• Peter Serkin re: lack of online description of products

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 15 12:35:37 2024
    Only on going to a record store do I realize that
    I wanted Peter Serkin's piano box set so bought it.

    Online descriptions only give track lists, but I
    didn't notice anything until I saw the box set
    on hand, with pictures of the original LPs including the
    cover of the LP with the muddy pictures of Busoni and
    Reger. The front of the LP is all I remembered, not
    the name or contents.

    The side of the box set that has the pictures
    is not shown online.

    It would make sense to include pictures of the entire
    box (or both sides of a CD) on *all* releases online,
    especially when the box set has pictures of
    the covers of all the CDs of the original LPs in the
    box. Some people only remember the picture.

    This goes for other things with lack of online technical
    description, such as DVDs. Often enough when there's
    a release of an old broadcast there's missing info
    regarding the contents that may be on the back of the
    DVD but not shown online:

    Is it an old TV broadcast shown with the entire
    screen or is 30% cut off the top and bottom of
    the picture to make fake widescreen?

    The DVD and the Blu-ray might be the same, or the
    DVD might by full while the Blu-ray is cut down,
    or the old DVD might be fake widescreen while
    the new Blu-ray gives the whole picture. All
    these situations exist.

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