joe frady
Vile Refusenik
I watched the promo copy of the DVD last night and an insignificant little mystery was solved. A mystery that goinghome brought up last summer - the identity of the classical music prologue that features at the beginning of the 'Boxers' promo video by James O'Brien. At the end of the video there is a caption that says it's 'Peter Grimes' by Benjamin Britten.
Other insignificant details that came up ~ the DVD is NTSC encoded (at least the promo copy is) so unless you switch your dvd player to read NTSC the picture looks slightly 'off', as in jerky, stilted motion. In NTSC all is smoothness.
The 'remastered' promo videos look fine. To my eyes they still don't look as good as they did on the 'Hulmerist' and 'Malady' video comps, but perhaps that's just nostalgia. I haven't done a pepsi-challenge on them yet. The exception is 'November' which looks completely magnificent. And even after hundreds of viewings a pristine 'I've Changed My Plea to Guilty' on J.Ross still had the power to make the hair on my palms erect last night {although the sleeve gets the date wrong - it was shown on the 10th, not 9th, of December 1990!}
The 'Tomorrow' video is the standard version, not the '120 Minutes' cut, which is a pity. The original is fine but it would have been cool to have both.
The suedehead fella in 'Sunny' is wearing a t-shirt that says 'Jesus Was A Hippy'. Which is probably the only inerseting thing about that video.
I haven't tried the re-mastered CD as yet. It's on my iPod ready to go. I'll let you know how the 'new' old stuff sounds.
Other insignificant details that came up ~ the DVD is NTSC encoded (at least the promo copy is) so unless you switch your dvd player to read NTSC the picture looks slightly 'off', as in jerky, stilted motion. In NTSC all is smoothness.
The 'remastered' promo videos look fine. To my eyes they still don't look as good as they did on the 'Hulmerist' and 'Malady' video comps, but perhaps that's just nostalgia. I haven't done a pepsi-challenge on them yet. The exception is 'November' which looks completely magnificent. And even after hundreds of viewings a pristine 'I've Changed My Plea to Guilty' on J.Ross still had the power to make the hair on my palms erect last night {although the sleeve gets the date wrong - it was shown on the 10th, not 9th, of December 1990!}
The 'Tomorrow' video is the standard version, not the '120 Minutes' cut, which is a pity. The original is fine but it would have been cool to have both.
The suedehead fella in 'Sunny' is wearing a t-shirt that says 'Jesus Was A Hippy'. Which is probably the only inerseting thing about that video.
I haven't tried the re-mastered CD as yet. It's on my iPod ready to go. I'll let you know how the 'new' old stuff sounds.