Short take: not completely taken.
OK, finally got to this last night. I am a Roger Waters fan and enjoyed the tour, so I was very much looking forward to this. I must say my reaction to the presentation is mixed.
On the plus side, the audio is very clean and clear. It is not possible to fault the audio fidelity. Also, the video is well shot and looks beautiful. And in contrast to his Total Re-Wall video, this one does not cut away from the live event to annoying asides and vignettes that have nothing to do with the concert.
On the down side, I find the mix to be nearly devoid of surround interest. For those who commented that the mix (5.1 only for me) had some interest, would you please post specific examples so I can go back and hear what you are referring to. There can't be that many, as far as I can tell. So if the mix counts for anything, for me so far that aspect is a zero.
Finally, I found the audience to be so low in the mix that this sounds like a studio recording with an audience "noise floor." While I personally dislike audience and ambience only in the rears, most live recordings (including stereo) will at least swell the level of the audience between musical selections or at critical moments of audience response. Here there is just kind of a low level hum of the crowd. I found the effect of this choice to leave the music feeling a little antiseptic. They had video shots of people feeling something, but we hear very little of their response.
I will wait to cast a vote, pending some identified use of surrounds. I isolated them at points and found them wanting. Overall I found it to be a decent to very good document of the proceedings, but stripped of some of the emotional content of a concert. Perhaps the perfect metaphor for a Covid Concert! Like TV comedian without an audience, or a sporting event without a crowd of fans. Does anybody else in here, feel the way I do?
