The official Prog Archives Porcupine Tree Thread!

^The only difference between a Bluray and a DVD is the amount of info it can hold - They both come from the same source material (the original recordings) which is better quality than both DVD's and Blurays, but because Blurays can hold more information, the data that is put on a Bluray has to be compressed significantly less, so the picture/sound and reading speed is much, much faster.

I'm guessing the problem is that Bluray's are at least a bit slower to press than standard DVD's, and also that there's hardly any Bluray pressing facilities compared to the amount of DVD presses because it's still a relatively new format.

Not sure why it's taking this long though - I'm guessing the order just got through/the pressing started a few days late, so that the whole thing got out of order. Just a one day difference would add a few days on either end, due to changing shipping and receiving dates, getting new packaging and postage schedules ready, etc...
I'm still just a little annoyed that BS didn't have the Special Editions even on hand when we ordered over a month ago...

^Excellent! I've been looking forward to the DVD release of this for a long while. The 20 minute trailer on the Insurgentes DVDA piqued my interest to see the rest of it, too.

I got a message that mine (standard ed) is in the mail.  YEAH!!  

Yes, they send another email when the item ships. 

At least I got one.  My standard ed dvd shipped last Thursday. 

Maybe I just ordered before you and they haven't gotten your order out yet....I hope....good luck mate!

For all you PT fans that do not own a copy of Recordings (mine is #18153), this was just posted on the PT site:


http://www.porcupinetree.com/

Porcupine Tree's Recordings will be reissued on 6th September on KScope - a straight reissue, there won't be any bonus tracks or remastering.


Edited by rushaholic - May 23 2010 at 16:21

I'll be getting this, as I don't own Recordings yet. Happy about this news! 

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about the reissue regardless of any remastering or anything, it's impossible to get without forking over a boatload of cash.

With that being said, I've got to say, this band has really been growing on me, I saw them two weeks ago and loved the show but the weird thing is that I've been listening to them almost exclusively since the show.  If any pays attention to my Last FM numbers, I think Porcupine Tree has shot up over the last few weeks, knocking off a bunch of favorites and barreling down on Genesis.  That's almost sacred ground.

Regardless, every time I listen I hear something new.  I recently pulled "Buying New Soul" off of my "Lightbulb Sun" bonus disc.  Holy crap, how did that song not make it on the regular disc, as I said, I can't wait for "Recordings" to be reissued to get the rest of the out takes.  "Stupid Dream" has really been growing on me as well.  I absolutely love "Even Less", the creepy numbers read at the end are so haunting.

"Prodigal" and "Dot Three" off of "In Absentia" are both fantastic.  The solo at the end of "Prodigal" is worthy of anything that Roine Stolt would pull off and "Dot Three" is just a beautiful laid back piece that builds up beautifully.  "Nil Recurring" is a recent pick up and I think every song on that is great.  In total, I'm just plain loving this band as of late.

Roland113 wrote: Yeah, I'm pretty excited about the reissue regardless of any remastering or anything, it's impossible to get without forking over a boatload of cash. With that being said, I've got to say, this band has really been growing on me, I saw them two weeks ago and loved the show but the weird thing is that I've been listening to them almost exclusively since the show.  If any pays attention to my Last FM numbers, I think Porcupine Tree has shot up over the last few weeks, knocking off a bunch of favorites and barreling down on Genesis.  That's almost sacred ground. Regardless, every time I listen I hear something new.  I recently pulled "Buying New Soul" off of my "Lightbulb Sun" bonus disc.  Holy crap, how did that song not make it on the regular disc, as I said, I can't wait for "Recordings" to be reissued to get the rest of the out takes.  "Stupid Dream" has really been growing on me as well.  I absolutely love "Even Less", the creepy numbers read at the end are so haunting. "Prodigal" and "Dot Three" off of "In Absentia" are both fantastic.  The solo at the end of "Prodigal" is worthy of anything that Roine Stolt would pull off and "Dot Three" is just a beautiful laid back piece that builds up beautifully.  "Nil Recurring" is a recent pick up and I think every song on that is great.  In total, I'm just plain loving this band as of late.

idiotPrayer wrote: progkidjoel wrote: Kind of dissapointed with the reissue - I'd love to hear it in 5.1, and since I already have the original CD, I don't have any reason to get that one. 5 of the 9 songs are however featured in 5.1 on the stupid dream and lightbulb sun reissues

Hehe, I forgot that
I guess the main point of the reissue is just to make it available on a CD to the hundreds of fans who don't have a copy, more than anything. Although some bonuses would've been nice.