thelaj said:
Audio quality is excellent (only tried it on stereo so far), with Adam's bass pretty high in the mix, and Edge somewhat lower than you might imagine.
Picture is very good for a 13year old video, but won't match the newer ones (Boston, Slane, Chicago) for sharpness.
Roll on Milano.
The audio is very good. It shines at the end of mysterious ways and one.
The video seems to be from the laserdisc masters (I got a DVD rip of the laserdisc version in a trade a few years back). Like the laserdisc version, the colours are oversaturated/blown out in many shots (although not all of them, perhaps they pulled some better video sources where they could). Its unfortunate, because the Japanese DVD bootleg (with subtitles) has much better picture quality (although that version does have a slight double vision).
Seems like this is a different cut from the two previous pro-shot versions available. I felt that there was a little bit more cutting in and out during mysterious ways especially.
I haven't watched the original versions in a while but either they changed the cut to show more of the light show, or they enhanced the colours quite a bit, and it makes the lights look similar to what was during the Elevation/Vertigo tours.
edit: heres some pics that I posted
http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b362/bcrt2000/zoo tv dvd/
Note that the interlacing/mice teeth artifcating is because my regular DVD player software wasn't working at the time so I had to use worse software.
I've watched more of the DVD and I've noticed that they've included a lot of unedited mistakes compared to the original. Either that, or the sound definition is making me hear more things, like the horrible guitar playing at the end of dirty day by Bono/just before the start of Bullet.
If you are using PowerDVD 7 on your PC to play the DVD, try enabling nvidia purevideo, it smooths out the frame rate greatly, looks MUCH better.