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Technical stuff This was recorded from terrestrial TV, on an early VHS domestic machine via the RF antenna. Since then the tape has been stored in an attic for 25 years. So not only was the quality not great to start with, it is now worse. But, it is view-able. The sound is poor - quiet, hissy, and MONO. We don't have the tools (yet) to set about splitting that out and cleaning it up. This was recorded off VHS via a Leadtech TV card and WinPRV software, then doctored and split up with Ulead Video Studio and a freeware splitter. It didn't help that the current Panasonic VHS machine has only RF output. Format of the MPEG files is MPEG2, 24-bit, 720x576 4:3, 25fps. Audio is MPEG layer 2, 44100 Hz, 16-bit stereo (not that you'd know it). If you're on headphones, watch out for a bit of a click at the beginning of the India WMVs...
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Of all the videos the band made, this is what's left. The Movies made videos throughout the UK and Europe - three of the Old Grey Whistle Test alone. But this is all we have found - two songs, in one session from the third Old Grey Whistle Test, Anne Nightingale period, 1979. We captured the VHS output in huge MPEG files. Chunks of those files are in a table below. If you feel inspired, you could download them and join them back into the 720x576 original MPEG video. But that's a lot to ask, so we present here the two tracks concerned (India and Have Another Body) complete and each in three qualities - Low, Medium, and High - in WMV format, best in Windows Media Player. 'Low' is
for anyone on dial-up, 160x120 resolution with wibbly-wobbly sound. High
(640x480) is not too bad. Medium (320x240) is a fair compromise.
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