape, with nothing really completely discernable. Aside from that, this is a really nice looking transfer, with abundant sharpness, excellent fine detail, and nicely saturated color. When there's more natural stage lighting, Sting's face is revealed in all its (gasp) aging detail, and the midrange shots of the band and orchestra also show everything from flyaway hair to dust mites in the stage lighting.
Like a lot of audiophiles, and music lovers in particular, I'm prone to turning up Blu-rays, but I have to admit Sting Live in Berlin is one of the first concert BDs I've actually turned down, after its extremely robust lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix (96 kHz/24 bit) sent a pile of discs I had stacked on my subwoofer flying across the room. This is big music with an often overpowering low end, but it's all mixed so expertly that you won't be complaining. This track percolates along often streaming at close to 10 Mbps, one of the heftier rates I've witnessed. With brilliant fidelity and superb support throughout all frequency ranges, this is reference quality audio in terms of live music performance. What's odd is how indecipherable Sting is when he speaks; in fact, it's next to impossible to make out what he's saying at least some of the time, and there are unfortunately no subtitles to aid the way along. But when he sings, everything is golden, with the band and orchestra expertly placed throughout the soundfield, and, aside from the unfortunate sing along episodes, audience sound relatively restrained. An LPCM 2.0 (also 96 kHz/24 bit) stereo fold down is available for those without a surround system. blu-ray.com

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