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TRACK LISTING: 1 DVD 1: JUEGOS DE SEDUCCION 2 DVD 1: TELE-KA 3 DVD 1: IMAGENES RETRO 4 DVD 1: TEXTURAS 5 DVD 1: PICNIC EN EL 4º B 6 DVD 1: HOMBRE AL AGUA 7 DVD 1: EN LA CIUDAD DE LA FURIA 8 DVD 1: ZOOM 9 DVD 1: CUANDO PASE EL TEMBLOR 10 DVD 1: FINAL CAJA NEGRA 11 DVD 1: CORAZON DELATOR 12 DVD 1: SIGNOS 13 DVD 1: SOBREDOSIS DE TV 14 DVD 1: DANZA ROTA 15 DVD 1: PERSIANA AMERICANA 16 DVD 1: FUE 17 DVD 1: EN REMOLINOS 18 DVD 1: PRIMAVERA 0 19 DVD 1: NO EXISTES 20 DVD 1: SUELES DEJARME SOLO 21 DVD 1: EN EL SEPTIMO DIA 22 DVD 1: UN MILLON DE AÑOS LUZ 23 DVD 1: DE MUSICA LIGERA 24 DVD 1: DISCO ETERNO 25 DVD 1: CAE EL SOL 26 DVD 1: PROFUGOS 27 DVD 1: NADA PERSONAL 28 DVD 1: TE HACEN FALTA VITAMINAS 29 DVD 2: DOCUMENTAL GIRA 30 DVD 2: L&L 31 DVD 2: EXTRAS 32 DVD 2: EL RITO 33 DVD 2: TRATAME SUAVEMENTE 34 DVD 2: SI NO FUERA POR 35 DVD 2: EN CAMINO 36 DVD 2: ZONA DE PROMESAS 37 DVD 2: LO QUE SANGRA (LA CUPULA) - CON C. OMAR Y A. ALVAREZ 38 DVD 2: TERAPIA DE AMOR INTENSIVA (CON CARLOS ALOMAR) 39 DVD 2: PICNIC EN EL 4º B (CON ANDREA ALVAREZ) 40 DVD 2: SIGNOS (CON GILLESPI) 41 DVD 2: FUE (CON GILLESPI) 42 DVD 2: DANZA ROTA (CON FABIAN QUINTIERO) 43 DVD 2: PERSIANA AMERICANA (CON FABIAN QUNTIERO) 44 DVD 2: PROFUGOS (CON FABIAN QUINTIERO) 45 DVD 2: PRIMAVERA 0 (CON RICHARD COLEMAN) 46 DVD 2: NO EXISTES (CON RICHARD COLEMAN)

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Great in content.... Yet another poor release from Sony/BMG
Being a huge fan of Soda Stereo, and having attended one of the concerts from last year my expectations were high for this release (opposite to the audio CDs since the recording has been around since last year in the web) While the presentation and the graphic design are great as usual in Soda Stereo releases, once again, the guys from Sony/BMG have failed to deliver.

THE CONCERT

All 28 songs from the set list they performed live are included in Disc 1. While this may sound great in content it leads to several issues I will point below. The lesser known tracks are here (Telekinesis, Vitaminas) as well as the classic hits from the band (Persiana Americana, Signos, La ciudad de la furia, etc)
The DVD does not open as the concert did, with a video showing images of the band at the sound of the cover they made of "Some day, one day" by Queen. The DVD instead opens with the same song but with an accelerated video showing the crew building the stage. The videos from the comedians they showed before the actual concert would have been a nice extra too; these were not included in either of the discs.

1. No Anamorphic Widescreen presentation - In times in which widescreen HDTV sets are almost a standard, Sony/BMG continues their tradition of releasing videos and concerts in a 4:3 presentation. This means that if you have a widescreen TV set you will see two black bars on both right and left sides of the screen. You can try and expand the image using the TV zoom feature so it fits in the whole screen but you don't want to do that after you read number 2 below...
2. Image looks awfully compressed - While they included performances from each of the different concerts in different cities, they included the whole set list as mentioned before. Being the concert an over two-hour show the picture compression rate is so high that the pictures looks pixeled and distorted even in a standard tv set! I watched this in a 50" HDTV set using an upscaler DVD and the result was horrible. I then tried this in a standard 29" and even there the picture look distorted due to the picture compression. Again, all this problem with the picture quality could have been easily solved either by dividing the concert in 2 DVDs (Disc 2 included here could have been sacrificed) of by releasing this in a Bluray (which in case BMG/Sony don't know already, is the new format a lot of people are going for)
3. Bad editing - I am not even going to mention the name of who edited this thing (it is however included in the booklet) Since the idea is to present performances from different places, you'd expect that if the video says a particular song was recorded in say, Mexico, you'd actually see the performance of that song in Mexico. Well, the guys who edited this used scenes from other presentations regardless you are supposed to be watching a particular one. This is more notorious thanks to the circles of light above the band, in a close shot they will be in a position and in the next shot they will be on a different one. Another thing that was very notorious and annoying was that in all the songs performed in Buenos Aires in particular, one of the cameras was placed so near to the speakers (or a structure related to them, not sure really) that it actually shakes at the rhythm of the music, so you have this shaky image that worsens with the problem mentioned in number 2 above.
4. Not a real "live" performance - Like I mentioned before, there is a recording someone made from the HQ console and uploaded to the internet. After comparing that original audio with the one in this DVD, it is obvious it has been edited in a studio to make it sound better. While I may understand the reasons for this decision, I find it a little bit dishonest to sell this as a "live" recording while that is not necessarily true.

THE EXTRAS

There is a cool 1 hour documentary included about the tour with some funny and interesting facts from the band itself.

There are also some performances of songs during the tour with guest artists (like Richard Coleman), highlights of these performances are live versions of "Terapia de amor intensiva" and "Lo que sangra" that were not performed in the concert I attended.

Another thing they included is a documentary called L&L (Leandro y Leo) that I do not intend to give details about. I am a fan of Leo Garcia but I was awfully disappointed with this. It is practically a semi-documentary they made with a handy cam during the tour with Soda. They try to be funny... but they are not.

Bottom-line, I do not think they treated this material with the respect this band deserved, a reunion had been rumored for years and the tour was well received by fans who longed to see Soda performing live again. I do not want to sound picky but I got this with the highest expectations of enjoying it and because of all this, I did just the opposite. If you are a fan you will get this regardless of what anyone can tell you, if you are not, try to skip this...

Indispensable de tener... calidad decepciona mucho
Soy fanatico de Soda de toda la vida, los he seguido por mas de un pais, incluyendo 3 conciertos de la gira Me Veras Volver. No suelo criticar nada de la banda porque eventualmente siempre me gusto cada una de sus canciones y nunca tuve suficientes videos e info de la misma, siempre hay algo mas que se podria tener.

Habiendo dicho esto, estaba esperando ansioso el lanzamiento de este DVD y lo pude ver recien ayer. Es increible poder ver las 28 canciones y aparte el DVD con extras. El sonido esta muy bueno y los extras tienen cosas muy buenas para un fanatico. Los conciertos en general fueron buenisimos.

Sin embargo, estoy muy decepcionado de la calidad del video. Lo vi en la noche en un plasma de 50" Full HD y a traves de un Playstation 3 con Full Upscale. La calidad deja mucho que desear. Como lo describieron antes, se nota muy comprimida, la edicion no es la mejor, pues hay muchas fallas de continuidad, como por ejemplo que en una toma Cerati esta parado en medio del escenario y la siguiente esta al pie del microfono, lo cual hace obvio que son diferentes conciertos mezclados en la misma cancion. Eso pasa muchas veces, y decepciona mucho. Se nota que usaron diferentes tipos de camaras y una toma puede ser muy clara y limpia y la siguiente se ve granulada y borrosa. Demasiadas tomas que se nota son hechas con el zoom a todo y, como mencionaron, la camara se mueve al ritmo de la musica, lo cual es un poco enervante.

Por que no se filmo todo con camaras HD y se hizo un release en Blu-Ray? No lo entiendo! No se le ha dado la importancia ni el respeto que merecia este video, y me parece que el resultado es casi mediocre en cuanto a su calidad. Repito, el contenido musical es excelente y a pesar de todo lo dicho, se lo recomiendo a cualquiera, pero da lastima que Shakira pueda sacar un concierto en Blu-Ray que es de una calidad impresionante, y Soda Stereo saque algo solo en DVD y de una calidad mediocre. Una banda como Soda merecia algo mucho mejor producido y editado.

GRANDE!!!
Dios... para mí sí valió la pena la espera, acabo de recibir el DVD y lo estaba esperando con tantas ansias!!

A mi me parece bien que hayan puesto tomas de los distintos lugares en que pasaron, eso para los que tuvieron la dicha de estar en alguno de esoso sitios, va a ser por siempre un graaaaan recuerdo.

Otra, el audio no es pésimo como dicen y L&L es un lado cómico, para que veamos que los SODA son sencillos, humanos que ríen, se enojan, se desesperan... se aburren... got the idea?

A mí en lo personal me encantó!!! ojalá del UC hubiesen puesto también backstage... ni modo!