Neil Diamond: Hot August Night/NYC - Live from Madison Square Garden [Blu-ray] Overview
Recorded live at New York's Madison Square Garden in August, 2008, the DVD and Blu-Ray include the entire show from beginning to end and feature 25 career-spanning hits from Neil's phenomenal four-night sold-out run at the fabled concert hall.
Also includes the exclusive bonus feature "Welcome Home Neil," a behind-the-scenes look at Diamond's pilgrimage to his childhood home in Brooklyn.
Blu-ray features full 1080p High Definition Picture, LPCM 2.0 Stereo, and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround Sound (48kHz/24 bit) Track listing: 1.Holly Holy 2.Street Life 3.Beautiful Noise 4.Love On The Rocks 5.Play Me 6.Cherry, Cherry 7.Thank The Lord For The Night Time 8.Home Before Dark 9.Don't Go There 10.Pretty Amazing Grace 11.Crunchy Granola Suite 12.Done Too Soon 13.Brooklyn Roads 14.I Am...I Said 15.Solitary Man 16.Kentucky Woman 17.Forever In Blue Jeans 18.Sweet Caroline 19.Sweet Caroline (Reprise) 20.You Don't Bring Me Flowers 21.Song Sung Blue 22.I'm A Believer 23.Man Of God 24.Hell Yeah 25.Cracklin' Rosie 26.America 27.Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show BONUS FEATURETTE: "Welcome Home Neil"
Customer Reviews
First, let me say this, not to mention what you've read this yet Surround Sound Blu Ray is very good, not perfect, but let's say a 4 or 4 1 / 2 of 5 I played on a connected 3 PS HDMI to a digital amplifier with the possibility of conventional and decode the latest audio formats and to have this report. The LPCM 2.0 connecting through the stereo amp is played in a satisfactory manner, but write about anything - solid sound, but with a little 'overloaded bass booming at higher volume. DolbyTrue HD 5.1 output, when I played through two channels in a perverse way, the amp sounded worse. The tone was launched with poor stereo imaging boring and terrible enough for me to turn quickly. But 5.1.output same HD True if successfully decoded and reproduced by 5.1. Methods of final brought a smile on my face. The differential output from the different speakers varies, of course, played with the title, but usually about 20-25% of each of R and L before, 15-20%Subwoofer, 10-15% of R and L rear speakers and only 10-15% from the center speaker. Despite these temporary codes from the center, however, the stereo reproduction of the two front speakers and the excellent voice of Diamond and background singers are easy to spot even play with the full band for the last pe T and sounds. This type of mix is much better than one with a strong manufacturing center speaker, which overwhelms and destroys the illusion, Stereo (for audiophilesget a center speaker is similar to that found bubonic plague). The interesting thing about this special mix is 5.1 which is used sparingly in the Centre and in between the "filler", but is more of a channel environment. Listen to songs with the audience clapping and whistling as loud as noise and singing and you'll notice a strong background noise from the center. This, I believe, is the illusion of sitting in the front row in front of the stage in an aquarium that is Madison mediateSquare Garden, where, of course, the ambient noise around you 360 degrees! good sound and is not bad sound stage.
The video quality is more of a mixed bag. If the right light, you get the high-definition picture you expect from a Blu ray, but often, if Diamond in a darker image is softer, and some long shots of the audience moves appear blurry and grainy low light. A 4 out of 5 maybe.
But nitpicking part, is the performance,more important, and man can this guy play! Where is all the sock-it-to-em-numbers such as Holly Holly, Cherry Cherry, Crunchy Granola Suite and Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show, or declamatory are ... I said, or the syrupy sweet Caroline, or underwear You Do not Bring Me Flowers Neil Diamond whistles, the band is hot and the audience screamed all the laps more, more. What a night. Diamond is rarely ever disappointed in a live concert, and that powera real gem, 5 carats and all immaculate.
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