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Came across a bootleg stall in Camden market yesterday - Not bought any bootlegs in years, but was very intrigued to see a load of Live DVD bootlegs on sale.

No doubt the quality varies greatly, as with old style CD/Record bootlegs, but has anyone had any experience with them - What kind of quality is out there, sound and vision wise, how professionally filmed are these things etc?

I picked up a U2 one from Germany and looking at the back it claimed to be filmed using 4 camera's with soundboard quality sound - Presumably this would be the higher end of the market so to speak??

― ArnoldPalmer, Monday, 20 June 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Presumably, that would be a 'copied off a TV broadcast'

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Not according to the bloke running the stall no, he said it was 4 people in the audience filming from different places - He wasn't sure where they'd got the sound from.
I would imagine if it was TV broadcast quality they'd stick it on the box as people would (possibly) be more inclined to buy it

― arnoldpalmer, Monday, 20 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I picked up a B-52's DVD on ebay. It's from very early in their career (Atlanta, 1978) and thus filmed rather primitively in B&W, but I love it!

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

how could one guy in Canada have so much ?
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― booty, Monday, 20 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if anyone can help me with this weird conundrum, but whenever I buy bootleg DVDs they always work absolutely fine on every piece of equipment I use other than my dad's fancy Pioneer DVD/DVD-A/SACD hybrid player.

When I play 'em on that the picture is fine but there's never any sound. I've tried changing the audio track and the stereo/surround modes but to no avail.

Anyone got any ideas?

― D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

do you have a playstation 2? they play the boots my machine won't.

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

They work fine on PS2s, laptops, PCs and DVD players. It's just this one machine which, for some reason, doesn't play the sound on bootlegs.

It's a pisser 'cos it's hooked up to my dad's home cinema which is, frankly, the shit: plasma TV, surround sound etc and I don't often get to watch these things on anything better than the cheapest equipment.

― D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

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