Brian May regarding Live 70's DVDs

Sorry I was watching John deacon's stuff and made a mistake I was writing to Mr May and Mr Taylor, not Deacon.
Sorry

I couldn't agree more about the quality of the Greatest Video Hits 1 & 2 set from years back. It says "remastered and restored" on the cover but some of the videos (WATC especially) look awful and are washed-out grainstorms. Even a more recent video like "I Want It All" could look a lot better. It's time to remaster and restore these classic videos for real now for the Blu-Ray age in 4k resolution. That would be just an incredible treat for the fans. It is also about preserving these priceless videos for future generations.

Personally I still think it comes down to prioritising the concerts they select to put on DVD into what will sell fast and what do hardcore fans want.

QP is a business and therefore when they meet they will have spread sheets of information relating to cost of production and predicted earnings for each DVD.

Simple fact is it will cost a lot more to produce a 70's concert, it will be harder to find good material, harder to find bonus stuff and more costly to transfer to DVD quality, add to that they will not sell as many and Jim Beach will simply put it lower down the list.

My hope is one day it will happen, but I dont see that until all the higher quality concerts are transfered first.

The fact that the Rainbow 74 shows are on the short list should have the "release 70s concerts now" crowd jumping for joy. But where are they now? Legitimate question. Perhaps they jumped ship and became Springsteen or Floyd fans because they know how to release boxed sets.

That said, I'm sure some people won't be happy until all the Queen shows filmed in the 70s are officially released in DVD quality. Even then, they'd probably blame the band for not filming more of them.

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[b][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Real Wizard wrote:[/QUOTENAME][/b] The fact that the Rainbow 74 shows are on the short list should have the "release 70s concerts now" crowd jumping for joy.
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I'll be jumping for joy as soon as I see a press release with an official release date. I'm still waiting for the 1999 album, the  Robbie Williams album, the 2003 studio album, the box sets, the Hammy 75 DVD ...

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But where are they now? Legitimate question. Perhaps they jumped ship and became Springsteen or Floyd fans because they know how to release boxed sets.[/QUOTE]

Or Clash / Ramones / Black Sabbath ...

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That said, I'm sure some people won't be happy until all the Queen shows filmed in the 70s are officially released in DVD quality. Even then, they'd probably blame the band for not filming more of them.[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
Actually in this phase I'm pretty sure we will be happy to get ANY Queen DVD from the 70s

I'm not lumping you in with that crowd. I'm talking about people who haven't had a decent thing to say about QP in the last decade, when they're worthy of at least as much praise as criticism.

Myself, I'm thrilled that the Rainbow shows are being worked on. But I have to admit, it's not nearly as exciting as it would've been ten years ago. One can only wait for so long before moving on to other things.

[QUOTE] [b]SimonFerocious wrote:[/b]
It's time to remaster and restore these classic videos for real now for the Blu-Ray age in 4k resolution. That would be just an incredible treat for the fans. It is also about preserving these priceless videos for future generations.[/QUOTE]

Of course - only original film elements could be scanned at 4k. Anything shot on (2" Quad) videotape would be pointless...

Just sayin'!!!!

P.S. What I mean is that there wouldn't be any point in having the promo videos or concerts that were shot on video - e.g. Bo Rap and Wembley 86 - on Blu-ray as you wouldn't gain any extra quality...

"One can only wait for so long before moving on to other things"

So true...

Well this answer was typical and somewhat arrogant.We can see the full concert on youtube and the quality is not that bad.I am talking about the 1975 Christmas concert.Put a little work into it and leave the remaining 80s concert alone.They are tireing already.I think Brian personally do not want those concerts released for some reason,because his reasoning just sucks.Personally ,I love the 70s Queen way more then the latter one.They are like 2 different bands.I am 55 now and I am afraid I die before any of those concert will be released on DVDs.Thanks Brian.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
The fact that the Rainbow 74 shows are on the short list should have the "release 70s concerts now" crowd jumping for joy. But where are they now? Legitimate question. Perhaps they jumped ship and became Springsteen or Floyd fans because they know how to release boxed sets.
That said, I'm sure some people won't be happy until all the Queen shows filmed in the 70s are officially released in DVD quality. Even then, they'd probably blame the band for not filming more of them.[/QUOTE]

I myself am a hardcore Springsteen fan. Infact, Springsteen is my second favorite with Queen being my first. Maybe someone should show the band the Houston 78 DVD Springsteen put out 2 years ago. The Houston DVD is nothing but a in-house video feed with mono audio. Queen's 1977 Houston gig is the exact same story.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
The fact that the Rainbow 74 shows are on the short list should have the "release 70s concerts now" crowd jumping for joy. But where are they now? Legitimate question. Perhaps they jumped ship and became Springsteen or Floyd fans because they know how to release boxed sets.[/QUOTE]

The number of Queen fans was probably at its peak back in the mid 90's, and music dvd sales about a decade ago. Fifteen years ago was the perfect time for a regular "bootleg" series of 70's concerts on cds or dvds. Music dvd's always were a niche market, but these days it's practically extint.

Now were left with a limited number of fans who've owned the Rainbow concert for twenty years, and watched it from a dvd for the last ten years... There's only a limited amount of excitement you can get from something that doesn't really offer anything new.

I'm just glad the question was posted out there on his site and we all know he's acknowledged that it's been asked (time and time again).

Guess we can just hope at this point. He knows we want 'em.

[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
Personally I still think it comes down to prioritising the concerts they select to put on DVD into what will sell fast and what do hardcore fans want.
QP is a business and therefore when they meet they will have spread sheets of information relating to cost of production and predicted earnings for each DVD.
Simple fact is it will cost a lot more to produce a 70's concert, it will be harder to find good material, harder to find bonus stuff and more costly to transfer to DVD quality, add to that they will not sell as many and Jim Beach will simply put it lower down the list.
My hope is one day it will happen, but I dont see that until all the higher quality concerts are transfered first.[/QUOTE]

I think this is a fairly reasonable explanation

[QUOTE] [b]earwig wrote:[/b]
P.S. What I mean is that there wouldn't be any point in having the promo videos or concerts that were shot on video - e.g. Bo Rap and Wembley 86 - on Blu-ray as you wouldn't gain any extra quality...[/QUOTE]


Made a long post. Queenzone deleted it when i pressed "post message".

To sum things up: yes it would gain quality, because Blu-Ray it's not an HD format, it's a MASS STORAGE DEVICE.

If done properly, even videos like Greatest Video Hits (or any other shot on tape) would gain quality comparing it to the DVD. Why? Because Blu-ray has more space to store things. Video bit-rate would be as high as a Blu-Ray can take, and quality would be as close as possible to the original video-tapes.

Also, audio quality would be in lossless format.

Don't forget that Blu-Ray is a mass storage device, like cassete-tapes, CD's, laser-liscs, video-CD's, hard-drives, DVD's, USB flash drive, etc...