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How to Be a Megastar Live! [CD]

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ABSOLUTELY rock and roll magic!

on September 19, 2010

Posted by: haemphyst

from Bakersfield, CA

First, the recording quality of this concert rivals anything Madonna or Michael Jackson ever did. Nothing was overblown, EQ-wise, smooth highs, without overblown sibilants, and tight, subterranean, (but not overblown) bass response. Loud, but rarely clipped, the engineering was stellar. The entire recording will test your stereo system like few recordings this side of The Crystal Method's VEGAS. The most amazing part of the entire recording, is the wonderful, tight, musicality of the entire thing.

Stunning visuals, the effects were simply mind-blowing... Nothing more can be said regarding this. No matter what you have to pay, SEE A CONCERT!

Tracks include "Up to the Roof", featuring Adrian Hartley... An amazing performance, with a tight, musical capacity I've rarely heard, and NEVER heard in a live concert. An amazing voice, she has superb power and range. A goosebump-inducing performance, to say the least. To hear this particular track, check her home page, at adrianhartley dot see oh em.

Track 12 features Peter Moore, another amazing artist. Excellent vocals here, as well. I am not generally a male vocals kind of guy, but his just... Wow. The horn section in this one is awesome, as well. Those guys can blast it out!

My favorite track, #20, Baba O Riley, aka Teenage Wasteland, is a cover like I've never heard. I have been a fan of The Who since I can remember, and this was absolutely the most amazing cover I've ever heard... Ever. Pete Townsend must certainly be pleased with the care taken with his baby.

What's great about it: Read the review... I fairly "gush" over it...

What's not so great: I can't get it in the stores!

I would recommend this to a friend!

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What is HD Upconversion?

Do some DVD's need it, or do certain TV's have to have the HD Upconverstion to play DVD's? Is it a quality thing, and if so how different is it from a regular DVD player?

Thanks!

"Upsampling" is an electronic process that "fills in" the information that the CODEC (literally "coder/decoder") considers to be missing, giving you a "better" picture: It's kind of like "software line doubling", wherein you see "more than what's there". It was designed originally to make standard DVDs look more like Hi-Def or Bly-Ray DVDs, but really, there is no comparison.

Standard DVD players output a video signal at 480 lines of resolution. Upsampled players can output the SAME standard DVD recording at up to 1080 lines: "upsampled"

The "better" that I mentioned, is an opinion. If the CODEC is poorly implemented, and many very inexpensive upsamplers are, you can actually be worse off than just watching the DVD in standard resolution.

"Upsampling" is a built-in feature, not something that any DVD needs, and the "upsampling" will be in the DVD playback device, generally speaking. Most often, it cannot be "turned off", either.

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haemphyst

Bakersfield, CA