Fast forward three months and the much-anticipated UB820 has finally arrived. As promised, it supports HDR10 and HDR10+, and will support Dolby Vision through a firmware update in the fall. It also boasts an HDR Optimizer that allows you to manually adjust the brightness of HDR content depending on the light levels in the viewing room, an HCX (Hollywood Cinema Experience) processor that's designed to enhance Blu-ray picture quality, 4K Direct Chroma upscaling that converts 1080p content to 4K, support for high-resolution audio formats, and twin HDMI output jacks (one for video and one for audio). It also plays HD 3D discs, supports 4K streaming services, has built-in wireless LAN, and promises future connectivity with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant through another upcoming firmware update.
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Filmed with ten HD cameras, the show is presented uncut in 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video. (Note that according to the specs from Sony, the in-between-song crowd shots were filmed in 480p video and upconverted, so they look intentionally grainier.) The clarity is terrific. There is nary a shot that does not look three-dimensional. It's sharp as a tack, with superior contrast that excels even in the shadows. I was also pleased at how smooth the image is -- there are no jaggies or other motion artifacts, which can often mar transfers of live HD material. (To the show's benefit, it is not over-edited, so there is little fast motion to wreck havoc with the encoding.) Colors are also rich and vivid, with no chroma noise or smeariness.
'Incubus: Alive at Red Rocks' was originally released on standard-def DVD last year, and now it hits Blu-ray with the same couple of extras (plus a Blu-ray exclusive, see below). The supplements are not atypical of the type of material we usually get on concert DVDs, though these goodies have the distinction of being presented completely in 1080p video. Nice.
First there are 13 minutes of Backstage footage, divided into five segments: "Hardcore Fans," "Make Yourself Foundation," "Soundcheck," "Showday" and "Backstage." All I can say is that I'm either getting really old, or I weep for the future. The fans they chose to highlight are either all inebriated white trash, just plain idiotic, or both. The depth of comments range from, "Incubus is, like, awesome dude!" to "I'm, like, a lesbian, but I'd totally switch for you guys!" Deep shit. The band footage doesn't offer much better, aside from photo ops with fans and typical montage footage of soundchecks, behind-the-scenes preparations, the group playing videogames, etc. Perhaps a genuine band interview about the music and the show could have been a bit more rewarding.
Incubus' soaring hard rock sound may not be to everyone's taste, but it is obviously yours if you've read this far. 'Alive at Red Rocks" is exactly what a fan is likely to want: an unpretentious, terrifically-produced document of a milestone show in the band's career. This Blu-ray release from Sony BMG won't disappoint, either. The video and audio are excellent, and the extras sharply presented in full 1080p video. This one's a no-brainer for Incubus fans.
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