30-06-2024, 09:34 PM
They look to me like transfers of master tapes rather than off-air recordings, notice the picture quality (they wouldn't have looked that good on air, the pre-2000 laserdisc system had notoriously poor picture quality) and lack of selection number graphics.
The burnt-in DOG is strange though. None of the local cable versions of The Box I saw ever had any sort of DOG on their videos, burned in or added live, and the Sky/national version's DOG (which hadn't even launched at the time these songs came out) was added live, not burned into the videos, so would be interesting to know where these are sourced from.
The first of those songs (Happy Birthday by Technohead) was actually on this week's BBC4 TOTP!
The burnt-in DOG is strange though. None of the local cable versions of The Box I saw ever had any sort of DOG on their videos, burned in or added live, and the Sky/national version's DOG (which hadn't even launched at the time these songs came out) was added live, not burned into the videos, so would be interesting to know where these are sourced from.
The first of those songs (Happy Birthday by Technohead) was actually on this week's BBC4 TOTP!