A deluxe three disc set in a hardcover book with a slipcase.
1+ contains a 27-track blu-ray disc with restored videos for each song. A second "+" blu-ray disc has a further 23 videos including Rain, Strawberry Fields Forever, A Day In The Life, Hey Bulldog, Don’t Let Me Down, Free As A Bird and Real Love, along with many alternate promos of classic tracks including Paperback Writer, Day Tripper and Hello Goodbye. This deluxe edition provides over 200 minutes of video content via 50 individual films - 20 of these weren’t used at all in The Beatles’ Anthology, with others used only in part or in alternate edits.
The hardcover book contains digipak trays for the discs and 124 illustrated pages, together with ‘an appreciation’ of The Beatles’ groundbreaking films and videos by music journalist and author Mark Ellen, and detailed track/video annotation by music historian and author Richard Havers.
This reissue features newly created stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS HD surround audio mixes, produced from the original analogue tapes by Giles Martin with Sam Okell at Abbey Road Studios. Jeff Lynne and engineer Steve Jay have remixed Free As A Bird and Real Love. The CD with the package uses the new stereo mixes, not the 2009 remasters.
I have the DVD version of this. Should it be listed separately? Mine no longer has the slipcase (bought at an antique store for 5 bucks), so I don't know if the slipcase differed at all.
Just sat and watched the most of this set, overall impressions are disappointing. After all the hype I was expecting much better than this. A lot of the videos IMHO are unwatchable, and Get Back from the 1 Blu-Ray disc has sound sync issues. The Plus Blu-Ray disc on the other hand fares a bit better. I certainly wouldn't recommend anybody to splurge out £40 for it. I was playing this on UHD through a Sony 4K Blu-Ray Player and it's maybe upscaling the disc so will give it a go on the normal Blu-Ray player into a non-4K HDMI port and see what the result is.