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Summary: Passion On Video
Review: This is a truly excellent collection of Gloria's best Spanish-language videos, and live performances. The collection is a visual feast, blending gorgeous colours, and exciting and upbeat original videos. 'Que Siga..' captures 'La Glo' at what she does best... captivating the public. You will NOT be disappointed by this purchase in any way. I guarantee it!
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Summary: Poor audio & production; video collection lacks momentum
Review: What a disappointment, I have been looking for good artisits' concert & music video performances, with great audio (DS 5.1 or DTS), to play as entertainment on my 160" (diag.) front projection system. The room is 40' long. The audio is Yamaha DSP (RX-V3000), nine speakers (L, R, LFE; FE-L, FE-C, FE-R; RS-L, RS-C, RS-R).I like Gloria Estefan. I have 4 of her CDs, and prefer her music in Spanish. I was excited to add this video to my 150 DVD collection. After watching the DVD's 13 videos with connecting material, I am completely disappointed. I'll likely just sell the video on Amazon used. (1) More than half of the videos on this DVD have very poor Dolby Surround 5.1, worthless: no imaging, non-dynamic, very flat, very unrealistic, very unsatisfactory. I tried every Yamaha DSP mode, including no effects and standard modes, all to no avail, nothing sounded even tolerable. Actually, the "standard" 2-channel Dolby Surround audio is listenable, although pretty "flat", especially in such a large-screen system. If a DVD is going to have premium audio (D5.1 or DTS) it should be engineered to high quality, unfortunately this isn't. (Maybe 5 or 6 six of the videos have adequate or good sound engineering on this DVD). (2) The mini-documentary "connecting" footage (with minimal dialogue) between the videos is extremely annoying, offers no value/excitement, is of very low production quality (like a Hi-8 camcorder) with ... audio, and each time destroys any continuity between the videos. It makes it impossible for the viewer to become immersed in the musical experience, as one would expect in a concert video, or a music video collection.
If you really, really love Gloria, and are going to watch this DVD on your normal 35" television, with 3-channel (or 2ch) audio, then it might be considered "ok". The mini-doc footage is still annoying and will prevent you from ever playing the DVD end-to-end as background entertainment for a group/party. I'm very disappointed. I hope someday Gloria Estefan have a worthwhile DS 5.1 or DTS concert video, with high production value and without the documentary bits stuck inbetween songs. (I do appreciate docu content, as long as it's separately watchable). (FYI, for comparison, try Luis Miguel "Vivo" DTS concert video. It's incredible ... the production, performance, the audio engineering, everything. Completely outstanding.)
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