Prince and the band were truly amazing . The guitar into to Sign still blows me away ,oh and the organ intro on hot thing as well. Damnn Prince you were on FIRE still remember telling my friends back in 87 this concert film was sick. 22 years later it still is.Show some love people.Peace carmy

o'h man.....let's just say that was the first time i realized the power of music and how it can touch mind, body and soul - it was the first time i truly "experienced" music. And a experience it was in my 15 year state.

SOTT knocked me for 17 loops the first time I saw it & is still my favourite all-time number-one five-star ace concert film. I often play the Forever In My Life/It segment for non-believers & they're generally instantly converted.

Where is the proper DVD release?

udo said:

where is the release of the full concert ?

I saw this film in theatres and I went nuts....it's BRILLIANT! It was hard to stay in my seat.I wanted to get up and dance!

Easily the greatest concert film ever.

udo said:

You mean, like official? The one offered by Amazon.com in Canada is legit, GREAT quality too.

Nikademus said:

here in Belgium we also have a legal dvd of SOTT. great show. I always wanted to see the complete concert, but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere, not even in the bootleg circuits.

tomds said:

w.r.t bootleg: you didn't search well enough?
w.r.t. 'official' release: I recall that the Canadian (?) release was considered best, but is it indeed sourced from the best materials?

It's wonderful, my favorite performance is Forever in my life !


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udo said:

This is great - from Alliance Network, UK

SoulAlive said:

I especially loved the "beautiful night" performance!
All that dancin!

JayJai said:

udo said:

I did search well enough, a complete concert with the same quality as the movie isn't available as far as I know.

thedance said:

Was that one done from the closest source to the original masters?
No strange tricks or places that could do better?

Amazing dvd! I absolutely love it! I still watch it 2-3 times a year and enjoy it everytime. I remember the first time I saw it many, many years ago, I was completely blown away. I've lent the dvd to friends who are not Prince fans and even they can not deny how great it is.

The highest Prince essence. Prince's quintessence and the definitive Prince.
Always enjoyable, from here to eternity.

udo said:

http://www.amazon.ca/Prin...503&sr=8-1

I have it (this Canadian release). It's sourced from an excellent print of the original film. It also has remastered 5.1 surround-sound audio. The picture is crystal clear and has the correct aspect ratio of the theatrical release.

Prince, if U've got an extra copy of this movie laying around...Please send it to me in the mail...Thanx...~T.

squirrelgrease said:

I have that too

Sheee....I taped my SOTT off Movieplex a few years ago.

I was just sitting on my booty waiting for the next movie to come on and it said "Prince-Sign of the Times" NEXT.

I didn;t know what the hell SOTT was at the time, but you should have seen me running laps around my house trying to locate a blank tape. I got it in the VCR like right as the concert started.

I was glued to floor, mouth agape by the spectacle before me. Nothing beats Princey sliding on the floor on his back to "Housequake".

JayJai said:

It didn't get any better.Love playing it from time to time.

squirrelgrease said:

the problem is the canadian is region code 1 (USA/ Canada), it won't play in Europe (code 2)...

please correct if I'm wrong.

You can crack your DVD player. Google crack code with the type of your player and you can play this wondeful dvd.

thedance said:

I thought it was Region 0... but yeah, you can probably do a firmware crack on your player or get an inexpensive region-free player. It's also NTSC and not PAL, if that still makes a difference in Europe.

Was the film shot at 25 fps?
And who thinks region coding is an `effective` measure (a la DMCA)?

squirrelgrease said:

Its region 1. NTSC could be a problem, but i think most DVD players nowadays will play it for you I didn't have any problems.....

udo said:

I'm going to assume it was shot at a frame speed consistent with the era in which it was filmed, so probably 24p. Although the U Got The Look segment was shot on video and transferred to film stock. So the difference in frame-rate (I'm guessing 30p) and quality is definitely evident in this portion of the movie.

remko said:

I know that there can be some artifacts when playing an NTSC on a PAL player, I just wasn't sure if there were work-arounds for it.

If the screen supports NTSC and the player plays the content 'as is' without converting to PAL the quality should not be degraded.