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  1. Well... Technically what came in 1978 was "Video Disc" - optical discs with video on them. Never took off - was relaunched later in the 80s as "LaserDisc (LD)" (digital discs with longer recording capacity) - still never took off. Pioneer were madly pushing Laser Disc at the end of the 80s - and it was part of this big push that they sponsored the BA tour in 1990 with a promise to "exclusively" release the tour on Laserdisc in 1991. Laserdisc never broke into the mainstream. It was always a "niche" product. I had a player - I bought it in 1991 specifically 'cos of the BA tour release! Even back then pretty much no-one except enthusiasts, knew about Laserdisc - and aside from small sections in very large branches of HMV or Virgin - you couldn't buy the discs on the UK high street. As for Pioneer's hold over the release - I think that's long gone. ICON at the time said the Pioneer exclusive rights lasted only a year or two I think.
  2. Hey! :-) Definitely a lot of uncertainty about a lot of things I agree - and too many rumours and unconfirmed ideas get floated around by fans and end up being reported as the real deal! With regards the Reliance BA remasters - I was in direct contact with the fan who managed to get them off Reliance and uploaded them to YouTube for us all to see. (Reliance did not release their work or upload it themselves - this stuff came from a Madonna fan) It was definitely something Reliance were employed to do (the remasters). And I know in-house Warner Bros items float around the record company for all sorts of reasons - but I think it was 2009 that they pressed up a handful of DVD-R discs of BA Nice which ended up on ebay and elsewhere (just the original version). The usually very reliable Madonnatribe did have it on good authority that Warners were planning to release Blond Ambition a few years ago. I dunno - but I think Warners could probably very easily release BA Nice if they wanted to - if Madonna maybe allowed them. And I do think (sadly) that if we ever do get a "lazy" official Blond Ambition tour release - it will be the Nice show. And yes - this is gone way off topic sorry! I wish they would get on with things and release RHT!!!
  3. With regards BA - it is gotta happen at some point. The revelation that Reliance Studios were employed a few years ago to remaster the Nice footage in 16:9 widescreen format, shows us that somebody somewhere has this in their thoughts!
  4. Just need to correct this sorry. Not true. Ater Madonna and CBS / Hamish Hamilton thing felll through, they had the two Lisbon shows professionally filmed for future release anyway. With HDTV cameras on cranes and lots of audience shots - under the direction of Christian Lamb, who had been the video director throughout the tour for Nocturne Productions. On the nights - the venue screens at the Lisbon RiT shows actually dispalyed the live footage being shot by PAL HD cameras in 16:9 - live feed of what was being shot for future DVD editing. This video I made - shows that what leaked to all of us a few years later - isn't that live feed shown on the venue screens. It is some kind of later edit. So from this - we can see for sure that work was at least in progress on a final DVD / release version of RiT Lisbon. The video below shows "Vogue" - the live-feed venue screen footage (given to media outlets shortly after the concert ended on the 1st night) and the stuff that leaked to fans a few years later. They aren't the same! Side note - during the rest of the RiT, the shows were all shot by NTSC SD cameras in 4:3 format for the screens each night. You are right in stating that this type of footage wouldn't generally be considered appropriate for a full DVD release. In the case of MJ's 1988 Bad Tour - they did end up releasing this stuff on DVD a few years ago, beacuse of the lack of an alternative. Strangely also - some tiny bits of the Lisbon DVD footage did end up in the concert clips of IGTTYAS (mixed in with the Paris 35mm footage)!
  5. 100% They've all been "recorded" since the 1st WTG show - except if there was a technical issue we would not know have heard about or a show where the pro-shot cameras were not used (no screens) (RHT Macau for example had no screens and no cameras filming the show professionally - so no official video recording of those shows exists). Whether or not anyone has kept all the recordings properly is another matter! I suspect most if not all of them have actually been archived by Madonna. Check out this statement from Michael Jackson's Estate a few years ago regarding how the pro-shot concert footage for every show on his 1988 Bad Tour was handled. The same company mentioned in the statement who filmed all his shows (Nocturne) filmed every Madonna concert from 1987 right through to I think Sticky & Sweet. It's fair to assume the same process was always in place (recordings of the screen footage for each show handed over to Madonna by Nocturne). http://mjstar.co.uk/index.php/2012/06/statement-from-the-estate-wembley-concert-reassurance/ MDNA and RHT pro-shot footage for all shows was HD Video - so I assume all those were immediately stored to Hard Disk. We know from the MDNA DVD production process, that they accessed a ton of the screen footage from all the shows during editing and used lots of it (along with the specially filmed stuff from Miami and Paris).
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