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Tiesto DVD corrupt - true or a smart media set up?
Last Saturday, DJ Tiesto presented his new "Tiesto in Concert" DVD in the centre of Breda - his Dutch home town - with a huge open air screening of the DVD using a 50 square metre screen. The 2 DVD's are a three and a half hour registration of his 8 hour performance at the Gelredome stadium given to 25,000 people. Tiesto wasn't scheduled to play, but after the screening he performed an unannounced set for his fans.
"Tiesto in Concert" is the follow up to "Another Day at the Office" on Blackhole _ the DVD that gives an exclusive look at the DJ from summer 2002 through his final DJ performance of 2002 at Times Square in NYC on New Years Eve. The DVD has exclusive footage from festivals, clubs and events including Moby's Area:2 Tour in North-America and Cream in Ibiza.
After the launch of the "Tiesto in Concert" last Saturday, the DVD was supposed to go on sale. However, ID&T Music put the sale on hold due to an audio/video failure on 25,000 of the copies. It's not the first time this sort of thing has happened with ID&T releases: Earlier this year, a few hundred hardcore/gabber releases by ID&T accidentally contained the new album by Jim - a finalist of Idols in Holland. Other incidents have happened in the past with similar errors. Every time the 'unfortunate' accidents happen, Dutch media reports about it, giving it much needed exposure and a welcome gesture to boost sales.
Perhaps ID&T should consider changing pressing plants for their releases or find new ways to make it into the newspaper headlines beyond failures of technical nature. Maybe its just a very unfortunate (or fortunate) coincidence that has happened more than a couple of times, we will never know. You decide! (26/09/03)
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