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I have commercial VHS tapes that are better video quality than many DVDs and wonder if some are produced on the assumption that the buying public is uncritical (probably true).Most of the latest movies are fine but I'm more interested in DVDs of musical content - operas, ballets etc and some of these are disgraceful video quality. There are exceptions like Cecilia Bartolis Vivaldi concert, which prove it CAN be done, but most are mediocre.
Maybe a lot are mostly rehashings of what was previously released on inferior VHS tape with no effort to improve quality. However there are newer releases like the Decca Houston production of Rossini's "La Cerentola" and the EMI released in 2002 Covent Garden conert by Angela Gheorghiu (both NTSC format) which are not sharp. I imported these from the UK at high expense (and was irritated to find them NTSC & not PAL) so was not pleased with the video quality. Artistically and sonically they are fine but the carelessness of video production bugs me as unecessary in what should be quality releases.
Another rant over.
John
Peace at AA
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Topic - Why are some DVDs (of music content) so relatively poor in quality? - John C. - Aussie 17:49:12 07/29/03 (13)
- Hey John, still enjoying your HLD-X9 player? - Michael 13:59:53 07/30/03 (7)
- Yes, and I'm having the audio output modified - John C. - Aussie 15:22:33 07/30/03 (6)
- Re: Yes, and I'm having the audio output modified - IPY 13:20:50 08/01/03 (3)
- HLD-X9 - rbest1_97@yahoo.com 18:41:26 08/15/03 (1)
- Re: HLD-X9 - rbest1_97@yahoo.com 09:28:38 09/01/03 (0)
- Have not detected any improvement in the video - John C. - Aussie 16:16:56 08/01/03 (0)
- Re: Yes, and I'm having the audio output modified - Michael 19:41:19 07/30/03 (1)
- Smearing & the change over to s-VHS - John C. - Aussie 16:05:04 07/31/03 (0)
- You nailed it in your first sentence - Dalancroft 08:06:02 07/30/03 (4)
- Re: You nailed it in your first sentence - caa 09:05:23 07/30/03 (3)
- Re: You nailed it in your first sentence - Dalancroft 10:15:46 07/30/03 (2)
- the gullibility of the common man - Some Guy 06:00:35 07/31/03 (1)
- Mostly agree -- one disagreement - Dalancroft 11:17:49 07/31/03 (0)
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