SG Girls' Live Memorials
COBC-4038
released 2000.09.01
8190 yen
175 minutes, one side, mpeg-2, NTSC

This DVD contains the video from the "SG Girls 12 All's Last Concert" LD
and the "Tour Making Special" video.
I haven't actually seen the Tour Making video, so I can't be sure it's the
same, but I assume it is.

This DVD contains 175 minutes of video (100 minutes for the concert
and 75 minutes for the "making of").
In addition, it contains the audio of all of the SG Girls' duet songs
and Senti na Natsuyasumi and 1 Doz no Memory.
It is a cheap alternative to getting the LD, video, and CDs.

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I won't type in the tracks here, as I think it's the same as
the LD and video.  I'll write about the Tour Making Special
in another post.

This is the fourth DVD (two anime DVDs and two seiyuu DVDs)
that I have watched, and I think the quality of the visuals
is pretty bad on all of them.  

I guess anime doesn't compress well into mpeg when using
these low bitrates, as many people have claimed.

As for the live stuff, if the original video isn't good,
compressing it to very low bitrate mpeg isn't going to help..
The SG concert and the Kikuko concerts weren't taken very well
to begin with, so the DVD suffers as much as the LD/videos.

I have seen some very impressive mpeg2s made from DV
(but almost 1 GB per song) so it's not mpeg2's fault..

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Hitoshi Doi                                               Toshi Nibunnoichi
half a UFO catcher doll, half a cel          801 tactical training squadron
http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/                                    doi@win.ne.jp