LittleGirl78 said on November 16, 2003 18:06:

Are that the pics from the german release? :o)
Because there is “Freigegeben ohne Altersbeschränkung” :-/
Is that already aviable or where from you have the pics? I want to have the DVD, too. ;-)

*edit*
OK. I saw you from Switzerland, the same language. Is that then already aviable in your country? :o)

Grasi said on November 16, 2003 18:15:

Thank you so much for sharing these pics with us! The artwork is cool :D
Im so happy.. althouh I already have the All videos ever made... Im happy cos Roxette will finnaly have a DVD here in Brazil.

Thanx again!!

gyllene_tjej said on November 16, 2003 18:20:

thanks! Obviously it is NOT worth buying, not even the artwork could convince me... seems like it was fixed in a rush...

erweetiran said on November 16, 2003 20:27:

Thanks the scans are great, do you have some screen shots of the menu, how does the dvd start like the previous one had the yellow letters scrolling on a red background...you know what I mean...

DaminehGessle said on November 16, 2003 22:29:

I know which one you mean now. The 2nd one. the last one is fine though.

Denstandigaresan said on November 16, 2003 22:35:

Yeah, 2nd one... but The Pop hit’s isn’t listed... it goes from...
Milk & Toast & Honey, to Opportunity Nox... All listed under the Ballad Hits.
Na, I’m not loosing my mind, checked, triple checked. :D

MiracleMan said on November 17, 2003 03:42:

Well, my appetite is whetted! I told my friend, when she asked what I wanted, to get this DVD for me for Christmas, and now I want Christmas to be early.

eduard33 said on November 17, 2003 08:44:

Is it a double or single DVD? PAL, NTSC or there are both releases?

sweepi said on November 17, 2003 11:18:

eduard33: “Is it a double or single DVD?”

Wondering the same myself... The FanShop has it listed as a 2 DVD release (Ginza had too but now they don’t?)... Yet there’s only 1 disc among Oliver’s pix... So I’m guessing it isn’t a 2 DVD after all?... (And in the end yes they indeed skipped those 5 extra videos from “All The Videos Ever Made & More”... and “The Look” visible mix... such a pity... :( Was still hoping... Too bad... *sigh*)

coyboyusa said on November 17, 2003 14:45:

i;m gonna throw away or sell my european one and get the americna release if it has the same track listing its awesaome i hope they fixed the dvd interaction!

ATLTK said on November 17, 2003 16:05:

is it any posters avalibale for it

Oliver said on November 17, 2003 18:35:

Here are some pics from the menu. If I remember right, the old version didn´t include information about title/director/duration/...(see “Chances”, “Un dia sin ti”).

http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd0.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd1.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd2.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd3.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd4.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd5.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd6.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd7.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd8.jpg
http://roxette.cs.caltech.edu/oli/dvd9.jpg

Tracks were compiled exactly the same as the CD´s, all other tracks are listed under extras.

roxlad said on November 17, 2003 19:52:

does it come in a case or is it paperboxed?

ATLTK said on November 17, 2003 20:28:

any posters?

tevensso (moderator) said on November 17, 2003 20:59:

Ted, quit it!!

ATLTK said on November 17, 2003 21:03:

dosent all european countries release it today

Markuz said on November 18, 2003 02:51:

*agrees with RoxBang2003*

How stupid is that? VERY.

Mmmm... Maybe its some kind of subtitle that you can remove, like in Madonna´s Girlie Show Live Down Under DVD, you can remove the name of each live track and the stupid coments (like “salsa music playing”, “computer generated male voice”, “funky bass intro” or “rain falling” - that was a killer... not!).

Ah... this is an EMI Release, I forgot...

DaminehGessle said on November 18, 2003 07:37:

Too many complaints. I don’t know where you guys are from. But where I am from, even if they release one song per DVD, that would make me happy. We don’t get to have Per throw concerts here and Roxette sign posters and .... Stop complaining.

Sascha said on November 18, 2003 07:55:

Thanx for the screenshots as well! I’m not too much in love with all that pink - but I like the heavy use of the Roxette Recordings logo and the portraits!

Roxbang2003 said on November 18, 2003 11:51:

Well, every1, I‘m not the “only-complain” kind of person...but as a fan, I have to point out the flaws on Roxette‘s releases.
I STILL think it‘s insane and (as Markus pointed out) stupid to let those “director, album etc” information appear on the videos. Come on, it’s a DVD release...doesn‘t it come with a booklet with that information???
As far as my DVD-experience goes, when they REALLY need to show that information on screen, they do so by adding a STILL screen BEFORE the video starts.
(check Celine Dion & Shania Twain DVDs for ex.)
But, still, I‘m very happy with the release here in Brazil and hopefully it will be a succesfull one!

ditroia said on November 18, 2003 16:12:

Ok Are the IMHBL and AU Clips the Theatrical ones of the Roxette Ones like on the DBU-GTTC Video?

What is the quality like on The Older Clips? Is it better that All The Videos..?

Is the WICF Video UNCUT [Do you see Breasts?]

If someone has both the PAL version Either All Videos or The New DVD and the NTSC Version can Someone compare the quality and the pitch of the Audio?

Thanx

Dave

_____________

My perfect DVD.

2 Disc Set

All Clips Uncut & Digitally Rematered/

Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround encoded [Where Available] 384k

Both Theatrical and Roxette Only Soundtrack Clips.

Roxette Retrospecive Intro To Each Clip.

Detailed Info on Each Clip eg. Date, Locations, Cast, budget, trivia etc.

Original EPK’s and Making of’s [Like the one MTV did for SIMC]

More Live/Playback performances and Rare Clips.

Photo Gallery

Alternate Footage/Deleted Scenes [Eg. Early CBB Video]

All WideScreen Videos Anamorphically Enhanced.

More Documentaries, either existing ones or New Ones.

DVD ROM Extras, eg. Themes/Screensavers/Weblinks/Games/etc.

Feel Free To Add more

Jud (moderator) said on November 18, 2003 18:40:

the info about the video (director etc) stays there during all the video? or in the beginning or??? can u switch it off??

ChrisWilliams said on November 18, 2003 21:08:

Stay calm, everyone. If it disappears when you do *something* (see above comment) to the DVD, it means it hasn’t been printed onto the film, and is just an extra. This means there must be some way to get rid of it :-)

I’d have gone bonkers if they’d left that on. And as someone said before me, it is odd that they have a pic of the TV performance to represent It Must Have Been Love, when it’s noted in the booklet that it’s the “Pretty Woman Version”.

A real shame they didn’t take more time over this... or at the very least, get a someone from TDR or the Fan Club to check through it before it was released.

ChrisWilliams said on November 18, 2003 21:09:

Hope you understood the rubbish I wrote above. Believe it or not, I’m an English native.

coyboyusa said on November 19, 2003 04:22:

wow such fickle whiners no wonder they are on a break their ears must bleed from all the bitching

Ferdan said on November 19, 2003 07:52:

anyone willing to make a rip of the subtitles?

Roxbang2003 said on November 19, 2003 11:29:

I hope there‘s a subtitle feature that shows the lyrics! I mean, it‘s SUCH a great feature of DVDs nowadays.
And, if the annoying “information” on the begginning of each video is not ’printed’ on the videos... then maybe there‘s a hope after all...
can‘t really understand some EMI decisions...I would wait ONE MORE year, if that‘s the time they need to deliver THE perfect DVD...

ps: by the way, NOTHING on earth will ever make me forgive them for the “Main MENY” mistake on the old DVD.. I mean...HOW dumb you can get ?

coyboyusa said on November 19, 2003 22:36:

you guys have to rember to that alot of the production of dvd’s is done to outsourced companies not emi’s main picture company...it looks great shut up! having a fan go over the dvd would be a bit insane...what do any of you knwo about international marketing...and lets rmeber emi is still in a low profit situation the fact roxette is releasing an INTERNATIONAL dvd is a miracle so shut up

DaminehGessle said on November 20, 2003 01:24:

coyboy 100% agree with you.
What the hell is wrong with everyone? Which band in the world ever gets a fan to check for them? Be realistic!!! So they make a mistake. Is that the end of the world? Jeeez.... Just let it go. Put the DVD in your DVD player and watch it. If it looks cheap or not worth paying for, don’t buy it. As simple as that. Why argue so much over stupid mistakes and what you would do to make it better. Write to EMI or whoever in charge and explain your views. They might consider them. It’s easy to talk rather than do things eh?!?!

Ferdan said on November 20, 2003 04:43:

A bad quality release affects Roxette, it doesn’t help. Specially when it comes to DVD media, a media in expansion, a media wich is taking its expansive force from one simple reason, quality: Quality of picture, quality of sound and quality in presentation at a relatively low price compared to what CD has to offer, that’s why DVD is the media with the biggest expansion in the last years. The biggest DVD consumers enjoy buying DVDs because in the average, they know they’re getting quality... some simply walk by the DVD’s section of the shop and buy a few... and when they get a bad one they won’t be buying another from the same releaser/title/band, etc.

As for the reasons that made this Roxette product “not as good” as it should, “we” aren’t even talking about quality in terms of “amount of money invested in the product”. “We” are talking about human mistakes that are independent of money, investments or significant aditional work time. We are talking about some kind of “negligence” or simple incompetent people doing a supposed to be professional work of an Internationally known professional band. Or it could even worse, people subestimating Roxette.

So complaining about it is protecting our own pokets in the future and in a way, helping Roxette.
I have some other DVD from other bands and solists... even smaller than Roxette, or national bands with no international projection, that offered a DVD with better quality, by simply taking care of making it good!... you don’t even need more money.
In my opinion a band like Roxette deserves a perfect DVD release, I´m not talking about fancy features, I´m talking just about a responsible job and responsible people making it, thing that is not impossible.

If you don’t think Roxette deserves better, well... you must have your reasons.

erweetiran said on November 20, 2003 05:54:

1-2-3-4 Go Ferdan! Go Ferdan! Go Ferdan! You Rock! You Rock! You Rock!

...wait isn’t that a song?

p.s could people that have the dvd please compare the video quality of this release to the previous one and which versions of WICF, AU and IMHBL are they using? oh forgot to say please.

roxlad said on November 20, 2003 12:56:

...and Joyride had a sync problem on the old one...

erweetiran said on November 20, 2003 14:48:

FOR ALOT OF PEOPLE SOMETHING SMALL IS A BIG DEAL SO IF IT IS NOT A BIG DEAL FOR YOU THEN RESPECT THAT IT IS FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

Maybe they would like to have a nice menu design and gets very disapointed when they see it, to you it might seem stupid but to them it is not. So that is why when Roxette release something they should do it the BEST they can and not just give it a highschool job

We are only saying: “If you want to do something, do it properly or leave it!” The fact that they are not more famous as they use to be does not mean the can go around and produce “half-effort” material! I mean like the MENY mistake they had on the previous one! My lecturer always have a FIT if we have spelling mistakes because it is UNPROFESSIONAL (excuse mine in this one ;o))

The fact is I still want to buy the dvd and I will EXPECT of it to be EXCELENT quality because that is what I am paying for. If they want to release stuff like this they should do it the right way or rather leave it!

FOR ALOT OF PEOPLE SOMETHING SMALL IS A BIG DEAL SO IF IT IS NOT A BIG DEAL FOR YOU THEN RESPECT THAT IT IS FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

Maybe they would like to have a nice menu design and gets very disapointed when they see it, to you it might seem stupid but to them it is not. So that is why when Roxette release something they should do it the BEST they can and not just give it a highschool job

ditroia said on November 21, 2003 02:57:

Well Said ferdan.

In Reality All that we really want is ALL of Roxette’s Videos Uncut and in reasonable condition.
I mean the Audio Bitrate for the first DVD was Sooo low that even the Official Roxette VCD had a Higher Bitrate.

It seems as if EMI has never ever made any NEW masters of Roxettes Video Clips.

I will be buying the new DVD and Comparing it with

1. the Orginal DVD

2. The Official VCD

3. DBU-GTTC VHS

4. Some Promo VHS’s

5. MPEG 1 Clips from ther Cd Maxis.

Cheers

Dave

erweetiran said on November 22, 2003 07:34:

Just to add:

Personal preferance:
I kinda expect of the the whole package deal: sleeve design, graphic design ect. to be at the same level as the music...so I would kinda like a great package to compliment the great music that is on it if you understand what I am trying to see...but like Per once said: He doesn’t really care that much about the sleeve designs ect. and I think that is a BIG mistake because to have something that looks cheap be the face of your “Best ever songs”...that is a bad thing

Jud (moderator) said on November 22, 2003 17:05:

Exactly Ferdan!

fans won’t give the product back, or will keep on buying even if the quality isn’t as good as it should be.. but if we think “damn, another spelling mistake” what do you think reviewers and other professionals or even ppl who isn’t a big Rox fan will think?

It doesn’t take so much to realise about these small details that make you think the person sitting in front of the screen designing the cover is a) unprofessional b) doesn’t care bout her/his job....

I mean.. yeah, EMI ppl may not have done the layout, but hell, I guess they have looked at it! Nobody realised? It would have taken just 5 minutes to write “The pop hits” in there! Or to write “menU” instead of “meny” (we fans know this is the word for Menu in Swedish, but others may not know that and think “jeez they can’t spell”)...

MiracleMan said on November 22, 2003 19:07:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

roxtexanet said on November 26, 2003 20:07:

Got it! In Vancouver, Canada, at the Future Shop down the street from my apartment (after wasting an hour and a half looking for it downtown... grrr!). I love it, but then, this is the first Roxette DVD in NTSC, so that probably has a lot to do with it. I only get the information at the beginning of each video if the subtitles are turned on; otherwise, I get just the video. Has anyone succeeded in getting the random play feature to work?

Markuz said on November 26, 2003 22:19:

ATLTK: NO, there are NO posters and there WON’T BE any posters for the DVD.

Denstandigaresan said on November 27, 2003 00:20:

Yeah, gimme some of that MM... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ted, the ’Any Posters’ question is getting too frequent on here. You know the reaction people get it being asked all the time. I don’t get why you continue to ask.

erweetiran said on November 27, 2003 07:34:

so the question have been asked before but somehow it is STILL unaswered:

What is the quality of the videos in the new DVD compared to the last one?

MiracleMan said on November 28, 2003 06:45:

IT’S BEEN SHIPPED!!!! *dancing crazily—but on the inside (I’ll be weetting myself when I get it next week)*

MiracleMan said on November 28, 2003 21:05:

GOT IT THIS MORING! I was expecting it next Wednesday at the earliest. Go Amazon Cananda.

Good quality. Any distortion I’d say was deliberate on the directors part. (Corbijn—I’m talkin’ to you. Fish? Really?)

The labels, as I think I saw before, are only visible for about ten seconds at the beginning of the song (I didn’t time it) and only with the subtitle function on—and I’ll go out on a limb and say that’sthe DVD setting to beginwith.

There’s no random play, at least not labelled so you can see it, but if you select the PLAY ALL function, the videos will play all the way through and then loop back to the start and play them all over again.