Between these three versions of the Houston video:
http://queenzone.com/forums/1015412/announce-houston-1977-dvd.aspx
http://www.queenzone.com/forum/1168993/definitive-houston-77-dvd.aspx
http://queenzone.com/forums/1029072/queen-houston-rock-1977-pal-dvd-w-lpcm-mono-audio.aspx
which one has the best picture quality? I'm only worried about visuals here, nothing else.
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"Definitive Houston" is awfully compressed in some spots. Also the aspect ratio is strange (if I remember it well).
The version shared by YourValentine is a raw transfer of the best leaked VHS tape. The TommyGun version comes from the same source, but has different audio - the video might be re-encoded or the same, I don't remember. Definitive Houston is a Japanese bootleg, it's the same source, but it's converted to NTSC. The original tape was already converted from NTSC to PAL, so this DVD is actually NTSC -> PAL -> NTSC, plus it's a lossy mpg2 reencode of a lossy mpg2 encode. If I remember correctly they also made it darker, but I'm not sure anymore
so basically I should stick with the version shared by YourValentine?
Okay I downloaded what YourValentine shared and its the same version I had before where there's a skip every 5 minutes. Isn't that the Digital Queen Archives version? I thought there was supposed to be a better version than that.