The Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience to release on Blu-ray

The Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience to release on Blu-ray on the 30th of June.

Songs on the 3D Concert Experience include:

1. Tonight (Opening Credits)
2. That's Just the Way We Roll
3. Hold On
4. BB Good
5. Goodnight and Goodbye
6. Video Girl
7. Gotta Find You
8. This is Me
9. Still In Love with You
10. Pushing Me Away
11. Should've Said No (with Taylor Swift)
12. Love is On Its Way (Music Video)
13. S.O.S
14. Burning Up
15. Can't Have You
16. A Little Bit Longer
17. Love Bug (Bonus Performance)
18. Shelf (Bonus Performance)
19. Live to Party
20. Play My Music

View the High Quality Screen Shots of the The Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience's Blu-ray version Here.

Like a wad of watermelon bubblegum caked on the bottom of your shoe, Disney's dazzling 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer will leave a lasting mark on your retinas. From blazing blues to simmering magentas, the Jonas Brothers and their screaming fans are continually bathed in vivid stage lights and striking spots. Artifacting and crush hinder the image from time to time, but more often than not, the picture remains clean and stable regardless of what the boys throw its way. Whites are crisp, blacks are deep, and dimensionality is astounding. Sure, slightly soft shots occasionally mar the proceedings -- as does the inconsistent quality of the backstage footage sprinkled throughout the performance -- but any resultant shortcomings should be attributed to the shoot itself rather than the technical transfer. As it stands, overall detail is refined and revealing, textures pop, and edges are quite natural. I didn't encounter any noise reduction or unsightly post-production nonsense, any significant banding or aliasing, or any other major distractions. The very nature of the production leads to some uneven visuals, but it doesn't detract from the positive aspects of the presentation.

All things considered, The Blu-ray edition of The Jonas Brothers: 3-D Concert Experience won't give fans or critics much to complain about (at least from an AV perspective). Whether you select the 2D or 3D version of the concert, Disney's BD-50 disc offers a solid, at-times gorgeous transfer that thoroughly trounces its standard DVD counterpart.

The Jonas Brothers: 3-D Concert Experience arrives on Blu-ray with a commanding DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround track hampered only by the erratic sonics that inevitably accompany the concert's multi-sourced backstage footage. Anytime the cameras focuses on the stage show, the boys' lyrics, guitar riffs, pulsing drum beats, and piano melodies sound absolutely fantastic. Fidelity is pitch-perfect, LFE support is powerful and resonant, and aggressive rear speaker activity inserts the raging crowd directly into the track's thoroughly convincing soundfield. There's so much going on at any given moment that the concert could have easily become a garish assault on the senses, overwhelming anyone unfortunate enough to step in front of a speaker. To its credit though, masterful prioritization and deft directionality ensure that every strummed string, weighty downbeat, and crystal clear high note fall precisely into place.

And the aforementioned backstage footage? It certainly doesn't sound bad -- on the contrary, it bests the audio quality of most Blu-ray documentaries -- but unavoidable air hiss, pinched voices, unwieldy crowd noise, intermittent distortion, and minor anomalies hold it back from greatness. Still, it's tough to complain about such inherent issues when the rest of the track packs such a hefty punch. Fans can breath a sigh of relief: Disney has produced an excellent lossless track for the Jonas Brothers' Blu-ray debut.


The 3-disc Blu-ray edition of The Jonas Brothers: 3-D Concert Experience offers both 2D and 3D versions of the performance, four pairs of 3D glasses, an extended 89-minute cut of the movie itself (with two additional songs: "Can't Have You" and "A Little Bit Longer"), two bonus songs from the cutting room floor (HD, 8 minutes), and Up Close and Personal (HD, 15 minutes), a semi-decent behind-the-scenes featurette that gives the Jonas boys a chance to reflect on their tour, careers, and fame. A 2D edition DVD and a standard definition DisneyFile digital copy disc are included as well.