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From The New York Times 11/06/03
Can�t Get No Satisfaction? Change the Camera Angle
By Tom McNichol
The Rolling Stones' "Four Flicks" DVD set, set for release next week, includes a feature that lets viewers create an impromptu director's cut. Three songs on the four-disk set have an option called Select-a-Stone that lets the viewer choose any of five camera angles without interrupting the performance.
The technology was developed by MX Entertainment, a San Francisco music technology company. The firm has licensed its MX Multiangle technology for use in a handful of other concert DVD's, but the Rolling Stones set, culled from their "40 Licks" tour of 2002-3, brings it to a mass audience.
DVD-Video format has always supported up to nine simultaneous video streams, but Hollywood has been slow to exploit the feature because multiple video streams are more costly to shoot and consume substantial disk space. So far, the multi-angle option has been limited to pornographic DVD's and the occasional bonus outtake.
MX Multiangle is easier to navigate than most - available camera angles are continuously displayed in a preview window, and selections are made with the remote's arrow keys instead of the small Angle button.
Perhaps the best thing about the multi-angle technology is that it gives viewers access to scenes that unfold out of the spotlight. In one sequence from "Four Flicks," the guitarist Ron Wood slouches just off center stage, casually puffing on a cigarette as he waits for his solo - a nice visual summation of the devil-may-care Stones. Tom McNichol
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"the guitarist Ron Wood slouches just off center stage, casually puffing on a cigarette as he waits for his solo - a nice visual summation of the devil-may-care Stones."
I wonder it that solo ever came...
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