I’ve never really been a big fan of Led
Zeppelin and this just proves to me why. They really did seem to lack some style here
which can be overpassed by the many other music dvd’s out there from other great rock
bands. This dvd is supposedly a concert video but it sounds very prerecorded to me.
There are some theatrical interludes amongst the music but the basic track layout is:
- Rock and Roll
- Black Dog
- Since I’ve been loving you
- No Quarter
- The Song Remains the Same
- The Rain Song
- Dazed and Confused
- Stairway to Heaven
- Moby Dick
- Heartbreaker
- Whole Lotta Love
- Stairway to Heaven with end credits.
Not a bad presentation really, not my thing but I’m sure it would make and Zep fan
happy.
So How Does This Transfer Hold Up?
VIDEO
The 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is pretty average. There are
more than enough scenes, which show profuse amounts of grain, or softness that I
don’t think was intended. This could be a lack of quality from the source material
though.
Shadow detail is less than acceptable and most times there is no shadow detail at all.
Colour saturation also has some major issues. There are constant inconsistencies with
some of the film images being quite well coloured with nice greenery etc and then we flick
to a concert setting where there is little or no definition in the colour. There seems to
be an awful mess with colours on this film. Once again probably attributable to cheap and
badly photographed source material.
There were some minor instances of shimmering but no MPEG artefacts were found, and
very little film artefacts.
AUDIO
The Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack is very much in-keeping with the poor
video transfer. I have my doubts about whether this is actually a live recording, as only
the first song even resembles live music. I am also surprised that the track has been
remastered further than just a DD2.0 track.
Dialogue was often a problem and I found if difficult to understand anything that
wasn’t included in the music. Especially the opening sequence to the film.
There are quite a few sync problems but none of these seem to be attributable to the
transfer, more likely the source material again.
There is some little use of the surrounds and quite good use of the base channel but
generally this is a very flat and lifeless audio track.
EXTRAS
There are no extras
