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Something wrong with the DVD (at least mine)?
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animalkingdom said on October 19, 2006 12:01:
I tried to watch the videos from the Box’s dvd but I only get the Unplugged menu. Like the videos weren’t included at all in the dvd... As far as I understood the videos were supposed to be included in the same disc... But even on the actual disc it just says “MTV Unplugged”.
Edit: and the disc itself has no design, just blanc. Which I found a little weird compared to the 4 CD’s.
tcooh said on October 19, 2006 13:32:
My biggest question is why the dvd is so poorly packed.. I mean just in the cardboard... that way it get’s easily scratched... Not anyway near the good cd-cover cases the 4 cd’s got...
RobS said on October 19, 2006 14:35:
There had to be something to complain about, didn’t there?
I guess the only good thing is that the videos >should
room-service said on October 19, 2006 15:27:
@RobS: The 1st side uses 3,85 GB (unplugged), the 2nd one 4,29 GB (Videos), so it would fit on a single-sides DVD-9.
If they had used a double-sides DVD-9 to ensure better quality I wouldn’t say anything, but to use a double-sides DVD-5 instead of a single-sided DVD-9 is just stupid and backward (and lazy, see reason above in my last posting).
As well (as tcooh already mentioned) the cardboard-package of the DVD is holy shit, you can’t even get it out without touching on the surface and of cource the surface gets easily scratched, especially with a double-sided disc it’s the worst thing you can image to keep it like this.
roxlad said on October 19, 2006 15:56:
Even though my box hasn’t come yet I must say that I am no fan of digipaks or cardboard paper sleeve cd’s ’cos they get ruined very easily and you can’t replace them. I much prefer each cd to have it’s own case... anyhow when a box like this gets released I just place the box on the shelf for showing and the cd’s in a much safer cd holder. Now the doubt... I thought that every cd was placed in the box without a case but here I read they do have a case or did I not get it right?
room-service said on October 19, 2006 16:44:
@roxlad: The Box has four digi-cases for the four Audio-DVDs, only the DVD is in a stupid cardboard-page of the Box.
TheRain1981 said on October 19, 2006 20:45:
Correct me if I’m wrong...
So EMI simply used ’The Ballad & Pop Hits’ DVD release and burned it to one side of the DVD. Am I right to say that this is an exact duplicate of that release? What a shame if it is. MTV Unplugged, therefore, is on the other side of the DVD. Sounds cheap to me since, as stated above, it should have just been placed on one DVD-9.
Can anyone comment on the quality of the MTV Unplugged then? Is it a VHS transfer (as I expect)? How’s the sound?
room-service said on October 20, 2006 11:01:
@TheRain1981: No, they don’t use the identical TB&PH-DVD, they made after all a new menu, threw the 2 documentries away and change the order of the 37 videos a little.
BTW I made a mistake in one of my earlier posts, I 1st thought the videos DVD of the deluxe set is identical to the video-side of the Box-DVD, but the deluxe dvd only has 18 videos.
So it’s not even laziness to make the box-dvd doublesided, it’s just stupidity...
The quality is okay for a nearly 14 year old recording, sometimes a have little ’color-mistakes’ - reminds me of the OW-Video ;-)
Could be a VHS transfer, but I’m not sure.
tevensso (moderator) said on October 20, 2006 11:59:
Haven’t seen it yet, but it’s probably a professional Beta transfer.
room-service said on October 19, 2006 12:16:
It’s a double-sided DVD-5, you have to turn it around to watch the videos/the unplugged show, that’s why there’s no label on one of the sides ;-)
It would have been possible to put both on a one-sided DVD-9, but I think they simply wanted to use the video dvd of the deluxe set and just put the unplugged on the other side insted of a label, so they hadn’t to create a new menu for a dvd with both on one side :-(
JUD Edit: the f word.