Quality of the Festival DVD ?

Started by freshlysquashedfly, November 28, 2006, 22:12:04

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How do you rate the new DVD

Poor Sound and Picture
Poor Production
Poor in Places
Good all Rounder
Great Production
Great Sound and Picture
I'm a Fanatic - It's Great !!
Other

freshlysquashedfly

I know 3 three Cure fans who have all bought the new Festival DVD - and so far all of us think it could of been a lot better than it is ?

Let's find out out what we all think  :smth001

Discuss it here !!

strange_day

I think it could have been better, i dont like Open at all, but i watched it all the way through and i think they should have put it onto 2 discs, improving the picture and sound quality and maybe room for some extras.........having said that there are some versions i really like, Push, 100 Years, The Drowning Man, The Baby screams, Figurehead etc, but i think in places you dont need songs like Plainsong, Disintegration and Us Or Them, which were poorly played last year, the picture quality is ok, but in some songs it gets on my nerves a bit......hope the new album doesnt compromise on quality....overall its ok.

Dillinger

i only managed to get in the first few tracks (will finish it tonight) and already i thought it wasnt very consistent, i agree open wasnt very nice. also agree about the track listing, i love the long album closing tracks aswell but i dont think we need them all on this kind of dvd. i would have been more happy if they had included other songs i like and just used a forest as the long track to end with

etkimi

As I say in another topic, the sound seems to be maybe more poor but absolutly more "live", than in Trylogy for example.


Etkimi
Crying at the funeral party...

lostflower4

Quote from: strange_day on November 28, 2006, 22:24:53
I think it could have been better, i dont like Open at all, but i watched it all the way through and i think they should have put it onto 2 discs, improving the picture and sound quality and maybe room for some extras.........

It's a dual-layer disc, so I don't think this is the problem. There's even some extra space left on it. I just think some of the sources were poor, and I do not believe that any of this is from fan recordings. Instead, the band commissioned people to stand in the audience with (cheap) DV camcorders. The funny thing is that a lot of the private fan videos are better than what appears on this DVD... :roll:

[labyrinth]

Quote from: lostflower4 on December 11, 2006, 03:12:21
Instead, the band commissioned people to stand in the audience with (cheap) DV camcorders.

it's definitely in this way!
you're right ! :)

agusramirez

I really like the Sound, 5.1 DTS !!!! :rocker

The Picture is not the best and as Caley mentioned, there are some better recordigd from some fans.

Regards...


AR

super-80s-demon

I'm really dissappointed at the reactions to this DVD.
I read these reviews a few days ago because I knew I was getting Festival 2005 for Christmas. The reviews bummed me out and made me feel like I was going to get a lousy gift....

....until I put on the DVD.
I've only watched three songs so far and I'm actually really happy with the quality.
There's only one or two "fuzzy" angles and I really don't see what the big fuss is.
What you have to bear in mind is that this was put together while the band was working on an album. The intent of this DVD is to have a sort of "at the show" type of perspective.
It kind of reminds me of Play Out. :3
I think we should be thankful that we got something to tide us over until the new album release before the year was over.

Anyways, that's just my opinion. I'm not trying to sway anyone else's.

clubsmith82

Its not just the quality of the DVD, the Cure have become a really boring band in terms of live performance. I was almost nodding off to sleep at the Royal Albert Hall back in April. I know the Cure were never exactly the most exciting band to look at anyway but there's something else adrift...they just look tired and yes, old.

[labyrinth]

Quote from: clubsmith82 on December 30, 2006, 04:15:59
Its not just the quality of the DVD, the Cure have become a really boring band in terms of live performance. I was almost nodding off to sleep at the Royal Albert Hall back in April. I know the Cure were never exactly the most exciting band to look at anyway but there's something else adrift...they just look tired and yes, old.

well i know people who saw them at the RAH and went out absolutely amazed and incredibly thrilled by The Cure and their "fresh" performance...
i really don't know anyone who bored at their show (not even some of my friends who doesn't really know who The Cure was when i they came with me for their shows).you're the first person...
however, every opinion has to be respected...and i respect yours... but i absolutely disagree with you  ;)

intothetrees

Quote from: [labyrinth] on December 30, 2006, 11:44:19
Quote from: clubsmith82 on December 30, 2006, 04:15:59
Its not just the quality of the DVD, the Cure have become a really boring band in terms of live performance. I was almost nodding off to sleep at the Royal Albert Hall back in April. I know the Cure were never exactly the most exciting band to look at anyway but there's something else adrift...they just look tired and yes, old.

well i know people who saw them at the RAH and went out absolutely amazed and incredibly thrilled by The Cure and their "fresh" performance...
i really don't know anyone who bored at their show (not even some of my friends who doesn't really know who The Cure was when i they came with me for their shows).you're the first person...
however, every opinion has to be respected...and i respect yours... but i absolutely disagree with you  ;)

Yeah, the RAH show was amazing.  :smth023

The band seems less tired and less old than in 2004 for example. The problem in 2005 was the sound (difficult to hear Porl's guitar) (but at the RAH show in 2006 it was perfect !!!).

But I miss the keyboards for some songs ...  :cry:

japanesebaby

Quote from: lostflower4 on December 11, 2006, 03:12:21
Instead, the band commissioned people to stand in the audience with (cheap) DV camcorders. The funny thing is that a lot of the private fan videos are better than what appears on this DVD... :roll:

this is unfortunately true. the quality of some of the DV stuff is amazingly poor, considering what it could be. using handheld DV cameras shouldn't mean the quality goes that crappy all the way - unless you were using really poor cameras for some reason...  :roll:
maybe i just don't get the point in using some methods that makes the image deliberately crappier - ok it should be considered to be an arty effect but why destroy it that much... well, maybe i've just seen too many generated crappily encoded mediocre standalone transferred audience videos and so when an official dvd comes out i'd wish it was simply of better quality, what comes to the sheer quality of the material (not speaking of the quality of the performance here).

i think i really need to watch it all again several times, to get a better opinion. but i do think the effects are really overblown lot of the time. i do enjoy some of the coloring effects but many times it seems to get out of hand... and the black&white stuff doesn't really work very well. it's like an obsession to use everything in the arsenal...

but still, in the end, i enjoyed it hugely too. there are some genuinely great tracks in there that alone make it worthwhile.
about the performance: i've always thought all the previous official live videos were pretty solid what comes to the quality of the performance. in my opinion this one seems to be different and really have more ups and downs.

and yes i think it's pretty funny that they claim it to be "fan filmed". but hey maybe their crew members are fans too. ;)

(i think i need to watch it again before i can even vote.)
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Bloodflower

It's fantastic, I think. The picture doesn't bother me much at all, and the sound and performance quality is great.

And I still love Plainsong, I still think it's the most adventurous thing they've done since WMS in regards to songs.

I really like this more downbeat version of Disintegration, too. Robert's vocals are much more... sombre, I think. Not as frantic and hysteric as the album version and other performances. It's a difficult thing, to mess with two of my favourite Cure songs (Plainsong, Disintegration), but they've pulled it off, I think.

And FINALLY another official version of Faith!
Another Curefan for The Dark Christmas album.

japanesebaby

Quote from: Bloodflower on January 04, 2007, 01:07:01And FINALLY another official version of Faith!
yes that surely counts as a bonus.
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ivan

I'am agree with some of you buti think the quality is bad in some places, i love push it looks very good but some others really seems to be recorded with a poor DV camcorder, i guess this is a work from fans to fans