Sunday, December 17, 2006

ABBA IN POLAND - COVER SHOT-FANTASTIC CLARITY OF PICTURE!




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ABBA IN POLAND , the whole show from when Benny, Bjorn and Frida fly out to Poland to meet Agnetha right until their departure from Poland. Why was this show not included on "DeLuxe Arrival"? It seems so perfect for inclusion of the recent DVD release!

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CLARIFICATION OF STATUS OF SOUNDTRACK FROM COMMENTS RECEIVED REGARDING MONO TO STEREO SOUND:

As this show contains all music performed to "live playback", ie: The group lip synched to the studio version of the songs, the mono sound only remains for any spoken parts, applause etc, when a song begins it is overdubbed by stereo, the mono then fades away to leave a 100% stereo rendition of the song, and at the end once again overlaps from stereo to mono applause.


I had two source tapes of the show, one with excellent picture but awful sound, the other with good sound and awful picture, so I have taken the best of both and married them together to get excellent sound and picture (with absolutely NO TV Station ID in corner of the screen.

The stereo soundtrack overlaps from mono applause and spoken word to the digital stereo surround music, therefore seeming seamless. A technique I used extensively on the REVISITED DVDs etc (Listed below this entry). The results are lovely!

I have also added a "First Play" slide show, this plays first when inserting the DVD into the player, some nice "Arrival" period pictures to the soundtrack of "Arrival", then the DVD goes to another menu screen where you can select to play the ABBA In Poland show in its entirity.




I also added chapter points at the relevant starts of each song performed. At the end the show ends with "Arrival" so rather than fade this out when the credits end, I continued with a few more pictures like a slideshow again to end the track at the correct ending place. Therefore the show runs for approximately 48 or 49 minutes.

RESULTS ARE STUNNING!

Saturday, December 16, 2006

AGNETHA FĂ„LTSKOG - CAN'T SHAKE LOOSE LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW 1983 WITH GOLDEN EGG BLOOPERS!

A very funny clip from my own video collection. Recorded in Betamax video (remember that!?), transferred to VHS in the late 80's, restored and transferred to DVD and included on REVISITED 1 in full. Here the clip is in a shortened version (to maintain YouTube upload constraints). Playing Tip: Click load, wait a little for the red slider to move fully to the right, or stop the slider and nudge back and click pause until loaded fully.



As you will notice, a small part of the video is damaged due to storage on Betamax video, but I restored what I could and added a stereo soundtrack for the song. The full version, caption free is on REVISITED 1.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME FROM SHOW EXPRESS 1982 ENHANCED TO DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO



PLAYING TIP: Let the clip load by allowing the red slider to load fully. If it begins before loading fully, stop the play and allow the red slider to move completely to the right, then click play.

Enhanced video from 1982 "Show Express", with best quality picture and digital stereo sound, includes background applause underlaid and a new ending to the video. Taken from REVISITED 2 double DVD, details in REVISITED 2 post below.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

ABBA REVISITED 3-DVD COVER PICTURE



The new Revisited 3 DVD Many, many favourite clips taken, revitalisted and new digital stereo sound added to all of the clips.
For a list of tracks simply click on the pictures and zoom in!

ABBA REVISITED 3, MENU 1



When interting the DVD, after the initial "welcome" first play video, you go to the on screen menus. From here you can select what you wish to do. Either click the main default arrow and then go into "play all tracks" mode, or click the other buttons and highlight the track you wish to play, once that track is finished the DVD goes back to the menu you selected from initially.

ABBA REVISITED 3, MENU 2



If you have a stereo TV system, you can change settings to change the stereo sound options, you can select Dolby Digital sound or "simulated" sound. The DVDs support these functions.

ABBA REVISITED 3 MENU 3

ABBA REVISITED 3-HOW IT LOOKS OUT OF THE BOX

Saturday, December 02, 2006

TAKE A CHANCE ON ME "STAR PARADE" STEREO EDIT WITH COLD ENDING!



This never available mix is now stereo on this video. The mono sound was "emulated" thus stereo now at the correct points. It is edited towards the end, making the song shorter for "Star Parade" with a "cold ending" performed, the version is not available anywhere in stereo, so here it is now in stereo!

The full clip is taken from REVISITED 3 DVD, details below...

Friday, December 01, 2006

UPDATED VIDEO CLIP ! I AM THE CITY A.D. 2347 !



A fictitious year for this fun clip to a single that never was! Guess the extracts during the clip!
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