QueenZone discussion #1445685

DepeX wrote: Hello everybody, I've just discovered this HD stream from the recent BBC broadcast of this great documentary. I don't know if it's the best circulating. If you have a better version, please share it. Enjoy.

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

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Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

pittrek wrote:

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

Looks fantastic to me. At least for a videotape from 1976,

pittrek wrote:

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It is labelled as WEBRip, but it's definitely not from Netflix :-) It looks too good to be recorded from the BBC web stream

pittrek wrote:

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

Looks fantastic to me. At least for a videotape from 1976,

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

It's ridiculous - it's a concert from 1976. Nobody expects it to look or sound perfect. It's Queen. People want to hear it. There's way shittier quality footage on youtube with hundreds of thousands of views, but they seem to be fine with that. QP logic.

Rick wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote:

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

It's ridiculous - it's a concert from 1976. Nobody expects it to look or sound perfect. It's Queen. People want to hear it. There's way shittier quality footage on youtube with hundreds of thousands of views, but they seem to be fine with that. QP logic.

I know, Bob. I really hope they will release it eventually. It was such an important gig for them. Great setlist, too.

DepeX wrote: For sure, Kurgan's video is by far the best circulating. Unless someone shares his version

pittrek wrote: Yes, that's what I kept saying since the last year's Rainbow release - the BBC have a great looking copy (we have seen it in various documentaries over the years) but for some reason Queen released a red faded transfer. Or at least I hope it was faded, and that it wasn't a result of a deliberate "color correction".

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

Mrmarioanonym wrote: is the large excerpt from Death On Two Legs from the second night at EC or did they fly in the "overgrown schoolboy" from elsewehre?

rocknrolllover wrote:

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

Can you show a screenshot showing the damage ? Because I didn't notice,

Rick wrote:

rocknrolllover wrote:

Rick wrote: Thanks! The EC and HP bits are fantastic. I can see why they have doubts about releasing HP. The video is pretty damaged.

Can you show a screenshot showing the damage ? Because I didn't notice,

When the camera is on Freddie you see these weird lines/artifacts. But I guess that comes with age. It's nothing too major. Guess I was overreacting a bit ;-)

DepeX wrote: I think someone uploaded the entire doc on YouTube with subtitles

pittrek wrote: Yes, that's what I kept saying since the last year's Rainbow release - the BBC have a great looking copy (we have seen it in various documentaries over the years) but for some reason Queen released a red faded transfer. Or at least I hope it was faded, and that it wasn't a result of a deliberate "color correction".

Oscar J wrote: I'm going to get shit for this, but I kinda like the red faded look. :)

MERQRY wrote: Oh, thanks Nitro! That's what i said! I hadn't the time to doing myself so it's nice to watch it. And as Pittrek says it's likely another source. Maybe (just speculations) in the bbc archives there's more from that gig, perhaps that "lost" copy of 38 minutes.

Ale Solan wrote:

Oscar J wrote: I'm going to get shit for this, but I kinda like the red faded look. :)

For fuck's sake, why?

GinjaNinja wrote: It looks to me as if the BBC source is not a new transfer from film, but rather an old videotape copy of the film. It doesn't have any of the fine grain detail you might expect to see, and has some weird interlacing issues (if you pause the YouTube video, you will see a sort of blurring effect due to consecutive frames overlapping).

The Real Wizard wrote:

MERQRY wrote: Oh, thanks Nitro! That's what i said! I hadn't the time to doing myself so it's nice to watch it. And as Pittrek says it's likely another source. Maybe (just speculations) in the bbc archives there's more from that gig, perhaps that "lost" copy of 38 minutes.

Indeed - it's a different source (or at least, transfer) anyway. But something tells me only these two songs exist. This documentary would've been an excellent chance to show something new if it did exist.