1. I Can't Explain
2. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
3. Pinball Wizard
4. Relay
5. My Wife
6. The Kids Are Alright
7. Bargain
8. Magic Bus
9. Who Are You
10. Baba O'Riley
11. Drowned
12. Heart To Hang Onto
13. So Sad About Us
14. I'm One
15. Behind Blue Eyes
16. You Better You Bet
17. The Real Me
18. 5:15
19. Won't Get Fooled Again
20. Subsitute
21. Let's See Action
22. My Generation
23. See Me, Feel Me
24. End Credits
God, The Devil and Pete
There are no artifacts on show (good start) and the concert has been shot and
presented in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (excellent, keep going), but suddenly
something hits you as soon as the band strike up. Yes, no matter how much
preparation you've put into something, there can still be the spanner in the
works if someone tries what makes a number of BBC and ITV sitcoms even more
painful to watch than they are initially - Blurryvision. Well, that blurry
effect that TV producers use to pretend a TV show, shot on video, has actually
been shot on film by removing every other video field. In the end, you get a
stilted mess that blurs badly whenever there's frantic movement (in particular
with Townshed playing Drowned on acoustic guitar).
And do you know what's really annoying about this? It's because it was added
on in post-production because someone stupid thought it looked good. It wasn't
there to the thousands watching the concert as it happened and shouldn't be
there now.
The sound is presented in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1, the latter
sounding that bit more effervescent. However, it's not the sort of thing that
screams multi-directional sound and is let down by the vocal performances of the
band.
In the extras dept, the Documentary with Roger Daltrey Interview runs
for nearly 8 minutes and includes a moment on-stage, not shown in the concert,
when the band hand over a cheque for a million quid to the cancer trust.
The 3-minute rendition of Pinball Wizard, in Dolby Digital 5.1 only, has seven different angles
to choose from but is windowboxed and on each selection there are smaller windows
for each of the options to the left of the main window, when they should have
shown the seven main ones individually in 16:9 and made an eighth angle on the
DVD to show the lot together.
There's all of 2 minutes to see in the Backstage Footage, rather
incorrectly subtitled "Let's See Action" because it's not that exciting
and finally comes Rehearsal Footage shot three days before the gig
for most of the guests, but it doesn't give you any kind of major insight
into the preparation beforehand. All of the extras are in 16:9 anamorphic
widescreen dodgyvision as described earlier.
This DVD maybe Region 1 NTSC, not Region 2 PAL, which might occasionally
explain some picture differences but nothing like the poor quality suffered
here. It does explain why there's no subtitles on this disc and yet the PAL
DVD cover that accompanied them state four languages are on the disc
including English.
There are 24 chapters to the disc, as described in the track listing above
and the menus on disc one blend in footage from the concert with the background.
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
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