The Cranberries-Beneath the Skin: Live in Paris (2001) |
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General | Extras | ||
Category | Music |
Menu Animation & Audio Scene Selection Anim & Audio Featurette-Band Part 1 Featurette-Band Part 2 Featurette-Technicians Music Video-Saving Grace Music Video-Not Hollywood Music Video-MTV Unplugged-Yesterday's Gone Music Video-How Gallery-Photo-3 Music Video-Animal Instinct Music Video-Promises Music Video-Just My Imagination Notes-Song Lyrics Notes-Equipment Notes-Instruments Featurette-"BTH" Morphing Album Cover |
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Year Of Production | 2001 | ||
Running Time | 84:33 | ||
RSDL / Flipper | Dual Layered | Cast & Crew | |
Start Up | Menu | ||
Region Coding | 2,4 | Directed By | Maurice Linnane |
Studio
Distributor |
Warner Vision |
Starring | Dolores O'Riordan |
Case | Amaray-Transparent | ||
RPI | $249.95 | Music | The Cranberries |
Video | Audio | ||
Pan & Scan/Full Frame | None |
English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s) English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s) |
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Widescreen Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | ||
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Video Format | 576i (PAL) | ||
Original Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | Miscellaneous | |
Jacket Pictures | No | ||
Subtitles |
French German Italian Swedish Norwegian Spanish Portuguese Danish Dutch Finnish |
Smoking | Yes |
Annoying Product Placement | No | ||
Action In or After Credits | No |
Filmed in France a few years ago, this concert is well directed, with excellent coverage of all four musicians in a variety of close-ups and long shots. Sweeping crowd shots are used judiciously and the stage decoration is captured faithfully by the widescreen compositions. Although the sound and video quality are below par, The Cranberries Live in Paris is an essential purchase for any follower of this down-to-Earth rock quartet. Of course, seeing Kiss at the Tennis Centre in Melbourne last week reminded me that nothing beats the real thing.
1. Promises 2. Animal Instinct 3. Loud and Clear 4. Ode To My Family 5. The Icicle Melts 6. Linger 7. Wanted 8. Salvation 9. Desperate Andy 10. Go Your Own Way 11. Pretty | 12. When You're Gone 13. I Can't Be With You 14. Waltzing Back 15. Free To Decide 16. Zombie 17. Ridiculous Thoughts 18. Dying In The Sun 19. You And Me 20. Just My Imagination 21. Delilah 22. Dreams |
Sharpness is reasonably good throughout. Glimpses of the huge crowd are handy for determining picture detail, since you have a carpet of ever-smaller human details leading off into the distance. On freeze frame it was possible to discern enthusiastic individuals seated deep into the arena. Subjects close by were well-rendered, exhibiting many clothing, instrument, and skin features. Shadow detail was average and there was no excessive edge enhancement. Blacks were fine except for a mist of grey video noise that appears every now and then. While the image was pleasing, I felt that the analogue video media used to capture this concert limited the amount of apparent detail available in the end product.
Colours showed an appropriately gaudy level of saturation without too much bleed; pure reds were chalky at times, perhaps due to my TV's comb filter. I ended up dabbing the chroma setting down to a more suitable level. Skin tones looked natural, though lacking the solidity you get from film or a better video source. Again, the use of video source materials have undermined an otherwise decent, if saccharine, colour rendering.
Video noise: have I mentioned yet that there is a hell of a lot of it? Well, there is. Sometimes it looked like it was snowing on stage. No white flecks or compression glitches appear in the image. It's a real tragedy that this transfer suffers from so much video noise. It's not distracting once you accept its presence and pretend you are watching VHS or an ABC broadcast, which is rather sad. Otherwise this would have been an excellent visual presentation.
Since I did not notice a layer change I assume this disc is Dual Layered, with the layers dividing the concert footage from the extras.
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Dolores O'Riordan's vocals came through beautifully, with no distortion or sync problems.
The instrumentation was arranged in the traditional manner, with the drum kit and guitars distributed left to right across the front soundstage. While acceptable, the separation was below what Dolby Digital is capable of. Bass kicks and bass guitar notes sounded weighty enough to be enjoyed, but I would have preferred more punch and tightness in there -- one imagines that the resulting sound was meant to approximate the audio characteristics of a live recording.
Rear channel activity was reserved for crowd cheers and realistic reverberations filling the stadium. Although I have heard better, this soundtrack does a reasonable job at recreating the live concert experience. Having said that, a properly mixed and mastered DTS track would blow this one out of the water. Compared to CDs released by the Cranberries, the DVD audio fidelity was not good enough to enjoy for it's own merits. The difference is glaringly obvious when one plays any of the three Cranberries video clips thoughtfully included as supplements.
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A third documentary piece called "Le Crew", clocking in at 13:17, allows the roadies to talk about what they do to deliver the live act. The names of those shown on video are Harold Danker, Russell Burton, Joe Herlihy, Murt Murphy, and Declan Hogan, who is a bit of a character.
All segments are 16x9 enhanced (sourced from video) with Dolby Digital 2.0 audio.
NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
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Review Equipment | |
DVD | Pioneer DV-737, using Component output |
Display | Loewe Ergo (81cm). Calibrated with Video Essentials. This display device is 16x9 capable. |
Audio Decoder | Denon AVD-2000 Dolby Digital decoder. |
Amplification | Arcam AV50 5 x 50W amplifier |
Speakers | Front: ALR/Jordan Entry 5M, Centre: ALR/Jordan 4M, Rear: ALR/Jordan Entry 2M, Subwoofer: B&W ASW-1000 (active) |