The Corrs on Blu-ray?

moandal · #1 25-03-2008, 09:15

Now that the Blu-ray/HD-DVD format war is over and you can pick up a Blu-ray player for £200, it would be good to see an increase in the number of Blu-ray titles available. A significant number of people now have HD-ready TVs. I did a search for Blu-ray Music discs on play.com and it returned just 9 titles in total!

If there were any Corrs videos re-released in HD on Blu-ray, I'd buy them and a player in an instant. I wouldn't have thought it would cost the production company too much to do that and would be worth their while financially. If John Legend (who the **** is he?) can have a Blu-ray disc out then so can the Corrs!

Heckler · #2 26-03-2008, 00:49

I guess there are two problems here, which in practice probably weigh about the same. Firstly, the record company's lack of interest in promoting the Corrs, let alone investing a significant amount of money. In this case, this is even rather understandable since I don't think there is much of a HD market for Corrs concert recordings. Secondly, they might very well lack suitable source material. Except for maybe Live in Geneva, there is a great chance that the concerts were not recorded in HD.

Larry · #3 26-03-2008, 11:23

Fortunately, most Blu-ray players will upconvert SD DVDs to near-HD quality. I know it won't quite be the same, but it's likely the best we'll get. Unless the comeback is a smashing success and their record company decides to cash in by re-releasing re-mastered versions of everything they've done that's already on DVD.

**Daniel Lindberg** · #4 27-03-2008, 18:26

I don't think we'll see any Corrs blu-ray releases unless Warner decides to release a series of "classics" or something on blu-ray.

Michael · #5 29-03-2008, 20:24

I would say it's very unlikely because first there isn't really a market for Corrs HD stuff, and second of all I wouldn't imagine anything Corrs has been recorded in HD (apart from Montreux a few years ago).

erikeke · #6 08-10-2009, 22:31

The Lansdowne Rd concert was all filmed in Super 16mm on Kodak film stock. That would take nicely to being re-scanned in 1080 Blu-ray or HD-DVD.
I have "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" on HD-DVD (is the same on blu-ray) - this movie was all shot on 16mm film and it looks great. Far better dynamic range than shooting HD video.
It seems Lansdowne is the only concert The Corrs have released this far that could be tranfered to blu-ray properly. All the other concerts are shot in low-def video.
The standard definition DVD transfer of Lansdowne Rd is not good on the standard DVD.
I hope they bring this one out. Give me a yell if anyone see this out on blu-ray! :-)

deniserogue · #7 09-10-2009, 11:45

^you could be right but right now they are more interested in promoting movies in blu-ray than these concerts. for now concerts like the Corrs' are only available in DVD, or so it seems since i can only see DVDs of concerts here.

maybe this link can help: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=9

those are all the Warner releases in Blu-Ray.