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Lets
start by saying
Yes you do need this
Yes you can throw away your copy of Watching TV with
this replacement ...if you had/have one.
Yes it upgrades the Roger Waters Video Anthology by
95%
It even upgrades some mistakes that Roger Waters made
when making some of the videos. What God Wants in
particular.
Yes it was fookin' hard work.
OK..are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
Those that had the Original Watching TV ,the Anthology
made like a movie ,had either mono or static running
from start to finish on the audio.
Anyway ,a low gen VHS was sent to me by DanS (thx
Dan) to re-master and transfer to DvD. This was mono
as well. However, on looking at some of the footage
I had better quality for some of it & in a lot of
cases better footage than on the Harvested RW Anthology.
So....instead of re-mastering the VHS I set about
putting myself into the brain of The Kid From Cleveland
(the original producer) to completely re-make the
production where possible keeping it as close as I
could to the original but using the better quality
footage that has surfaced or been discovered since
his making of it. That's basically the bottom line.
A quick summary of the upgrade content on this DvD
is:
You will have 4 original re-mastered Kid From Cleveland
videos not available on RWA.
You will have no MTV artifacts that appear on some
of the videos on RWA.
Every Strangers Eyes now has a complete beginning
(listen to the song & watch the video on RWA....there
is one statement missing from the waitress and in
fact what you do see is synced to the wrong statement
that she makes.
Also the tape chewing glitch 1/2 way though that song
on RWA has been 90% fixed. Yes, I did use that video
to re-make it (thx Ron).
What God Wants now actually has Apes freaking out
visually when you hear it at the beginning.....why
Rog didn't do that when making it is beyond me.
Some extra news footage has been added to bring it
a bit more up to date politically.
All is now in proper sync. The scene changes, the
explosions...even the Policeman on Radio Waves.
Audio.....the lot...........Turn the f***er up loud
& hear what I mean.
:FOOTNOTES:
Sexual Revolution is the only under par video (audio
is top notch), but it is a Kid From Cleveland original
video which is different to the one on RWA.
The reason I have said VG+ for some of the video is
that> News footage is in this production from all
years & obviously when it was originally shown today's
technology didn't exist. Plus the under par of Sex
Rev.
Also...if you watch this DvD on the PC you will see
some VHS tape flicker at the bottom of the screen
on some of the videos. You will not on the TV set.
Why only 95% upgrade on RWA........It doesn't have
Fish Report (no real loss there then), no Brick part
2 or BD. But then RWA has artifacts & doesn't have
any of this audio.
So I think 95% is about right. |
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Technical
Stuff:
Video: NTSC
Resolution: 720x480 Mpeg 2 @29.97fps
Maximum Birate: 8300 kbps(VBR)
Aspect Ratio: 4.3 Fullscreen
Interlaced: Yes - Top Field First
Audio: Mono/Stereo LPCM @ 48000Hz1536kbps
Running Time: 68 minutes (approx)
Lineage:Various VHS,TV & DvD>Pioneer DVR 720-HS>TmpgDvD
Author>You
But a shitload of other stuff was used in the hardware
studio as well.
Video Quality: VG+ to Excellent(see footnotes for
why the VG+)
Audio Quality: Best You Will Ever Get Hold Of
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Main Menu: Yes....motion
Main Menu Audio: Yes
Track Menu: Yes Track
Menu Audio: Yes
Chapters: Yes, correct position.
Intros: Yes
Closing Credits: Yes
Cover Art: Yes |
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Track
Details:
Perfect
Sense(pt1)
Perfect Sense(pt2)
Lost Boys Calling
Radio Waves
Sexual Revolution
What God Wants
Folded Flags
Sunset Strip
Three Wishes
Four Minutes
The Tide Is Turning
The Pros & Cons Of Hitchhiking
Every Strangers Eyes
Watching TV
To me Watching TV is, was and has always been the Anthology
to have and I bloody enjoyed the re-make. Enjoy KKDvD0034
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