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Thu 01 Mar 07 @ 12:53 pm

At the moment I'm working through all my video DVD's. Re rendering and general tidying up. Doing so all in one go means that I am now comparing different files more closely. Now I know on the VDJ forums there are a lot of advocates for Promo Only, not me, in fact i think that the overall quality of Promo Only, especially the older stuff like 70's 80's collections is VERY VERY poor! In this area, my weapon of choice is Mixmash. I don't believe these are available outside Europe, but for those who can get them, the video and sound quality wipes the floor with Promo Only. To prove my point, I took two DVD's, one a Mixmash 80's collection disk and the other a Promo Only "classics" disk. I played each disk (not a rip of the track, the actual disk!) using powerdvd on a high spec P4 PC, I then took snapshots of the same frame in each video, loaded them into a graphics package, stitched them together and saved as one picture, the reason being that any jpeg artifacting is across the board, nothing is compromised. You will see a slight difference in aspect ratio, this is only because Promo Only are NTSC and Mixmash are Pal. I did not choose a particularly bad track, what you see below is an 'average'. In the Promo Only there are better and there are far worse! Mixmash seems to be more consistent throughout the board. So, don't take my word for it, see the evidence and make up your own mind! Mixmash are at www.mixmash.com