Recommendations for Music on DVD

Wadedwyer,

Oops, you sure did. Sorry about that. BTW, do you know if the new Fleetwood Mac Live in Boston DVD is in anamorphic widescreen? I was looking at it today in Circuit City but it doesn't say on the case.

Butch

Butch,

I could not confirm that the DVD is "anamorphic widescreen" since it is officially not indicated anywhere. I checked for you at AMG, Band's site, a few other places where the album is listed, however, at amazon one of the reviewer has mentioned that it is "widescreen" if that is of any help. From what I have read so far this looks like a superb DVD/album to have for any Fleetwood Mac fan.

I am glad I did this search since I am now convinced that I must get one for myself.

PS:I assumed your post was addressed to me, is that right? :)

Quadophile, yes, my message should have been addressed to you. I'm really messing up here! You would hope by now that all widescreen DVDs would be anamorphic, but that's still not always true. And concert DVDs seem to be the biggest offenders. I'll have to check around some more. Eventually one of the DVD news sites will do a review and they'll confirm one way or the other.

Butch

Just a warning while we are on the subject of specification ambiguity regarding concert DVDs. In my collection some discs do not indicate on the packaging that they contain DTS tracks when in fact they do - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Slane Castle comes to mind.

I wish this whole system was standardized (both audio and video formats) like we often see w/ DD tracks where a grid of channel number and language options represents track encoding. And along with everyone else I am amazed that all DVDs aren't anamorphic anymore.

Also, what we're starting to see more of now is CD/DVD sets, in the standard CD packaging, instead of DVD packaging. These usually have very little information about the specifications of the DVDs. Another example that comes to mind is the CD/DVD set of Gov't Mule's "The Deepest End".

Buthc