Celebration?!

Today I finally received my copy of the celebration DVD. I ordered it from abroad so I had to wait a bit longer. Let me start off on a positive note, the DVD set contains 47 videos on 2 DVDs. Most of her hits are on here some are missing and if I could make my own I would make some changes. But hey there’s only so much room on a 2 DVD set ;-)

Now on to the video picture quality… what happened here?? The quality is way below standard. They claim that the videos are digitally re-mastered from the original tapes but I wonder how the re-mastering is done. Even more recent videos are a bit grainy, blurry and sometimes pixilation. For some strange reason they choose to use single layer discs. I guess they had to use compression to fit all the data on a single layer disc which resulted in a lower picture quality. Another sad thing is that each video is in the 4:3 letterbox format. Why??

The audio is generally ok but stick with the PCM stereo track. There’s also a 5.1 audio mix, but this is simulated and sounds terrible.

For some reason they censored Justify My Love and the promised unedited and never before seen footage of Justify My Love is not on the disc!

There really is no excuse for this to happen, especially from a company as large as Warner and an artist as big as Madonna. Great collection, bad production!