A warning about unofficial "Ready Steady Go" DVD's

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by PhilCohen, Mar 4, 2010.

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  1. PhilCohen

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    Quality warning: steer clear of the two recent unofficial European DVD's(sold openly on Amazon's British website) of the 1960's British music series "Ready Steady Go". They are of less than VHS quality, and the person who mastered them couldn't be bothered to disable color when transfering black & white material, so there's loads of green & purple color noise, which only worsens the attempt to achieve an acceptable picture, when cramming 160 minutes of material onto a single-layer DVD at threadbare bits rates. There's loads of blocking artifacts, and the material(as presented here) cannot withstand being displayed on a big screen T.V. .Also, there's no table of contents to easily get access to individual songs, so you have to use your chapter skip button to find individual chapters. My guess is that they were VHS recordings made from 1980's or 1990's UK rebroadcasts.
    The discs provide quantity, but they don't provide quality(even given the limitations of 1964-66 kinescopes). It's too bad that Dave Clark's selfishness results in the release of poor quality pirate product like this. Don't waste your money on these discs.
     
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