Now Vision-2005 (2005)

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General		Extras
Category	Music	Main Menu Introduction Main Menu Audio & Animation Booklet
Rating
Year Of Production	2005
Running Time	142:29
RSDL / Flipper	RSDL (68:38)	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	Various
Studio Distributor	EMI Music	Starring	Eric Prydz Missy Higgins Slinkee Minx Joss Stone Scribe Evermore Ryan Cabrera Thirsty Merc Little Birdy Dannii Minogue Cosima Amanda Perez Eskimo Joe
Case	Amaray-Transparent-Secure Clip
RPI	$29.95	Music	Various

    Now Vision 2005 Volume One is another music video compilation disc to add to the already massive collection available in the market. They are always popular and make excellent gifts for the fussy music fan who has everything and is difficult to please. The track selection is usually varied, leaving everyone with at least one or two songs that they are certain to like.

    The first thing that struck me about this particular compilation was the sheer number of songs on the disc. More often than not you are lucky to get 20 videos on a single disc, maybe 25 at a pinch. This excellent value for money collection features no fewer than 40 music videos on the one disc and runs for more than two hours and 20 minutes.

    A wide variety of overseas and Australian artists feature, covering a range of styles including dance/pop to more mainstream and popular numbers. These include Eric Prydz with Call On Me, the ever-so-talented Missy Higgins and the fun video for Scar and the great sounds of Evermore with It's Too Late. Little Birdy's Beautiful To Me featuring the band covered in brightly coloured paint also deserves special mention as does the great beat of Thirsty Merc's Someday Someday. Other artists covered include Joss Stone, Hilary Duff, Junior Jack, The Vines and Dannii Minogue.

    All up this is a pretty solid listing of 40 tracks and features something for everyone, which is exactly the intention of these sorts of discs. The full track listing is:

Video

    The individual video clips are all reasonably new and therefore look quite good. This is despite the fact that many are presented in a widescreen aspect ratio (1.75:1) but the transfer is not 16x9 enhanced. Grain is mostly absent across the board and shadow detail is handled well. Colours are well rendered, with no real problems to report.

    There are no MPEG artefacts and the transfer is mostly clean of any other form of artefact.

    There are unfortunately no subtitles for you to sing along to.

    This is a dual layered disc with the layer change at 68:38, between Junior Jack's Stupidisco and Stonebridge's Put 'Em High.

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Audio

    There is only one audio soundtrack on this disc. It is a Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack encoded at a bitrate of 384 Kb/s.

    Compared with some Dolby Digital 2.0 tracks (mostly concerts of an older vintage) I have previously experienced for video compilations this one is excellent. It's a solid performer, with some great low range and clear and concise vocals. Cranking it up really loud provided clean and powerful separation across both speakers with no signs of any hiss or distortion. This soundtrack is virtually of CD quality.

    There is no surround channel or subwoofer use.

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Main Menu Introduction

Main Menu Audio & Animation

Booklet

    A nice, thick 24-page colour booklet comes with the disc, showing all the details of each of the 40 songs plus the lyrics, which is always a bonus.

      This disc is not available in Region 1.

    Now Vision 2005 Volume One is a mouthful of a title for a DVD, but the 40 videos present here cover a wide enough range to keep most music fans at least partially happy.

    The video and audio quality of the DVD content is excellent with no faults.

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