PANORAMA 2010 DVD FINALS - MEDIUM & LARGE BANDS

[Royce Russell]

Experience Panorama Finals 2010 featuring Medium and Large Bands. Feel the rhythm and enjoy the arrangements of musical maestros from the ultimate 20th century invention of the steelpan.

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[Terry Samuel]

Royce, I am in Atlanta GA how long it takes for the DVD to reach me.

[Royce Russell]

Terry, DVD is ship via TTPost (Register Mail) and arrive in 5 working days.

[Bugs]

How is the audio? Last year it was awful and in mono. Do we have stereo audio this year? Is the audio clean?

[Royce Russell]

The audio is of high quality. ADVANCE DYNAMICS LTD is the producer of the DVD and they are an award winning Co. worldwide.
I am inquiring about the CD when it is available I will post it.

[Bugs]

Your answer really doesn't address my question. The audio has been awful the last few years. Isn't Advance Dynamics the same company that produced the DVD last year? Are you suggesting that if I want to hear proper audio I need to buy the CD?

bugs

[Royce Russell]

The DVD is simply awesome both audio and visual I sold 40 DVD last year with no complain who you bought your copy from..........I hope you did not buy a pirate copy.

[Bugs]

My copy was authentic. I don't think you can call a monaural audio track on a DVD in the year 2009 awesome audio.

[DJ]

Let me add my 2 cents. Last year some of the shots were in 16x9 aspect ratio, but some wer shot in 4/3 which made the look inconsistent. The audio while clear is really always in mono. Considering the awesome high definition, 5.1 dolby surround recordings I make with my little camcorder, I really cannot say the Advance Dynamics stuff is really advanced at all. They get away because most steelband music collectors do not know what to look for.

[odw]

I purchased the DVD and found the audio to be of high quality, I have a 5.1 surround sound system hooked up to my DVD and TV and the sound reproduction is great I can tell you I get the full Panorama experience with my Home Theater System and the audio this year is much better that the previous years. I believe Advance Dynamics sound edting leaves more to be desired because I purchased their other Carnival DVDs and they have mastered the sound much better they received international awards for their products. Its all in your personal taste.

[Dika]

odw you can be sure this dvd was not encoded in a 5.1 format.

[Jojo]

DJ - you are so right. Advanced Dynamics feels the steelpan community will accept any quality. Their last few DVDs have been 'abusive' to the instrument and to anyone who knows what Panorama looks like, in my opinion. The production was lousy and amateurish. The choice of shots were insulting and the transitions were inept. If I had to turn this in as my project in school, I would have gotten a failing grade, especially with today's technology. There seem to be absolutely zero preparation for shooting this show. Again an insult.

Sadly it is common knowledge that it is only a segment of the Trinidad population that actually likes or cares about pan. Unfortunately, the camera people seem to fall into that category. But most importantly, their dont-care attitude shows (something like people who still believe that steelpans sound and look like garbage cans), and this is replacing whatever professionalism and pride that the advanced Dynamic people should have in their job, that should make the production as important to them as any of their other work. And to note at the end of it all, the ceo or president, whoever owns advanced dynamics, does not give a damn, he does not see the panorama production as damaging his 'brand.' It's almost as if the panorama gig does not exist, because all his or her company's other flashy productions, is their portfolio.

I will use the old guard (camera people) at the country's first television station, TTT. When their camera people did panorama, they still put their best foot forward - it was just another job, but it reflected them as professionals at the time. The same cannot be said for Advanced dynamics and their end product for Panorama. And we have technology now that was not avaialble years ago. there is no excuse.

Also, to Royce Russell - I believe that Pan Trinbago should give you more support in terms of marketing and advertising. It is incredible that given the interest in panorama that you would only sell a total of 40 DVDs. And thousands of people attended the event? You're not serious. And what about all those others who were not actuallly there, but would have wanted a copy?

Yes, advanced dynamics is an 'award winning' company. But you should find out from Advanced dynamics exactly what they submitted to win that award. I'll bet you they did not submit their panorama dvd production for that award.

[GospelPan]

Well said Jojo, I agree with you 100% !!! Nothing more needs to be said.