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Rythym Guitar Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 486

It is ironic we have had three excellent Hollies DVD's so close together !, lets hope this will continue as there IS a market for such DVD releases.

Yes my copy just arrived today. This is definately well worth the money. Great live performances of songs and good to see the studio shots of some of the songs from "Staying Power" Thanks Rob for sending this out to us.
Cheers Ray

Geoff

I know you say there is a market for this sort of thing and Hollies fans always tell me and have commented on here and other forums that they are crying out for such releases but the reality is, I have sold 60 copies WORLWIDE from the website which has average hits of 24,000 per day.

That will hardly prompt either the band, EMI or anyone else for that matter to invest in another product.

This is a question for anyone in the USA who has bought the DVD, (14 of you), can you play it ok on your machines.

One person has bought it and can't get it to play on several machines and even his PC.

Looking for a solution here.

I will play the DVD in all of the DVD players in my house tonight, and give you a report on my results.

Rob,

I received the live DVD yesterday and it plays just fine (good performances too, btw!).

I would recommend a very basic Phillips player, model DVP3040. It can be purchased for less than $50; I got mine at Best Buy. It is the player I purchased when I got the He Ain't Heavy DVD, after I found it wouldn't play in my previous player (just because a DVD is called "all regions" doesn't guarantee every player can read it). While this Phillips DVD player is also labeled Region 1, a knowledgeable salesman said he knew from experience it would work for me, and it certainly has for the two Hollies DVDs.

Like I previously suggested, most of those big appliance stores have working models of most of their DVD players out, so you see the remote control setup and actually watch it playing a DVD.

Just take your Hollies disc with you into the store, and only consider buying a player that works with it.

As an aside, if you're not getting one of those expensive "near HD upgrade" players, you certainly do want higher definition outputs, such as component video ouputs (LOL, assuming you have a television with component video inputs!).

Anyway, my disc has worked just fine on two different players in my house, and I have yet to try it in the others - yeah, we've gone overboard on DVD players. So, the odds favor that when you try the disc at your appliance store, it'll work just fine.

Thanks for the tips Brandy and Sparty! Guess I'll have to take drive over to my local
Circuit City or Best Buy and put the Dutch Collection to the "test" on one of their floor models.

I received my copy of The Hollies Special Live Edition DVD.
Thanks to Rob for the promptness in sending it. Only took a week to arrive to New Zealand.

Unlike most other Forum Members, I was disappointed in the DVD.

First up, I thought the disc would have had a 5.1 soundtrack if not DTS. Instead the DVD only has 2 channel.

Interesting that the concert that was chosen to release on DVD was only 7 songs long. I believe the Royal Albert Hall concert would have been a much better option as it is a great concert hall and would have given us an opportunity to see a full concert.

The second part of the DVD switches back to the song menu after each song which is frustrating. Would have been good to have a "Play All" option, the same as for the concert section of the disc.

Overall, not a great offering from such a good band, and probably why this DVD is only available by post or at concerts as it really is thin both in quality and in quantity.

Can only hope that a full concert DVD from the Hollies with a superior sound track will soon be available.

Also must say that it is the first time I have seen Peter Howarth with the band and he seems to have fitted in well and sounds closer to Allan Clarke than Carl Wayne did.

Here's hoping that sometime soon the Hollies will tour this part of the world again as they are very popular here and are well supported.

Geoff Sears
Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND

Bass Guitar Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 98 Location: Rugby

Good quality and I love that intro, so catchy.

Rythym Guitar Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 486 Location: UK

Rythym Guitar Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 486

Re Rob's point over him selling just 60 copies of the DVD - which is a pity.....however before we just assume it's not worth EMI's time.....lets remember that in truth it all boils down to "Promotion of the product" (and SOME "Promotion" might help !) ....