Will a Blu Ray ever release? - Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) Discussion

[–] hallogallo 13 years ago

Of course there will be. In the mean time just play your DVD on your Blu-ray player and provided it's connected to your HDTV with HDMI cable the image will automatically upscale anyway.

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[–] bstee-1 13 years ago

I have a 73" TV and while it will be upscaled, there is a difference between upscaled DVD and Blu Ray. Not to mention, there is a lot of diference in the sound and I can't wait to hear the Blu Ray as much as see it.

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[–] macabre_madness 13 years ago

I look for it everytime I go to Best Buy. Hell, I came to this page just now to see if anything was being said about a blu-ray release.

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[–] Jeddia 13 years ago

My guess is that they'll work on it after the release of the Immersion set for The Wall so they can use the new 2011 audio mixes on the Blu-ray.

While this makes perfect sense, it sucks that they aren't including a Blu-ray of the film with the Immersion set. I thought for sure they would when I first read about the upcoming releases, but alas...that would be too awesome.

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[–] dwarfland 13 years ago

SInce the film doesn't use the original album recordings but new versions sung, e,g. by Geldof, what good will the remixed tracks off the Immersion edition do?

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[–] Jeddia 13 years ago

Alot of the original multi-tracks were used underneath re-recorded vocals by both Waters and Geldoff. Some things have to be independently remastered (like 'What Do We Do Now' and perhaps 'When the Tigers Broke Free'), but they will certainly have a head-start now that the Immersion sets are out.

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[–] rogerwatersfan3 12 years ago

James Guthrie has said he is actively working on a Blu Ray of "The Wall".

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[–] bouhanamarc 11 years ago

ouf i wait so much for a bluray of this masterpiece and i want rock star too and i want tina too
what are they doing ???

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[–] laserboy28 9 years ago

A 5.1 version was released on laserdisc with the original 7.1 (or stereo surround) version as it was heard in movie cinemas playing it in 70MM. The audio on the DVD is a "cleaned up" version, it doesn't quite reach as low with the insane bass in the original 70MM audio version (laserdisc) and they eliminated the pieces that had distortion. There were maybe 10 pieces of audio that had audio distortion, the first few times that I saw it in 70MM I thought it was the speakers being overloaded, until I saw it at another 70MM cinema and heard it there too, and it's present on the 5.1 laserdisc too.

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[–] thao 11 years ago

I wonder if we can trust this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-THE-WALL-Blu-Ray-/171124214014

Is it just the DVD on a Blu Ray disk or is it in Blu Ray quality? It says nothing about the resolution.

Here is another place:
http://oz.by/video/more10181839.html

And it says 1080p (2.40:1) 1920 X 1080 there!

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[–] laserboy28 9 years ago

It appears to have been released somewhere in the world (UK/Europe/Japan ?) on HD DVD. I've seen the front cover artwork, unless it's faked but I don't think that it is. HD versions can be found on the 'net, if you know what I mean...

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[–] danickster 11 years ago

What we really need is a 'Criterion Collection Blu-Ray' release of The Wall. That would be awesome. . .

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[–] Jeddia 11 years ago

I've always been surprised that Criterion wasn't all over The Wall. I mean...Criterion licensed Armageddon ffs...

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[–] wrs6565 11 years ago

I always thought their issues of stuff like "Armageddon" and "The Rock" were to make them a bit of money. I mean, they probably don't sell millions of whatever obscure European art film from 1973 they just put out.

Criterion rules, mind you--best in the biz by far. They are probably putting out more popular stuff though, these days, in with all the cult/critic stuff. "Rosemary's Baby" and "On The Waterfront" will probably be big sellers as will that new "Nashville." My all time favorite by them is "Dazed & Confused."

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[–] HEYitzED 11 years ago

A Criterion remaster would look gorgeous!

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[–] HEYitzED 11 years ago

Yeah, an upscaled DVD isn't as good as a Blu-ray. There's only so much you can get out of a compressed image.

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[–] ghostgate2001 10 years ago

Yeah, an upscaled DVD isn't as good as a Blu-ray. There's only so much you can get out of a compressed image.

True, but I'm watching my old (2000 release) DVD of the film as I type this and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had an uncompressed PCM 5.1 soundtrack. I'd either completely forgotten or had no idea what that even meant when I last watched it, because I'd always just assumed it was compressed Dolby Digital.

I'd held off watching the film for years, imagining how great it was going to sound uncompressed on Blu-ray ... and it turns out my DVD, sat there gathering dust on my shelf, already had uncompressed audio all along. Who knew? Not me... D'oh! :)

So, yes, an upscaled picture isn't a match for a true HD transfer, but at least the film was already available on DVD with uncompressed audio - and that's arguably the most important thing with this film.