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Phil

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Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Rota, Spain

Rito y Geografia

I though some of you might be interested in this. I read in today's Diario de Cadiz that the series 'Rito y Geografia del Cante Flamenco" has been re-issued on DVD with digitally enhanced video and audio, some additional footage, and a booklet. It didn't say if it was available in stores yet, so keep an eye out for if you're interested.

Phil

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Sol Polito

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RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Phil)

http://www.divxclasico.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=1017&t=68083

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 22 2012 14:43:54

Ricardo

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From: Washington DC

RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Phil)

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ORIGINAL: Phil

I though some of you might be interested in this. I read in today's Diario de Cadiz that the series 'Rito y Geografia del Cante Flamenco" has been re-issued on DVD with digitally enhanced video and audio, some additional footage, and a booklet. It didn't say if it was available in stores yet, so keep an eye out for if you're interested.

Phil

THis thing is like a gold mine for me....the work put in to clearning it up etc was great. For some years after they did maybe the first half of the series they asked for pre orders in order to help produce the rest of the series. I assume, thanks to internet ease of sharing and youtube that this did't pan out so well as the project slowed down.

THe last one that came out makes me feel they are about 6 DVD's short of completing the thing. I saw a showing at the smithsonian by Brook Zern last year here in DC and I asked him if or when they would complete the series (I know it is fully available on those crappy VHS transfers...no comparison in quality) he said the person in charge of the project got a promotion and unfortunately the project is at an in indefinate hault. I am happy with the 18 discs that were made until now but it would be great to have the rest. I know I'm missing programs on Borrico, Pericon, the american woman can't remember her name that sings, and several others.

Ricardo

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 22 2012 16:55:54

ptmikulski

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RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Phil)

I've been delaying getting these DVD's because while I can find most of them in NTSC format, a few I can only get in PAL format. My obsessive nature wants a uniform set if I am going to purchase all that are availalable. I would rather watch them all on a TV with a DVD player rather than more time hunched at my computer screen.

Here is definitely the double edged sword on the internet. I would not be aware of this series except for the internet, but the ease of viewing for free undermines the support for creating the cleaned up DVD's.

Sounds like I should ditch my desire for a uniform NTSC set and put together as complete a set as I can PAL or NTSC.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 23 2012 15:38:41

Paul Magnussen

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From: London (living in the Bay Area)

RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to ptmikulski)

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I've been delaying getting these DVD's because while I can find most of them in NTSC format, a few I can only get in PAL format.

An international DVD player would solve all your problems. Make sure you get one with a large conversion buffer, for good picture quality.

I bought one in 2005: it was quite expensive, but I’ve never regretted it.

An added advantage is that when people ask if you will lend your DVDs, you can say “Gee, I’d love to, but they’re PAL".

Also, BBC DVDs don’t have all the obnoxious advertising at the front that their American opposite numbers do, that you can’t fast-forward through. If you buy from amazon.co.uk, you don’t have to pay VAT, so the saving more or less pays for the extra postage. Plus they have quite a lot that the amazon.com doesn’t.

P.S. The most recent PAL version of Saura’s Flamenco is in 5.1 sound, with Spanish subtitles for the lyrics of the cante.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 23 2012 18:30:08

ptmikulski

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RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Phil)

Thanks for the tip. I've been debating this, but it was all a bit confusing sorting what player to get, and then my obsessive desire for a uniform rito y geographia set along with the fact that the current updated sets aren't even complete much less in a uniform format, put it all on hold. From what Riccardo says, probably a complete updated 24 DVD set may never arrive anyway.

This player is the current front runner I think, but I'm open to suggestions,

Pioneer Dv610av-k Black Multi Region Code Free Hdmi Upconverting 1080p DVD Player

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 25 2012 20:00:16

Ricardo

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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to ptmikulski)

Even incomplete I consider what IS available super valuable for any serious flamenco student or fan...even if you are not into cante so much yet. You can see SOME examples on youtube and elsewhere, but I have not come across the full available set. And as I said you can fill the gaps somewhat with the VHS transfered to DVD version still available.

Ricardo

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 25 2012 20:20:33

srshea

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From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest

RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Phil)

I wholeheartedly concur that the Rito series is the best thing going in the world of home video and that it’s worth buying the discs as it’s way more satisfying to watch this stuff on the couch with a beer and your feet kicked up on the coffee table than it is hunched over some monitor watching a crappy youtube video.

Very frustrating that the reissue project wasn’t brought to completion, and even more frustrating that the episodes collected on each volume don’t, for the most part, correspond between the old version and the new version, making it impossible to fill in the gaps in your collection without buying a bunch of stuff twice.

I tried to figure out specifically which episodes didn’t end up being reissued in the new version but got frustrated by the project. So, this isn’t necessarily definitive, but here’s a list. Should be most of the episodes that didn’t get cleaned up:

Por Siguiriyas
Manuel Torre y Antonio Chacon
Pepe Marchena
Difusion del Flamenco
Los Cabales
Del Café Cantante al Tablao
Falla y el Flamenco
Garcia Lorca y el Flamenco
El Perrate
El Borrico

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 26 2012 0:04:24

mark indigo

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RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to srshea)

I recently managed to fill a couple of gaps in the list of DVD's, so now I am just missing volumes 17 and 18.

Anyone know where I can get these last two DVD's?

(elflamencovive, deflamenco, flamenco connection don't have them)

yeah, I know they are all available on YouTube, but see the above post for preference for DVD!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 9 2015 17:07:23

Ricardo

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From: Washington DC

RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to mark indigo)

now I have apple TV and can watch youtube on the big screen in HD....

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 9 2015 18:09:22

mark indigo

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RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Ricardo)

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now I have apple TV

we got a coupla apple trees out the back.... windfalls fried in butter on toast for breakfast this time of year, great with honey or maple syrup drizzled over the top.

broadband here is so bad that hooking it up through the TV would just magnify the frustration waiting for YouTube vids to load.
On a good day they load as they play, on a bad day are loading slower than they play so they hang

When people post "scroll ahead to..." it's not an option.
Anything I really want to watch I download first, or get on DVD, if available.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 10 2015 9:17:27

Ricardo

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From: Washington DC

RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to mark indigo)

I understand your pain...but under the circumstances (out of print/sold out products) I would say you best option is to DOWNLOAD the episodes to a hard drive and later burn a disc yourself. I had been doing this for years already before the high speed internet luxury of today. You can grab the videos from youtube or where ever you find them after they load (I used to wait hours if I had to) then when you have em on the harddrive burn a watchable DVD. After some years I got lazy and just used to have em on the Ipod or whatever portable device and connect a cable to my TV to watch on big screen.

XVII- Terremoto de Jerez, Viejos Cantaores, Malaga y Levante, Maria Vargas.

XVIII-Agujeta, Cante Flamenco Gitano, Fandangos Naturales, Beni de Cadiz.

Those are the programs you are missing.

Good luck.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 12 2015 13:16:13

mark indigo

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RE: Rito y Geografia (in reply to Ricardo)

thanks, I have several lists of programs that I have got off the net while collecting up remaining available volumes. I couldn't get a few of the earlier ones (10 and 12) and did just that, downloaded and burnt to disc, but the quality wasn't great.... just recently I found those volumes from flamenco connection, also 15 and 16. I will download the programmes from vols 17 and 18 (I think I already downloaded the Maria Vargas one). at least I can put it on full screen and turn the screen round so I can see it from slumped on the sofa!

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