ELP Emerson Lake & Palmer Cataloge in 5.1 Surround

[elmer]

In the USA maybe, but there's more to the world than America

Yes! The colonies are top market in Blu Ray sales, and most likely represents more in total sales than the rest of the top 10 world marketplaces combined (inlcudind UK). However, Blu Ray sales in the UK have increased by over 50% in the last few years and represent the same proportion of sales vs DVD that are here in the US - DVD is still the dominant format but sales are decreasing every year by the same amount that Blu Ray increases - worldwide.

The world is bigger than the view outside your window (or a trip down to the local mart).

 

[tarkusnj]

Now here is a strange one...Greg Lake performing with the Moody Blues on a Caribbean cruise ship in March, 2013.
http://www.fabricationshq.com/greg-lake-october-2012.html

 

[Quad Linda]

Very tempting. I'm a fan of both and have been to the Caribbean many times.

Yes, mon!

Now here is a strange one...Greg Lake performing with the Moody Blues on a Caribbean cruise ship in March, 2013.
http://www.fabricationshq.com/greg-lake-october-2012.html

 

[user 1679]

The music cruise seems to be a new thing. I saw another one that has Yes and a bunch of others on it too.


On a related ELP note - another live release announced this week: Live in California 1974

Yes, it's the Cal Jam show, again. But unlike the DVD or the Then & Now release this one has Pix at an Ex on it, 9 1/2 minutes anyway (which I think is the "complete" version from the tour, the encore at the shows).

 

[Ca1ore]

Blu-Ray is struggling because people just don't see (or hear) the point. DVD is perfectly ok for the majority of the general public, just look at the shops selling disc's, here in the UK, DVD still reigns supreme, and i suspect it will for quite some time to come.

Did you just make this up? Blu-ray worldwide is the fastest growing new format in history - even faster than when DVD was replacing VHS. Incidentally, I recall similar comments to yours about DVD back then. Wasn't true then, isn't true now. Sorry, but DVD-A was an abject failure, and if surround has any substantial future it will be on Blu-ray - at least most consumers know what it is.

 

[oxforddickie]

I think you need to open your eyes, the last two ELP releases were.... DVD-A!!! Not a blu-ray in sight. The general public do not see the point in it, most are more than happy with DVD. Lets see what a year will bring, eh?

 

[MyCuff]

I think you need to open your eyes, the last two ELP releases were.... DVD-A!!! Not a blu-ray in sight. The general public do not see the point in it, most are more than happy with DVD. Lets see what a year will bring, eh?

OD,
I am OK with either format as an audio medium, but I too think Blu-Ray has a better chance of succeeding, at least in the USA. Far more people here have a Blu Ray player than a DVD-Audio capable DVD player. What I long for is a lossless format where I stick the disc in and it starts immediately on track one. DVD-A at least has that capability, but oh well...

 

[leevitalone1]

Very few people have DVD-A compared to Blu-Ray
There are over 60 million Sony Playstation 3 out there, and millions more Blu-Ray standalone and combo units, also laptops and PCs, all capable of playing Hi-Rez uncompressed multichannel audio.
Of course there are even more DVD-V players out there but you won't find any 5.1 uncompressed DVDs for sale.
The potential sales are there for BD audio provided they are priced like movies, $10-20, and not like box sets with marbles.:howl

I'd love to see dvd a take off, unfortunatly, the point about blu ray is valid. more and more people are buying into blu ray. Sales are slow, but this holiday I'll bet we'll see prices tumble,as with HD tv's. The reason in my mind blu ray music "may" take off. People have the equipment like dvd. And, with AVR prices so low, HTIB all you need do is point the direction.
IN 2000 it was confusion with 2 formats and choosing, or buying both until Oppo saved our asses. Not many are willing to do that.

 

[Ca1ore]

I think you need to open your eyes, the last two ELP releases were.... DVD-A!!! Not a blu-ray in sight. The general public do not see the point in it, most are more than happy with DVD. Lets see what a year will bring, eh?

Sorry, but I think you need to read what I actually wrote. I understand that the ELP releases were on DVD-A, but those, and a tiny trickle of other releases, does not change that fact that the format is on life support. I wish it were not so. I have been buying all the releases I can since the first day it was launched as a format and have long lamented the miserable level of support from the studios - where was the broad catalog support those labels promised?

Blu-ray is replacing DVD, particularly as people buy into high definition televisions at substantial rates. But, I agree with you, let's see what the next year or two brings. Blu-ray is a format with a future, DVD-A didn't even have a past.

BTW, I'm not particularly optimistic about the future of surround sound on Blu-ray either - I just don't think there are enough people who care about hires surround sound - but at least it has a chance.

 

[0tto]

statistical data shows Blu-Ray share of market now is 24+% compared to 75+% DVD. quite a gap but
for the past years Blu-Ray keeps on constant rise, when DVD on opposite side in constant decline.
it seems like this tendency has direct relation to the lowering cost of BD discs and playback hardware.
so, pretty obvious that Blu Ray had become prefered choice for consumers and there are expectation
as of 2015 the market share will be more than 50% belong to Blu Ray.

 

[JonUrban]

statistical data shows Blu-Ray share of market now is 24+% compared to 75+% DVD. quite a gap but
for the past years Blu-Ray keeps on constant rise, when DVD on opposite side in constant decline.
it seems like this tendency has direct relation to the lowering cost of BD discs and playback hardware.
so, pretty obvious that Blu Ray had become prefered choice for consumers and there are expectation
as of 2015 the market share will be more than 50% belong to Blu Ray.

One more thing to take into consideration is the whole Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu, etc deal. Videophiles, like Audiophiles, who want perfection (in their minds), will still buy a Blu-Ray disc, while those content with DVD quality are more likely to just get a movie on pay-per-view, or Netfilx, as ownership of the physical disc is "going away" as well. I know that I have access to a ton of movies, many of them in HD, that I can watch whenever I want via Netflix or Amazon Prime that basically cost next to nothing, and I don't have to store them or, in the great American Lazy Tradition, get up and put in a disc!

It's a no brainer that DVD sales will go down, and Blu-Ray discs will never gain the penetration that DVD had at one time - not because they're not great - but because people do not want discs at all!

 

[0tto]

Videophiles, like Audiophiles, who want perfection (in their minds), will still buy a Blu-Ray disc, while those content with DVD quality are more likely to just get a movie on pay-per-view, or Netfilx, as ownership of the physical disc is "going away" as well.

quality is main point for purchase of modern HD TV set. ones, who brought such pretty obvious would prefer to
utilize full potential. i'm not sure how soon HD streaming would become major players and how much production
studious will be willing to abandon physical mediums, such like cinema theatres and discs, which generate lion's
share of their present earning.

 

[tarkusnj]

Fun night at the Chiller Theater Convention. Keith Emerson jammed with a band and played the theme from the Munsters, a bit of Tarkus and Fanfare for the Common Man.
And Keith reiterated that is was NOT him singing OR playing the piano on Unknown Ballad and said nobody in the band knew what it was.
And one more note. Keith does not have a surround system at home although his girlfriend would like one...she did not come right out and say that but she did say she had something back home before she was with Keith.

 

[JonUrban]

.......And Keith reiterated that is was NOT him singing OR playing the piano on Unknown Ballad and said nobody in the band knew what it was.......

Well then the track is named appropriately!

 

[fredblue]

Well then the track is named appropriately!

Ballad of an Unknown Gun..!

 

[tarkusnj]

Keith playing at the Convention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sOj_JQqj_A&desktop_uri=/watch?v=2sOj_JQqj_A&gl=NO

 

[rontoon]

My friends Jon and Linda got to hang out with him. They're good friends of both Keith and Greg.

 

[strat54]

Blu-ray is replacing DVD, particularly as people buy into high definition televisions at substantial rates. But, I agree with you, let's see what the next year or two brings. Blu-ray is a format with a future, DVD-A didn't even have a past.

BTW, I'm not particularly optimistic about the future of surround sound on Blu-ray either - I just don't think there are enough people who care about hires surround sound - but at least it has a chance.

I agree. Most people will not sit in front of their huge plasma tv just to listen to the home theater speakers with a blank screen.
For Blu-Ray Audio to succeed there has to be visual content.
It can be music videos or photo slideshows and include subtitle lyrics and/or popup factoids.
However it should still autoplay so the purists can enjoy a great album without turning on the screen and wading through menus.

I have made discs like this, I believe tarkusnj has too. It's not that hard. It's the way it should've been done with DVD-A in my opinion.

 

[strat54]

And Keith reiterated that is was NOT him singing OR playing the piano on Unknown Ballad and said nobody in the band knew what it was.

No E, L, or P on the cut? Then it was a huge snafu that it got the OK for release.

 

[rtbluray]

No E, L, or P on the cut? Then it was a huge snafu that it got the OK for release.

Could've been worse. Imagine if Steven had his original way and allowed that track to replace "Are You Ready, Eddy?" on CD2?
As bad as AYRE is, Unknown Ballad is worse, so I'm glad we at least got the correct running order on Disc 2.