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Added by n$a (290)
Cover by joe (97)

Added on: 18/05/2005
Latest update: 16/12/2021
User updates processed: 10

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Sony Homevideo Library, The: Beta Hi-Fi (1984) [---]

Country  Japan  
Released  1984
Publisher  CBS/SONY Records
Price  PROMOTIONAL ITEM

UPC  (none)
I-S-B-N  (none)
Category  Demo Disc

Color  Color
Length  47 min.
Sides  2
Chapters  30
Size  12"
Picture  Video
Ratio  1.33:1
Plastic  Transparent
Cover  Standard
Rot status  None reported
 
Manufactured by  DADC Japan

 

     

 Sound Encoding  Analog Tracks 
 Spoken Language  Subtitles 
Japanese No subtitle 

 Mint Marks sample 
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 Additional Information by n$a (290)   08/07/2005 

Promo disc for Sony Beta Hi-Fi videocassettes, contains clips from 30 titles released in this format. As per usual early Sony practice, no ref number on a promo disc.

 Additional Information by joe (97)   24/01/2020 

Laservision disc published by Sony for promotion of their Betamax format (newly) developed Hi-Fi Stereo capability. VHS had yet to go 'hi-fi'. The program consists of the following clips, most (but not all) of which I have identified from their LD counterparts, listed here.

The disc itself does NOT promote laserdiscs, its all about promoting Sony Beta Hi-Fi video cassettes. The end of each clip shows a still of the Beta Hi-Fi tape, its price and duration. Between some of the clip a woman (real) and a man (animated, cut-out cardboard style) talk to each other in various sylized background settings. The back cover lists the Beta Hi-Fi video cassettes for sale at the time (1983-1984), price, catalogue number, etc. Some of the film clips are in original language and letterboxed with Japanese subs below the film frame.

Track List:

    Side One
  • Billy Joel: Live from Long Island (1982) [96LM 1]
  • Gerry Mulligan: Live at Eric [MJ129-15CS]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Live by the Sea (1981) [MJ126-15CS]
  • (TBC but is by Shibugaki-tai)
  • (TBC but is by Seiko Matsuda titled Sweet Memories)
  • Hound Dog: Budokan Live - Stepping Wolf (1983) [48LH 218]
  • Mayumi Itsuwa: '83 [78LM-8]
  • Niagara Fall of Sound Orchestral: Niagara Song Book [ME110-15CS]
  • (TBC Japanese Man (30-45yrs) in a white suit singing an upbeat ballad on a large dark stage.)
  • (Could be Iruka: Message from Wind [MP153-15IO])
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO): Winter Live '81 (1981) [CSLM 133]
  • Suspiria (1977) [FY082-25TT]
  • Conversation Piece (1974) [FY081-34TT]
  • Shaolin Temple, The (Shaolin Si) (1982) [FY085-24TT]
  • Fellini's Casanova (1976) [SF098-0031]
    Side Two (42780 frames)
  • Intro: (Animated) Man and Woman in a car
  • Grace Jones: A One Man Show (1982) [MP117-15LM]
  • Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley (1981) [MJ134-15CS]
  • Shibugaki-Tai: L.A. Special [58LM 2]
  • Seiko Matsuda: Seikoland Live at Budokan 1983 (1983) [96LM-12]
  • TBC but i think it is Mayumi Itsuwa, listed on the back cover as a 15 minute Betamax video cat no. 39QM31 3900Yen
  • The Mods: This is the Gang Rocker 1981~1983 [ESLU-300]
  • Mizuho Nakagawa: Sun Dance (1984) [ME138-22LD]
  • Marlene: First Stage [58LM-9]
  • Michiyo Azuma: Party's Over [78LM-10]
  • TBC Two ladies on stage singing, sitting, walking about and doing some kind of light hearted routine accompanied with a backing band.
  • Candies: Forever - Final Carnival Live (1978) [38LH 230]
  • Ludwig (1972) [FY088-44TT]
  • Picasso: Le Mystère Picasso (1956) [SF078-1324]
  • Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) (1967) [00LS 8]
  • Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) [00LS6~7]