The Adele live at royal Albert hall blu-ray's video quality is awful. I personally have a copy and the its really disappointing. At first test akala ko yung player yung may sira, pero it was actually the blu rays transfer.
Its like they just upscale a SD video and didn't give a proper HD clean up. All the details on her face is lost, some of the colors are dark but the audio is not so bad. I have sen better blu-ray concert and this isn't one of them.
This wasn't my recollection of this bd concert so I watched it again. It's not the best in pq but for a concert, it's not bad either. It suffers from the typical concert problems which boil down to the fact that the prime audience is the live audience, not usually the bd viewers.
In particular, the lighting is designed for the live audience. It is normally harsh and washes out facial details. The lighting may also be blue, red, yellow, etc and that may not come out well on the bd. For audience shots, there's often insufficient light which causes grain.
The Adele bd suffers from all these difficulties but it's still not bad. There's no way that an sd can compare to it. It has much more detail, particularly shadows in dark images & this bd has a lot of that. An sd will crush the black detail. There are a few audience shots with good lighting and there's so much fine detail that you won't see in sd. Even the realism of Adele's hair is very hard to get with sd.
If you have a small screen or if your display can't properly reproduce black detail, you may not appreciate this bd. If anyone has any doubts, I'd invite him to view it in my HT. On a 133" screen, it's very easy to tell what is sd vs bd.
