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All Details that you shold know about!

All years of the ESCs are now on DVD.

For all Details, please visit the individual pages:

ESC-DVDs, PRE-DVDs, BluRays, German Finals, Specials, AI-Enhanced ESC

The quality is good up to superior, depending on the source. In most cases, the footage is directly copied from studio-DV-tapes or similar material. Therefore, the quality is nearly lossless to its original recording.

The sound is Stereo / Surround / Dolby Digital 2.0 / Dolby Digital 5.1 from 1983 till today.

Picture is colour since 1968.

The commentary track differs from 1 to 5 different languages / commentaries for each year. The most common language tracks are English / German / NO commentary. You can choose it during the show with your remote control anytime!

The footage is digitized to DigitalVideo format and encoded to MPEG2 with the following parameters:

Picture: MPEG2, bitrate min. 2000, max. 8000, av. 5000.

Sound: MPEG1 layer 2, 256 kBit/s, Stereo or Dolby Digital / Stereo.

ESCs with a running time up to 2 hours will be on one DVD, above 2 hours will come with a second DVD.