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Reply #120 posted 09/30/07 4:35am

roninja1999

1.90 as well, but agree the quality is far higher, appears to have been re-remastered. I pickup the dvd a couple of years back and it was an improvement to the flat sounding VHS but this version really kicks out of my 7 speaker Pc set up. Well played Observer and thank you Prince - is he after a British Passport or something?
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Reply #121 posted 09/30/07 4:44am

royalbadness

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roninja1999 said:

1.90 as well, but agree the quality is far higher, appears to have been re-remastered. I pickup the dvd a couple of years back and it was an improvement to the flat sounding VHS but this version really kicks out of my 7 speaker Pc set up. Well played Observer and thank you Prince - is he after a British Passport or something?

Seconded, we are being truly spoilt in the UK, thank u Prince, & here I am trying to get the whole Prince thing outa my system and return to normality....no chance at the moment smile
Always cry 4 love never cry 4 pain
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Reply #122 posted 09/30/07 4:47am

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One complaint about this free version: it's one continuous chapter. I ripped the official release onto my iPod a few weeks back and was able to stick the chapters in to easily skip to songs. I wanted to re-do it with this seemingly remastered DVD.
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Reply #123 posted 09/30/07 4:53am

excessex

Brilliant! I went back to the shop to get a couple more copies for stateside homies who asked and they were actually playing the DVD on the shop TV!
Two teenage girls run the shop on Sundays and one of them couldn't be dragged away from it...
lol
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Reply #124 posted 09/30/07 4:54am

PureScience

Ellie said:

One complaint about this free version: it's one continuous chapter. I ripped the official release onto my iPod a few weeks back and was able to stick the chapters in to easily skip to songs. I wanted to re-do it with this seemingly remastered DVD.


Why do you want to skip songs!
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Reply #125 posted 09/30/07 4:56am

Exetergirl

Wow, Prince's dancing on Housequake is brilliant. I have this on video but haven't watched it for ages. Aren't we lucky people?
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Reply #126 posted 09/30/07 4:59am

excessex

Good point!
Plus mine skips through the chapters fine.

PureScience said:

Ellie said:

One complaint about this free version: it's one continuous chapter. I ripped the official release onto my iPod a few weeks back and was able to stick the chapters in to easily skip to songs. I wanted to re-do it with this seemingly remastered DVD.


Why do you want to skip songs!
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Reply #127 posted 09/30/07 7:07am

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i got mine,,and 4 free!!!,,sooo glad its available in the republic of ireland as well...

WOLFY IS HAVING A FUNKY SUNDAY...U CAN COME IF U WANT 2 BUT U CAN NEVER LEAVE.

WOLFY razz

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Welcome 2 wolfys lair!! Make love not war!!!


3121 IRELAND...U CAN COME IF U WANT 2 BUT U CAN NEVER LEAVE!!

OOOOOOH FUNKY IRELAND
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Reply #128 posted 09/30/07 7:31am

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Just sat and watched it - great I loved every minute. Newspaper was crap though biggrin
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Reply #129 posted 09/30/07 8:04am

clarityman

It does look crisp - is it really remastered? can't wait to watch it properly when I get my 50" plasma next month!! smile

Come Prince stick a remastered version of Lovesexy on the Times please!!
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Reply #130 posted 09/30/07 8:26am

excessex

LOL.
Now that's just being greedy smile

By the way, all the swear words were intact on the DVD.
So much for that theory.



clarityman said:

Come Prince stick a remastered version of Lovesexy on the Times please!!
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Reply #131 posted 09/30/07 8:33am

clarityman

excessex said:

LOL.
Now that's just being greedy smile

By the way, all the swear words were intact on the DVD.
So much for that theory.



clarityman said:

Come Prince stick a remastered version of Lovesexy on the Times please!!



lol - no my friend if I asked for The Parade Tour on the News of the World - now that would be greedy!!
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Reply #132 posted 09/30/07 8:35am

excessex

LOL. That's the most ridiculous thing I ever hoyd!
smile smile

clarityman said:

excessex said:

LOL.
Now that's just being greedy smile

By the way, all the swear words were intact on the DVD.
So much for that theory.






lol - no my friend if I asked for The Parade Tour on the News of the World - now that would be greedy!!
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Reply #133 posted 09/30/07 8:36am

excessex

Some people are just never satisfied!

LOL

smile


callthenurse said:

Just sat and watched it - great I loved every minute. Newspaper was crap though biggrin
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Reply #134 posted 09/30/07 8:43am

callthenurse

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excessex said:

Some people are just never satisfied!

LOL

smile


callthenurse said:

Just sat and watched it - great I loved every minute. Newspaper was crap though biggrin

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Reply #135 posted 09/30/07 9:21am

clarityman

excessex said:

Some people are just never satisfied!

LOL

smile


callthenurse said:

Just sat and watched it - great I loved every minute. Newspaper was crap though biggrin



Well as he's offering - as they say round these parts! never look a gift horse in the mouth - not that I'm comparing anyones mouth to a horse's!! lol
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Reply #136 posted 09/30/07 9:24am

PurpleJedi

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bawl

...is this Prince's way of telling USA fans that they should pack up and move to England?
By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory!
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Reply #137 posted 09/30/07 9:41am

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roninja1999 said:

1.90 as well, but agree the quality is far higher, appears to have been re-remastered. I pickup the dvd a couple of years back and it was an improvement to the flat sounding VHS but this version really kicks out of my 7 speaker Pc set up. Well played Observer and thank you Prince - is he after a British Passport or something?


It is a huge improvement on the VHS and German/Dutch DVD versions available to date, but here's a weird thing:

I have the Canadian remaster (which is the dog's bollocks). The picture and sound quality seem almost as good, if not in 5.1 but the sound is half a note sharp! They must have compressed the sound or something. I tried playing my guitar along to it and had to slide up a fret. Then I put on the Canadian DVD and my guitar was in perfect tune. Very strange!

That means that the film with the Observer is slightly shorter. Ask for yer fucking money back!

nuts
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Reply #138 posted 09/30/07 10:20am

excessex

I put it on this morning but wasn't watching properly as I mosied around but when I was out of the room, Iremeber thinking 'That sounds awfully fast'. Sure enough, you've confirmed it!
I shall be writing to my MP!
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eightiesmusicculture said: The picture and sound quality seem almost as good, if not in 5.1 but the sound is half a note sharp! [/quote]
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Reply #139 posted 09/30/07 11:17am

sosgemini

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who's living in the past now?
Space for sale...
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Reply #140 posted 09/30/07 11:22am

JoeTyler

I don't care about this; I bought this DVD almost two years ago and I have seen it more than 12 times...
tinkerbell
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Reply #141 posted 09/30/07 11:55am

PureScience

psychodelicide said:

SquirrelMeat said:

God the Americans act like spoilt brats. No wonder he prefers it in Europe!


Pardon me? Prince plays in Europe for 21 nights, not including all of the aftershows, and some of the Europeans have the nerve to moan and complain about everything.


He didn't play every after show.
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Reply #142 posted 09/30/07 12:37pm

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eightiesmusicculture said:

roninja1999 said:

1.90 as well, but agree the quality is far higher, appears to have been re-remastered. I pickup the dvd a couple of years back and it was an improvement to the flat sounding VHS but this version really kicks out of my 7 speaker Pc set up. Well played Observer and thank you Prince - is he after a British Passport or something?


It is a huge improvement on the VHS and German/Dutch DVD versions available to date, but here's a weird thing:

I have the Canadian remaster (which is the dog's bollocks). The picture and sound quality seem almost as good, if not in 5.1 but the sound is half a note sharp! They must have compressed the sound or something. I tried playing my guitar along to it and had to slide up a fret. Then I put on the Canadian DVD and my guitar was in perfect tune. Very strange!

That means that the film with the Observer is slightly shorter. Ask for yer fucking money back!

nuts


This would be as a result of the PAL speed up. The Canadian release will be in NTSC whereas the Observer DVD is PAL which runs 4% faster due to the differing frame rates between the two formats. Most people can't notice the difference, but some people can and you obviously fall into that category.
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Reply #143 posted 09/30/07 12:41pm

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eightiesmusicculture said:

roninja1999 said:

1.90 as well, but agree the quality is far higher, appears to have been re-remastered. I pickup the dvd a couple of years back and it was an improvement to the flat sounding VHS but this version really kicks out of my 7 speaker Pc set up. Well played Observer and thank you Prince - is he after a British Passport or something?


It is a huge improvement on the VHS and German/Dutch DVD versions available to date, but here's a weird thing:

I have the Canadian remaster (which is the dog's bollocks). The picture and sound quality seem almost as good, if not in 5.1 but the sound is half a note sharp! They must have compressed the sound or something. I tried playing my guitar along to it and had to slide up a fret. Then I put on the Canadian DVD and my guitar was in perfect tune. Very strange!

That means that the film with the Observer is slightly shorter. Ask for yer fucking money back!

nuts

I find it even more exciting ! This and the Lovesexy concert were as much theatrical events as musically thrilling, and my DVD player appearing to be on speed while playing this matters not a bit smile
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Reply #144 posted 09/30/07 1:26pm

excessex

Great info. Love the copyright notice. It's a HIT!
smile
However, I did see a programme last year (?) with Davic Byrne talking about the making of Stop Making Sense and that too had to have additional bits filmed to tie it all up and does have overdubs etc. Seems to be par for the course with live shows. Wings' 'Rockshow' from McCartney's 1976 tour had such extensive dubbing that it didn't come out for a few years after the live CD by which time McCartney was said to be less happy with the soundtrack than at the start of the process!
What is different about SOTT is that Prince takes this 'vanity' fixing way off the rails until it's become something funky in itself. I remember having doubts about the vignettes all the way through my first viewing (cinema) but at the end thinking 'That just set a new bar for a performance movie'

Still don't know of anything that's touched it but it is kind of in a category of its own a kind of concept album live show theatrical cinema wossname. Unless you count 'Slade in Flame' wink





BartVanHemelen said:

Savage said:

Will Prince have made this deal or will it be Warners getting at Prince by giving this away?


The stupidity of some fans... Yeah, it was WB who gave the LRC clip from the SOTT movie to the makers of Corvette for an ad campaign a couple of eyars ago. Oh wait, no, that was Prince whoring out one of his "children". PRINCE owns the SOTT movie. That's why it wasn't on DVD for years, FYI.

Not that this is a secret, you can figure it out by LOOKING AT THE COVER OF THE VHS/DVD. Or by LOOKING AT THE MOVIE.

And if you don't have it, LOOK IT UP:

http://www.imdb.com/title...anycredits -- do you see WB somewhere in that list?

Now let's compare that to http://www.imdb.com/title...anycredits , http://www.imdb.com/title...anycredits , and http://www.imdb.com/title...anycredits

All this stupid anti-WB crap: I dare you to find a single artist who's had more leniency from his record label. Just look at all the crap the fans have had to put up with since the mid-1990s: do you think that wasn't happening before? Of course it was, except back then we didn't know about it because it stopped at his managers and/or his record company.

They stopped the release of The Black Album LESS THAN A WEEK before the release on Prince's request. My god, what evil bastards. They let him out of his contract while he hadn't delivered all of the required albums -- how dare they? They took his opinion into consideration when compiling the latest Greatest Hits -- what inconsiderate assholes. They lost MILLIONS by funding Paisley park records.

Warners haven't done a single thing to spite Prince, even though he has told numerous lies about them. Warners could easily have sued him dozens of times, and could have easily bankrupted him in the process. If they'd pulled all the shit that Prince has pulled on people like Levi Seacer or Margie Cox, then you'd have a point. Except they didn't, and instead it's PRINCE who's exploited artists, who's tied them to harsh contracts, who's screwed people out of money.

And the fans asking for copies from the UK: WTF? Learn about PAL speed-up: this is a R2 DVD so that means it's in PAL which means there's a 2% or so speedup of the movie. And yeah, it is noticable. Sheesh, just buy the Canadian release that was sourced from a HD-master.

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Reply #145 posted 09/30/07 1:29pm

roninja1999

Those late 80's gigs were awesome, and then some...
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Reply #146 posted 09/30/07 1:34pm

roninja1999

roninja1999 said:

Those late 80's gigs were awesome, and then some...


The Observer version does sound better than the Canadian version i got...then again i better find it and check again lol.
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Reply #147 posted 09/30/07 1:37pm

excessex

I think the Observer version is incredible for a freebie. Incredible colour, definition and, yes, the audio is fantastic.
It'll have to do me as there's no way I'm traipsing all the way to Canada and back just to get an extra speaker on it or something.

wink

roninja1999 said:

roninja1999 said:

Those late 80's gigs were awesome, and then some...


The Observer version does sound better than the Canadian version i got...then again i better find it and check again lol.
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Reply #148 posted 09/30/07 1:38pm

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PureScience said:

psychodelicide said:



Pardon me? Prince plays in Europe for 21 nights, not including all of the aftershows, and some of the Europeans have the nerve to moan and complain about everything.


He didn't play every after show.


nod I know he didn't do an aftershow every night.
RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you.
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Reply #149 posted 09/30/07 1:41pm

excessex

He DID do an aftershow every night. It's just some of them were more conceptual than musical. Like the one where he was just about to pick up his guitar but then felt like going for a margarita at Pizza Hut instead. That was OK but he seemed hesitant when they asked what toppings he wanted. Not a confident performance, I thought.



psychodelicide said:

PureScience said:



He didn't play every after show.


nod I know he didn't do an aftershow every night.
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