I finally received my two discs from Amazon UK today in the mail. I put the scans in the poll section threads.
I haven't listened to these yet, remember, I am not a huge fan of these titles and never really played them much in the old SQ/CD-4 days. That being said, the packaging is totally bizarre.
Although they look like the standard Universal "Deluxe Edition" packaging, they do not have the plastic over-sleeve with the white bottom border labeled "DELUXE EDITION" around the digipack. Instead, there is a sticker band taped to the bottom of the packaging. When you remove the shrink wrap, you have to cut this "tape" to get the digipack open. Very strange.
The discs themselves have nice looking A&M labels of the era, but the DVD-A's are not labeled as such. In fact, the "Myths and Legends" DVD just has a DVD Logo without comment, while the "Six Wives" DVD disc has the DVD Logo with "video" under it. No mention on either disc that they are DVD-Audio discs. Looking at them with Windows Explorer clearly shows that the AUDIO_TS folder does indeed have information in it, so they are true DVD-Audio discs.
The description on the back of both packages labels the DVD discs as having a DTX 96/24 Quad Mix. WTF?
So, these are indeed a strange breed of a release. Most of what I've posted above has been mentioned earlier in the thread by others, but I figured I'd get it all here in one place. Not really sure what to think of all of this.
Anyway, on to listen to these. I will start with "Six Wives" and see if I notice LP noise and stuff................@:
I haven't listened to these yet, remember, I am not a huge fan of these titles and never really played them much in the old SQ/CD-4 days. That being said, the packaging is totally bizarre.
Although they look like the standard Universal "Deluxe Edition" packaging, they do not have the plastic over-sleeve with the white bottom border labeled "DELUXE EDITION" around the digipack. Instead, there is a sticker band taped to the bottom of the packaging. When you remove the shrink wrap, you have to cut this "tape" to get the digipack open. Very strange.
The discs themselves have nice looking A&M labels of the era, but the DVD-A's are not labeled as such. In fact, the "Myths and Legends" DVD just has a DVD Logo without comment, while the "Six Wives" DVD disc has the DVD Logo with "video" under it. No mention on either disc that they are DVD-Audio discs. Looking at them with Windows Explorer clearly shows that the AUDIO_TS folder does indeed have information in it, so they are true DVD-Audio discs.
The description on the back of both packages labels the DVD discs as having a DTX 96/24 Quad Mix. WTF?
So, these are indeed a strange breed of a release. Most of what I've posted above has been mentioned earlier in the thread by others, but I figured I'd get it all here in one place. Not really sure what to think of all of this.
Anyway, on to listen to these. I will start with "Six Wives" and see if I notice LP noise and stuff................@: