Queen - The legendary concert BBC2 this friday!!!

guild93 wrote:

"The fruit of more than four years detective work to find missing video footage and even the original multi-track audio tapes "





Does this man they found the encore? :-)

Where does this quote come from ?

And no, I think it means that they found the parts between songs, which were edited out from all the re-broadcasts

Oops and it will be only 50 minutes long ? What the hell will it be ? The common versions are cca 62 minutes long :(

The concert is only 30 mins long- i know. When I saw that i thought 'thats a short concert' but ive realised that its the cut version. But still, better than nothing :D

Apparently this is also a documentary? I'd imagine they're saving the full gig for DVD.

"fantastic new sound mix produced by Queen engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson, and Joshua J Macrae"

Oh dear. What's with these people?! Why can't they employ professionals to mix this stuff?!?!?!

Uhm...checked the listings and didn't see it anywhere. When was it supposed to be on??

Adam.

Well, I'm all Sky+'d and ready for it.  Certainl won't be bothering to stay up and watch it.  How things have changed........

Regardless of the mix and the length of the show, you'd expect a TV documentary not to last too mych more than an hour - even at that time of night.  A DVD release, though, ought to be longer and more exhaustive, so, let's just see what happens as and when it emerges.

Adam Baboolal wrote:

Uhm...checked the listings and didn't see it anywhere. When was it supposed to be on??

Adam.

BBC2, Friday 27th 11.35pm-12.25am

Got it set to record on Demand. You can use BBC i-Player to download it... hopefully in HD. I'll torrent it afterwards if allowed (if someone hasn't got there first).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p4hgm

wait checked the bbc website and it says duration is 50 mins. sorry about that. is this the non cut version then?

tombisset12345 wrote:

wait checked the bbc website and it says duration is 50 mins. sorry about that. is this the non cut version then?

I think it's the full 'televised' version at 50 mins (the encore, as we knoww wasn't televised)
Why is there talk of it being a doc?  It clearly says in the listings that ithe 1975 CONCERT

Also why would you want in 'HD' on iPlayer as it was originally recorded in SD?  Or does 'HD' on iPlayer mean something different, ie 'full res SD'?

Anyway, i've set the recording in my Sky+ box and also on my Freeview HDD/DVD recorder which will give me a better final DVD than going via Sky+

Many of you may not have access to  BBC2 where you live. So if you still want to see the live broadcast, download the free application from the links provided.

Windows
Mac OS X
Linux 32-bit
Linux 64-bi

You will need a decent connection, around 500-800 kbs. And you also need VLC media player, which you can down load here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I'm using this app since it came out, it is clean, and works every time.

Just download, start, and enter number 2 at the black screen for BBC2.

Remember this is a stream, so don't be expecting a  HD picture. But it is very good quality for a stream.

Let me know if it works in your country.

KevoM wrote:

 



tombisset12345 wrote:



wait checked the bbc website and it says duration is 50 mins. sorry about that. is this the non cut version then?

I think it's the full 'televised' version at 50 mins (the encore, as we knoww wasn't televised)
Why is there talk of it being a doc?  It clearly says in the listings that ithe 1975 CONCERT

Also why would you want in 'HD' on iPlayer as it was originally recorded in SD?  Or does 'HD' on iPlayer mean something different, ie 'full res SD'?

Anyway, i've set the recording in my Sky+ box and also on my Freeview HDD/DVD recorder which will give me a better final DVD than going via Sky+

The title for the first news article about it is "HAMMERSMITH CONCERT/DOCUMENTARY COMING TO BBC2 TV".
Do you reckon an analogue video recording is as low a quality as a digital lossy Sky broadcast?? LOL It isn't. And Freeview is much lower quality than Sky, so how do you reckon you'll get a better recording from it?

The sky+ hd box will record in .str file format. I know they can be transferred to a pc and the demuxed to Mpeg_TS

Has anyone worked with .str files and can you give me any native specs on them? Are they 1920x1080? and what is the audio like?

Am I right in guessing that DVD recorders will record in DVD spec only? For example 720x576, with stereo or AC3 audio?
Or do they record in proper HD?

Cheers.

Thanks BBC will look forward to this. One of the greatest Queen concerts ever, can't wait for the DVD release.

Negative Creep wrote:

KevoM wrote:

 







tombisset12345 wrote:







wait checked the bbc website and it says duration is 50 mins. sorry about that. is this the non cut version then?

I think it's the full 'televised' version at 50 mins (the encore, as we knoww wasn't televised)
Why is there talk of it being a doc?  It clearly says in the listings that ithe 1975 CONCERT

Also why would you want in 'HD' on iPlayer as it was originally recorded in SD?  Or does 'HD' on iPlayer mean something different, ie 'full res SD'?

Anyway, i've set the recording in my Sky+ box and also on my Freeview HDD/DVD recorder which will give me a better final DVD than going via Sky+

The title for the first news article about it is "HAMMERSMITH CONCERT/DOCUMENTARY COMING TO BBC2 TV".
Do you reckon an analogue video recording is as low a quality as a digital lossy Sky broadcast?? LOL It isn't. And Freeview is much lower quality than Sky, so how do you reckon you'll get a better recording from it?

Freeview is NOT lower quality than Sky at all. It depends on the channels. In fact the ITV channels are at a much reduced resolution on Sky (almost You Tube like)  compared to Freeeview, just have a look at the ITV football, which I always watch onFV, it's ano brainer.

".... which will give me a better final DVD than going via Sky+"

No difference in quality in BBC2 between Sky and FV, BUT as I want a DVD copy then FV is by far the better option as I will have a bitsream copy, but with Sky I would have copy it to my FV hdd recorder via analog RGB SCART then back to digital, thus losing some quality (albeit small).

Well, it just ended. I watched it via J@ck TV, minimal interrputions and excellent feed. Lovely sound.

Did anyone catch the sound credits at the end? There was one person credited for sound restoration? Then engineering credit for Justin Shirley-Smith and the likes? Because such work has been done, am I wrong in assuming that this is set for a dvd release sometime in the future?

 Edit - I really should read Queen news more often... Hope it comes out soon!