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Dream Theater - Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Wea/Elektra Entertainment Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2001-04-24 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 159 Average rating: 4.5 "GREAT SHOW - HORRIBLE SOUND" No need to comment on the performances. These guys rock, period. The DVD production isn't good. All those effects are annoying and although I can understand where Portnoy is comming from on deciding on those effects, I think they're very amateur looking and completely unecessary. The sound is another shame in this DVD. Something as simple as compression -- yes, it's simple -- was overused and abused. I am a recording engineer and I can't believe they did such a crappy job on mixing this concert. It may have been captured wrong, maybe Kevin Shirley was drunk, who knows... I watched this DVD two times just for the sake of it but the sound quality won't let me play it a trird time. Hopefully the next DVD live in Tokio will be mixed by japanese engineers. "un buen concierto para el mejor trabajo" Este DVD contiene "Scenes From A Memory" completo de su última actuación de esa gira en la Ciudad de Nueva York el 30 de agosto de 2000. Además trae: -Comentario audio a lo largo de SFAM por los cinco miembros de Dream Theater. -Mas de una hora de material extra en vivo. -Documental detrás de escena. Dream Theater es una banda que ha mantenido una combinación rara de maestría musical y pasión firme por la música, mientras vende millones y llenan los sitios donde tocan. Dirigido por el baterista Mike Portnoy, este DVD el que trato de incluir lo mas que pudo de material en vivo del grupo incluyendo los temas: -Opening Scene, Regression, Overture 1928, Strange Deja Vu, Through My Words, Fatal Tragedy, Beyond This Life, John and Theresa Solo Spot, Through Her Eyes, Home, The Dance of Eternity, One Last Time, The Spirit Carries On, Finally Free, Closing Scene, A Mind Beside Itself Partes 1, 2, 3, Learning to Live, A Change of Seasons completa." Todo esto le da a este DVD 5 estrellas pues músicos como estos en vivo son un viaje total, pero lo que evita que este DVD este en nuestro salon de la fama son sus 2 puntos débiles, los efectos visuales y el sonido pues trae solo estéreo 2.0 falto Surround 5.1 que hubiera sido apropiado. De todas maneras ver a un guitarrista como Petrucci o un baterista como Portnoy dejan satisfecho al mas hambriento seguidor del genero progresivo, desde Rush o tal vez Pink Floyd no se veía a una banda respetando tanto a sus fans y su integridad. Por ultimo el DVD trae un truquito para ver, cuando salen barras de colores de TV permítales correr de 5-6 mins y podrás ver el casting del hipnoterapista... "Great.....But" Like other reviews here, I had to take away a star for the cheesy effects. The musicianship and sound quality is great though. I hope they haven't made the same mistake with their forthcoming DVD. "GOOD DVD-AWFUL SOUND" The sound of this dvd is very low and noisy.i cant really enjoy it for that reason.the other aspects of the dvd are ok. tks a lot to all the amazon reviews for warning me of this flaw!!! "DT on the radio of the old lady that lives the next door." DT are great. They did a great job on this concert, as they do on every show. Few people can play so well. They play live with no mistake. All of them are extremely talented. I practiced tens of hours to do some of those licks. They don't have to practice ... they know it, because they are good. But let's not talk about DT, let's talk about this DVD. I might suck at playing guitar even after 20 years practice, but my a/v gear is brilliant. So i wonder, why this beautiful music sounds soo creepy? The audio is really bad. Really really bad. It's a shame. Did they hear it? I just bought this dvd. It's the first time i look at it. I think i will turn it off, and i'll put on a CD. (I have all of their CDs, all of them are high quality recordings). I wonder , how .... how is it possible that a group like them sounds so bad? The mixing is good, but basically all the music is compressed. No soundstage. No dynamics. No air. No bass. No higs. Muddy. MP3s are wounderful compaired to this. I'd like to turn it off, but the music itself is soooo good that i can't. I will listen it as it is. It seems to listen to my grandma's old radio.