Snow Producciones

Is it just me? Or are all the Snow Producciones titles poor quality...

They tend to use poor masters. ...And, sometimes, sooo lossy (VCD, mp3, etc). Moreover, they like to crop the image to widescreen and upmix everything to 5.1 as if it was really an improvement. Sometimes, they choose absurd audio encoding options, e.g: they unwrapped an original mono source to 'suround' (sic) and put it in the DVD as Dolby Digital 5.1 and also DD 2.0 while the original 1.0 in PCM would have been a much better option and also would have taken a lot lesser bitstream. Definetely, no 'tech people'.

They make nice menues though!

Does anyone own the Hyde Park 1976 remastered & widescreen version? I've seen a clip on Youtube and it looks/sounds great, but I don't want to be fooled by just a sample.

Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4ubUXY-lQ&fmt=18

You can download more samples from here... http://www.queen.snowproducciones.com.ar/multimedia.html

Anyway... its better than nothing...

Some of his DVDs are great, some of them aren't

Yeah, they're mostly brilliant.
My Houston 77 DVD looks great but has been 'filmized' which I hate as it was obviously shot on video.
I think Hernan deserves a lot of thanks and respect actually.

all i know is the couple of titles i have from sp have not been great. i'd love to see a better copy of hyde park... and i'd really like to know what the best copy of rainbow is. the sp version can't be the best one out there. it just can't be. is there no comprehensive list comparing all the various options? the zep crowd has been doing that for years... i'm shocked that there's no guide to the best copies of queen shows.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]deltazulu wrote: [/QUOTENAME]all i know is the couple of titles i have from sp have not been great. i'd love to see a better copy of hyde park... and i'd really like to know what the best copy of rainbow is. the sp version can't be the best one out there. it just can't be. is there no comprehensive list comparing all the various options? the zep crowd has been doing that for years... i'm shocked that there's no guide to the best copies of queen shows.[/QUOTE]

Have a look at my website, www.queenlive.ca. I've got a list for audio, but the video list is not nearly as detailed simply because most people haven't kept track of the lineage of their videos. In fact, many of the circulating DVDs are lossy, so there's often no point in tracing the lineage anyway. 'Tis a shame.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]deltazulu wrote: [/QUOTENAME]all i know is the couple of titles i have from sp have not been great. i'd love to see a better copy of hyde park... and i'd really like to know what the best copy of rainbow is. the sp version can't be the best one out there. it just can't be. is there no comprehensive list comparing all the various options? the zep crowd has been doing that for years... i'm shocked that there's no guide to the best copies of queen shows.[/QUOTE]

Which titles do you have?

it's the early stuff i'm most interested in making sure i own the best available copies.
i finally have the room 101 release of hammersmith and i think it's great.
but my sp copy of rainbow is very blocky.
i have this copy of hyde park

http://www.queenzone.com/queenzone/forumnew/forum_topic_view.aspx?Q=1062740

Yes I have that version as well. I think it's the best version available so far?

if you mean that version of hyde park... it's still pretty rough....

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Yes I have that version as well. I think it's the best version available so far?[/QUOTE]

True, especially sound-wise.

From what I´ve seen in Youtube, Snow Producciones version of Hyde Park seems to have the best sound. It´s a shame it isn´t shared here, I don´t have it myself.

how does the sp pic compare with the Hyde Park version that's shared here?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]tonimau wrote: [/QUOTENAME]From what I´ve seen in Youtube, Snow Producciones version of Hyde Park seems to have the best sound. It´s a shame it isn´t shared here, I don´t have it myself.[/QUOTE]