I noticed no jagged edges or shimmering, and I saw no signs of edge enhancement. Definition was mediocre but not a real problem. The best defined images were never particularly tight, but at least the looser bits stayed reasonably distinctive. Shots varied from acceptably concise to fairly soft. That said, Odeon was consistently watchable and looked better than I initially expected.

At best, it was never going to be very attractive, as the film was shot on 16mm film and done under dark conditions. Here is a review of the technical quality:Īs for the Odeon concert, it was a tough picture to rate because of the original elements. A Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 audio-only version was released February 28, 2006. Spanning roughly two hours and ten minutes, the 11/18/75 concert contains 16 tracks. Producer Bob Clearmountain remastered and remixed the DVD in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound. Zimny's production team painstakingly cleaned the original negatives and digitally restored the footage, ultimately presenting this concert in vibrant color and detail.

The multiple-camera film presents the complete concert in its entirety and its original sequence, as newly edited by Emmy Award Winner Thom Zimny. This the first full-length concert film ever released of Bruce and the E Street Band's first 25 years. There would be less EQ now, as the originals sounded that much better from the get-go.' The same goes for Darkness on the Edge of Town. Yet, to me, the new transfers gave it even more life than before, and thus there are some subtle differences to the way something would be EQ'd. By the time of his 2005 remaster for the 30th Anniversary of Springsteen's masterpiece, Ludwig had it nailed to the point where he received 'the ultimate compliment' from Springsteen: 'When I got to remaster Born to Run for the anniversary box set, I saw Bruce backstage, and he told me that he was listening while driving in his car and that he heard Born to Run as he’d originally intended it to sound for the first time!… So I wasn’t about to change the approach. Plangent Processes specialized in transferring analogue tape only to high resolution digital files.īTR finally remastered using this process 2014, before that 2005 remaster was on top.

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