The Cure

Any chance of deluxe Blu-ray editions of the studio albums?

Flame me if you will, but I am not particularly interested in the deluxe editions of The Cure releases on CD. I appreciate that they are mastered well unlike most of the "remastered" releases these days that usually just means "dynamically raped", but the same tired old CD format?

The reason high resolution digital never took off to date was a format war and lack of compatability. But there is no format war with Blu-ray, there are millions upon millions of players in the market - heck Avatar just sold 4 million Blu-ray discs in 10 days!! All Blu-ray discs will play in all players.

Take Disintegration. Would anyone be interested in a release like this?
* Newly remastered album in high resolution 24-bit/192kHz stereo and 5.1 surround sound.
* All videos minted to high definition with newly remastered audio (stereo and 5.1)
* Archived promotional footage and performances in 1080p where source material allows
* New interviews with the band about the album and its place in music history
* Studio footage of the remastering process
* All b-sides and unreleased material in high resolution stereo PCM

Price it at $24.99 and I'd buy it in a heartbeat. It's artists like The Cure which could rescue the music industry by issuing cutting-edge releases on Blu-ray Disc of their entire catalogue. Neil Young, Trent Reznor, Rob Halford and Tom Petty can't be the only artists that understand the benefits of fidelity that CD just can't deliver.

I hope this post doesn't fall on deaf ears. I love The Cure and I think albums like Wish, Mixed Up and Disintegration would be stunning on Blu-ray. Anyone that's picked up the Blu-ray version of the Trilogy knows how amazing Blu-ray can sound...but it's just as awesome a format for AUDIO as it is video.

Please UMG and The Cure - consider testing the blu-ray waters with a Deluxe Blu-ray Disc release of "Disintegration" - I beg of you!

\m/ \m/

Re: Any chance of deluxe Blu-ray editions of the studio albums?

Shame that this has fallen on deaf ears, but here we go..
The only Bluray release they've put out to date is "Trilogy"..
There are more DVD releases slated in the future, Show and In Orange being the main ones and I think they would be performing commercial suicide by not releasing them in Bluray format as well..
As for Bluray releases of the albums? I really don't know, not overly familiar with anyone who has done that..
Maybe once Bluray can have things burned onto them it may happen.. (?)

Re: Any chance of deluxe Blu-ray editions of the studio albums?

I'd buy them if they did :-)

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fattyowls wrote:
Shame that this has fallen on deaf ears, but here we go..
The only Bluray release they've put out to date is "Trilogy"..
There are more DVD releases slated in the future, Show and In Orange being the main ones and I think they would be performing commercial suicide by not releasing them in Bluray format as well..
As for Bluray releases of the albums? I really don't know, not overly familiar with anyone who has done that..
Maybe once Bluray can have things burned onto them it may happen.. (?)

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dobyblue wrote:

fattyowls wrote:
Shame that this has fallen on deaf ears, but here we go..<br />The only Bluray release they've put out to date is "Trilogy"..<br />There are more DVD releases slated in the future, Show and In Orange being the main ones and I think they would be performing commercial suicide by not releasing them in Bluray format as well..<br />As for Bluray releases of the albums? I really don't know, not overly familiar with anyone who has done that..<br />Maybe once Bluray can have things burned onto them it may happen.. (?)

<br /><br />Burnable Blu-ray discs have been around since the format launched in 2006. Artists that have already released studio content in high resolution on Blu-ray Disc include Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, Rob Halford, Neil Young, The Pixies and Tom Petty.<br /><br />All four full length Pixies albums are available in 24/192 stereo and multi-channel. Tom Petty's newest release "Mojo" marks the first major label (Warner) Blu-ray Audio release and it's done really well. The disc contains the entire album in 24/48 PCM 2.0 and 24/48 dts-ma 5.1<br /><br />I was aware of trilogy, but this is specifically pleading for the lads to consider the benefits of Blu-ray for these studio releases. Listening to a really nice 5.1 mix of Disintegration or Wish would be truly amazing, but not with the crappy lossy 5.1 Dolby they put on DVD's.

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I agree - they should have already done it.
The cost of authoring a Blu-ray disc for audio is substantially less than authoring a movie simply because of the massive size of a movie (usually around 1TB to fit on a 50GB disc) you're compressing.

In addition costs have been dropping constantly since 2006 when the format launched, so while a BD-A would be more money to put together than a 3CD set at the moment, it wouldn't be substantially more and certainly wouldn't be anything that couldn't be recovered by a $5 premium in MSRP over the CD. Add in downloadable .flac's of all the material for portability and BAM I think you've got the format of the future.

I know about formats not making it, I have plenty of SACD and DVD-A discs. I don't mind owning them because they still work and you'll never hear REM, Seal, Tom Petty, NIN, Billy Joel, Elton John, Toto, Mike Oldfield, John Mayer, Snow Patrol, Sting, The Police, Nick Drake, Genesis, Depeche Mode, Ryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Death Cab for Cutie, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Neil Young, Queensryche, Beatles and Porcupine Tree sound as good as they do in high resolution...except for those perhaps with high-end turntable set-ups like the VPI Scoutmaster for example...but even then you're not able to hear the multi-channel mixes and listening to Violator or The Downward Spiral in high resolution surround is simply out of this world, an entirely new experience.

I wouldn't re-buy everything, especially titles that I'd just spend good money on, but I would definitely pick up a few titles like Mixed Up, Wish and Disintegration if they release them on Blu-ray. Myself, I haven't bought a CD in a very long time; I'll stick to vinyl until they give me Blu-ray.

Hopefully Tom Petty's "Mojo" will pique Warner's interest and they might start considering some other Blu-ray releases. I know Tom wants to go through his entire catalogue and do high resolution surround and stereo Blu-ray versions. I'll definitely pick up Full Mooon Fever, Wallflowers, Southern Accents and Into The Great Wide Open when he does.

But man, I'd love to kick back and listen to "From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea" in surround. Is it too late for Robert to consider setting the standard when Wish is remastered? =D I would listen like my head's on fire.