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Van Halen   02/11/1983

Estadio De Rio La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Media DVD
Notes Sound = A, Picture = A-
J-Card Comment VAN HALEN
Estadio de Rio de la Plata
Buenos Aires, Argentina
11 February 1983

01. Introduction
02. Romeo Delight
03. Unchained
04. Drum Solo
05. The Full Bug
06. Running With the Devil
07. Jamie's Cryin'
08. Little Guitars
09. Bass Solo
10. Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
11. Dancing in the Streets
12. Little Dreamer
13. So This is Love
14. Summertime Blues
15. Cathedral
16. Secrets
17. Drum Solo
18. Ode to Argentina
19. Ice Cream Man
20. Intruder/Pretty Woman
21. Guitar Solo
22. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
23. You Really Got Me

OSKY COMMENTS (January 2006)

The tape sent over to me...is without a doubt the best quality version of this I have seen.
I dont know the lineage but this would be my guess ...

PAL VHS master> PAL 1st gen (this is where the ads got edited out) > NTSC 2nd gen > DVD

... but I could be wrong!. Argentinian TV uses the PAL system so there has been standards conversion invoved in this disc that I didnt do. The conversion is OK, my guess is it was done on a Panasonic or Samsung conversion VCR. Reasonable, better than many ...

The gig runs at 83 mins so I captured it on my new Pioneer DVR-530H-S DVD/HDD deck. This unit has an awesome timebase corrector on the front end plus it also allows bit rates to be customised to within 5 min intervals. I used the 85 min setting which gave a video bit rate of 7.15 mbps, pretty much filling the DVD. The audio is at 256 kbps.

I did not have to do much repair work, a little tweak of the colour levels and a bit of bass lift was all it needed.

My feeling is that until a PAL VHS TV master is found, this will be the best version around for a while...

FM Productions COMMENTS (January 2006)

I was looking in boxes and boxes of VHS Tapes for something else when I came across this video. I contacted Osky Productions and asked if it could be put onto DVD. Osky graciously offered to do the transfer.

Osky did an awesome job.

I ripped the DVD I received via DVD Decypter, dexmuxed via Smartripper and then authored via DVD Architect. There was NO re-encoding of the video!

Decatone was also kind enough to make up the awesome artwork also found on the disc.

I hope everyone enjoys this awesome concert!
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Owned by Jeff Kaisershot · Last Updated May 23, 2023