Glastonbury The Movie: In Flashback

not what i thought
I bought this movie thinking it was a compilation of performances art Glastonbury when in fact it is a documentary of what the people do at the festival very little musical performances, I am disappointed because I was hoping it was more about the musicians! so if you were thinking about buying it for any musical performances don't waste your money!

Really gives the feeling of the Festival
In addition to some classic performances, "Glastonbury:In Flashback" gives the viewer a glimpse into what it's like to attend the Glastonbury Festival. Throughout the performances concertgoers are followed over the 3 days. My favorite storyline was "Charlie the Drummer" a struggling musician trying to get noticed while having a good time. A must for not only fans of 90s music, but music fans in general!

Audio not dts-ma as advertised, missing loads of extras only found on the 4-disc DVD set
The box lists the audio as dts-HD Master Audio, but it's only regular lossy DTS, DVD quality. I will edit my review later when I check whether it's 1/2 bit-rate or not. There are no extras supported here. Watching "Gravity Grave" by The Verve, which was a terrific performance and it's a shame it wasn't presented in full, shows the poorer video sections of this movie, it's not even presented in anamorphic so you have to either zoom or just deal with the inferior choice of presenting this video source. There are other video-sourced presentations like Dire Straits' "Alchemy" on Blu-ray which use the full range of picture available (it's 4:3 but it still fills your screen from top to bottom with the 4:3 bars on the side) so I don't see any reason for this to have happened.

The vast majority of the festival footage does look great in high definition, and I would rate that 4/5 easily, but the other footage brings it down.

I'm not thrilled that I upgraded my DVD to this...

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