Sade-Life Promise Pride Love (1993) |
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Sade-Life Promise Pride Love (1993) |
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| General | Extras | ||
| Category | Music |
Discography Biographies-Cast Music Video-By Your Side |
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| Year Of Production | 1993 | ||
| Running Time | 65:41 (Case: 60) | ||
| RSDL / Flipper | No/No | Cast & Crew | |
| Start Up | Menu | ||
| Region Coding | 1,2,3,4,5,6 | Directed By | Various |
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 Sony Music |
Starring | Sade |
| Case | Brackley-Trans-No Lip | ||
| RPI | $24.95 | Music | Sade |
| Video | Audio | ||
| Pan & Scan/Full Frame | Full Frame |
English Linear PCM 48/16 2.0 (1536Kb/s) English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s) |
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| Widescreen Aspect Ratio | None | ||
| 16x9 Enhancement | No | ||
| Video Format | 576i (PAL) | ||
| Original Aspect Ratio | Unknown | Miscellaneous | |
| Jacket Pictures | No | ||
| Subtitles |
English Spanish French |
Smoking | No |
| Annoying Product Placement | No | ||
| Action In or After Credits | No | ||
The title, Sade - Life Promise Pride Love, is made up of key words from four previous Sade album titles, which the songs on this DVD come from. The bonus track, By Your Side, is from Sade's latest album - Lovers Rock.
Song-wise, this DVD is very similar to The Best of Sade CD. All the major songs that are featured on the CD are present on this DVD, so this is a great album for any Sade fan who wants video clips too.
| 1. Your Love Is King 2. Smooth Operator 3. Hang On To Your Love 4. Never As Good As The First Time 5. Sweetest Taboo 6. Is It A Crime 7. Paradise 8. Nothing Can Come Between Us | 9. Turn My Back 10. Love Is Stronger Than Pride 11. No Ordinary Love 12. Cherish The Day 13. Kiss Of Life 14. Feel No Pain 15. By Your Side |
The majority of this transfer is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and thus is not 16x9 enhanced. Sweetest Taboo and Is It A Crime are presented in 1.63:1 and 1.75:1 aspect ratios respectively and are also not 16x9 enhanced.
The sharpness and picture detail varies from good to great, with no low-level noise noticed at any stage. Some edge enhancement has been used on Hang On To Your Love, Nothing Can Come Between Us, Love Is Stronger Than Pride, Cherish The Day and Feel No Pain, but it does not degrade the picture quality greatly.
Colours vary from washed-out (e.g. Your Love Is King and Turn My Back) to excellent (e.g. Sweetest Taboo and Kiss Of Life). Mostly, the colours were good to great. There are also four Black & White video clips presented; Never As Good As The First Time, Nothing Can Come Between Us, Cherish The Day and Feel No Pain.
Grain is by far the biggest problem for this transfer. All but one video clip had noticeable grain. For many of the video clips the grain is extremely evident and distracting, but somehow still manages to be tolerable. Turn My Back is by far the worst in this area, while Kiss Of Life has none at all. On my 68cm TV this grain was greatly reduced and was much less of a problem.
Apart from one minor instance of posterization in Cherish The Day, no other MPEG artefacts were noticed. Only one relatively minor instance of moiré was noticed, which was in Is It A Crime.
Generally speaking, there are a light sprinkling of medium-sized film artefacts in each video clip, with several clips having none, so overall this area is pretty reasonable.
Packaging Error: Song 12 - Cherish The Day fails to rate a mention on the back cover of the DVD.
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| 1. Title - Intro | |
| 2. Your Love Is King | Grainy both foreground and background Medium Sized Film Artefacts Washed-Out Colour Overall Rating 2.5 |
| 3. Smooth Operator | Strong Grain Medium Sized Film Artefacts Average Colour Overall Rating 2.5 |
| 4. Hang On To Your Love | Grainy Edge Enhancement Picture Lacks Detail Good Colour Overall Rating 2.5 |
| 5. Never As Good As The First Time | Black and White Strong Grain in opening and closing scenes Overall Rating 3.0 |
| 6. Sweetest Taboo | Great Colour Great Detail Trivial amount of Grain Overall Rating 4.0 |
| 7. Is It A Crime | Interlacing Artefacts Very Good Colour Trivial amount of Grain Overall Rating 4.0 |
| 8. Paradise | Very Good Detail Trivial amount of Grain Overall Rating 4.0 |
| 9. Nothing Can Come Between Us | Black and White Edge Ringing Grainy Picture Dark with little Shadow Detail Overall Rating 2.5 |
| 10. Turn My Back | Extremely Grainy Washed-Out Colour Picture Lacks Detail Overall Rating 2.0 |
| 11. Love Is Stronger Than Pride | Vertical Banding Minor Grain Edge Enhancement Average Colour Overall Rating 2.5 |
| 12. No Ordinary Love | Very Good Colour Great Detail Tiny amount of Grain Overall Rating 4.0 |
| 13. Cherish The Day | Black and White Great Detail Trivial amount of Grain Trivial amount of Posterization Slightly over-saturated picture Trivial Aliasing Edge Enhancement Overall Rating 3.5 |
| 14. Kiss Of Life | Great Colour Very Good Detail No Grain Overall Rating 4.0 |
| 15. Feel No Pain | Black and White Minor Grain Minor Edge Enhancement Film Scratch Overall Rating 4.0 |
| Bonus: By Your Side | Great Detail Superb Colour Some Grain but only at the end Overall Rating 4.5 |
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There are two audio tracks on this DVD; an English 1536Kb/s Linear PCM 48/16 2.0 soundtrack and an English 448Kb/s Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. I first listened to the Linear PCM soundtrack and then to the Dolby Digital soundtrack.
Vocals were clear and undistorted with no audio sync problems noticed. No hiss, distortion or dropouts were heard on either soundtrack.
The surround channel use by the Dolby Digital soundtrack is great. Most of the songs are really enveloping. Paradise and Cherish The Day really make excellent use of the surround speakers.
Subwoofer use by the Dolby Digital soundtrack is also great. It gets plenty of use throughout the entire disc and is perfectly integrated into the music soundstage.
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NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
The video quality varies dramatically from video clip to video clip. Some are excellent, whilst others are very average. The older the footage, the poorer the quality, which to me demonstrates that the limitations with this transfer are source-induced.
The audio is just fine, in fact I would go so far as to say it was perfect for a music DVD.
The extras are very limited.
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| Review Equipment | |
| DVD | Sony DVP-725, using Component output |
| Display | Sony Projector VPH-G70 (No Line Doubler), Technics Da-Lite matt screen with gain of 1.0 (229cm). Calibrated with Video Essentials. This display device is 16x9 capable. |
| Audio Decoder | Built in to amplifier/receiver. Calibrated with Video Essentials. |
| Amplification | Onkyo TX-DS989 |
| Speakers | Fronts: Energy RVS-1 (3), Rears: Energy RVSS-1 (2), Subwoofer: Energy EPS-150 (1) |