Product Details

• Actors: Bad Company
• Format: Color, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
• DVD Release Date: February 9, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002XUBDQA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,620 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bad Company: Hard Rock Live [Blu-ray]" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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BAD COMPANY:HARD ROCK LIVE - Blu-Ray Movie

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Picture - Mediocre Sound, February 10, 2010

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D. Nicholas "Rock Show Host" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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I reserved and purchased this early. Big mistake...although the picture was good, I was very surprised at the sound. Paul's voice was too spread out, and there was a distinct lack of bass. Treble was, overall, "tinny." Bass was substantially lower than was present on my other Bad Company/Paul Rogers standard DVD's/blu-rays. I have never had to crank the feed to my sub from 0.0 to 6.5. on Bad Company material. I played a number of other DVD's during our Tuesday Night "Rock Show," and found that several standard DVD's sounded better...Echo and the Bunnymen for one. This DVD needs tweaking on the sound end. I will be checking [...] for reviews, BEFORE I buy, next time.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than I feared..., February 18, 2010

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robi1138 (Voorhees, NJ) - See all my reviews

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...after reading the other reviews. Don't get me wrong, it's not the greatest concert disc ever but it is very good. That being said, some of the comments about the audio and video are essentially correct (with some caveats).

The picture is grainy and black levels leave something to be desired, but it is sharp and the colors are nice. I didn't see any added edge enhancement and there are no encoding artifacts. Overall, not bad at all but not reference quality either.

The DTS-MA track has exellent resolution and is very clear. However, it is lacking any real bass and sounds too bright as a result. Also the mix suffers from (as others have mentioned) Ralphs' guitar being too loud in the mix and Rodgers' vocals being spread out to the rear channels too much. The stereo track lacked the bite of the DTS-MA track so after much fiddling I came up with a nice compromise. Because my Blu-ray player does the sound decoding internally (and passes the lossless sound to the receiver via analog cables) I was able to pass the core-only 5.1 DTS track over the digital optical cable to my receiver and play a bit with my usual settings. By increasing the crossover on the receiver from 60 Hz to 110Hz and increasing the subwoofer level a bit (about 3 dB), I was able to get a nice bass sound that wasn't boomy and had some definition to it. The other advantage of this method is that it allows you to use the 5.1 track and (surprisingly) Rodgers' vocals are not all spread out but are nicely locked up front with only reverb in the rear channels. Ralphs' guitar also seems less prominent.

Finally, after listening to it twice, I paid more attention to the music and really liked it a lot. The first time through I thought the concert got better as it progressed but listening to the first few tracks again, it really was good right from the beginning. I don't think Ralphs was that bad at all but the added guitarist does help. Rodgers and Kirke are excellent IMO and the added bassist moves things along. Overall a great collection of songs played very well by the three remaining members of Bad Co.

Definitely recommended

Update 4/23/11:

After some more fiddling with my receiver's and Blu-ray player's settings (i.e. setting my main speakers to small and boosting the subwoofer level a tad) the lossless audio track sounds much better. I still think the guitars are a bit too loud in the mix but the overall sound is definitely better than the core-only DTS 5.1 track. Still, both sound very good.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Show! ...so so blu-ray!, July 3, 2011

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Jimmy H. Frederickson (Century City, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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The return of Bad Co... top notch performance! however I don't think this blu-ray was all that great!
it had a lot of noise in the video and just didn't turn out that good! Audio gets about 9 video gets 7
hope this helps out...The best concert I have ever seen in blu-ray is The Moody Blues from the Greek !
in Los Angeles,Ca. That will blow your sox off!