Someone asked about this DVD on my YouTube channel this week and I thought maybe I'd show it. I remember checking it out last year and confirming that the audio on the DVD was better than any other source I could find so I didn't give it much further thought then.
But after this request I thought I should take another look and I discovered that I only have the Watchdog version and after reading the INFO file (below) I wonder if maybe I should check out the other versions. So I am looking for other versions besides Watchdog as well as anyone's opinions on the picture and sound of them. Thanks SPL you've been very helpful.
The pro shot footage of the complete ‘Born in the USA’ show in Philadelphia is one of the most well known and widely circulated ‘unofficial’ Springsteen videos. The original source was apparently a VHS recording of a stadium sky box feed, but all versions to date have suffered heavily from interference on the image.
This new version from the ‘Watchdog’ label claims to be taken from a newly discovered low generation tape. The picture quality is undoubtedly cleaner than we have ever seen before, but there is still quite a bit of interference present. There is also a noticeable loss in picture detail compared to previous versions. This has led to the suspicion that this might just be the same generation that we have seen before, but cleaned up with digital filtering. Worse still, the sound quality is significantly poorer than earlier releases.