JKT48 Stage DVDs : A Quick Look
JKT48 recently released two JKT48 Stage DVDs last Saturday. They are JKT48 Team J 1st Stage “Renai Kinshi Jourei/Aturan Anti Cinta” and JKT48 Team KIII 1st Stage “Boku no Taiyou/Matahari Milikku”. With the price IDR 150,000 each, these DVDs comes with one 2-Shot ticket as a bonus.
1. Packaging and Gimmicks
The packaging is pretty much the same with the previously released “Perkenalkan Nama Kami JKT48 Concert” DVD. But the cover was pretty bland and seems hastily done. It came out with a mini-booklet containing lyrics of the songs in the setlist. Unfortunately, there’s only a DVD, without the CD of the audio recording like they previously have in Pajama Drive DVD.
The gimmick for these DVD is 2-shot card, the same gimmick they have on releasing “Perkenalkan” DVD. There’s no explanation yet whether the mechanism would be the same or not.
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD’s Cover
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD’s contents
Boku no Taiyou DVD cover
Boku no Taiyou DVD Cover
2. Content
The Renai Kinshi Jourei (RKJ) DVD turns out pretty nice. The quality was acceptable (at least for me). The same thing goes to Boku no Taiyou (BnT) DVD. There’re some bloopers if you watch it carefully, for example, since Viny was absent from some of the DVD shooting session because of illness, there are some moments when she disappeared from the long-shot. There’s also a short video on each DVD’s where Kinal as Team J Captain and Naomi as Team KIII captain shared their memories about the DVD shooting.
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD long-shot.
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD close up -shot.
Boku no Taiyou DVD’s longshot
Boku no Taiyou DVD’s closeup shot
3. DVD Quality
This is the major problem of this DVD release. I’m sorry , HITS Record, but it seems that the DVDs can’t be played on some DVD players. While I managed to copy the contents of my DVDs to my harddrive, some were not quite lucky.
Trans : I’m pretty much disappointed with the quality of the @officialJKT48 ‘s RKJ DVD release. (The one I bought) yesterday can’t be played at all. The replacement ones can be played with the result like this (picture)
Trans : I bought the DVDs for 150k which is not really cheap at all to see my oshimen’s last performance but it ended up like this *sob*
Trans : And the video stucked here and cannot be played furthermore. Really , thankyou @officialJKT48 and @HITSRec (T_T)
Trans : This is the proof that my DVD player is in a good condition. See, I’m playing the Tendoor Concert DVD (“Perkenalkan” DVD). Looks pretty okay right?
Same thing happened with one of our author here, Angga. He can’t play both DVD (RKJ and BnT) in 4 PC (1 using LG Drive, 1 Samsung, 1 Lite-on, and 1 brand new Asus), 2 DVD Player (Samsung and Polytron), and one external USB DVD Drive (Samsung). All ends in vain.
If you have the same problem, please share with us on the comment section below.
I think, HITS Record and JKT48 Operation Team need to think about the quality control of their DVD releases. It’s true that some fans just buying their goods for the gimmicks, in this case 2-shots tickets. But some others are actually Buying the DVDs to watch the DVDs themselves. The price was actually expensive (IDR 150,000) to some people. While we can’t really expect you to release something fancy , at least give us something decent. Not with the quality that really sunk below the pirated DVDs sold in traditional markets.
I personally would like to suggest that overseas fans hold their urge to buy the DVD via eBay for a while. Not until HITS Records can confirm that they have change their DVD Duplication vendor to avoid buying a defect DVD if you are unlucky enough. If you trust the seller enough and you are okay with a seal opened DVD AND the seller can confirm that he/she/they can play it in various DVD Player as well as PC, then go ahead.
Please keep supporting JKT48 by buying (only) their (decent quality) original releases.
JKT48は先週土曜日に劇場公演のDVDをリリースした。JKT48のチームJによる「恋愛禁止条例/ Aturan Anti Cinta」と、チームK3の｢僕の太陽/Matahari Milikku」である。価格はそれぞれ15万ルピアで、DVDにはボーナスとして1枚のツーショット撮影券が付いている。
1.パッケージとおまけ
パッケージは、以前にリリースされた「はじめましてJKT48と申します コンサート」と全く同じ形。しかし、カバーは面白みがなく、あわてて作ったようだ。セットリスト歌詞カードのミニブックも入っている。残念なことに中身はDVDだけで、前のパジャマドライブのDVDでは一緒に入っていた音源だけのCDは今回入っていない。
このDVDのおまけはツーショット撮影券で、｢はじめまして」のDVDリリースの時と同じである。その撮影会のシステムが同じかどうかについてはまだ説明がない。
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD’s Cover
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD’s contents
Boku no Taiyou DVD cover
Boku no Taiyou DVD Cover
2.コンテンツ
恋愛禁止条例（RKJ）のDVDはかなりいい。（少なくとも私にとっては）許容できるクオリティであった。僕の太陽（BNT）のDVDも同じく。でも、注意して見るといくつかぬかりがある。例えば、フィニは体調不良でいくつかのDVDの撮影セッションにいなかったため、引きの映像にはその姿が無い。なお、チームJキャプテン・キナルとチームK3キャプテン・ナオミが、それぞれのDVDで撮影の思い出を語る短い映像もある。
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD long-shot.
Renai Kinshi Jourei DVD close up -shot.
Boku no Taiyou DVD’s longshot
Boku no Taiyou DVD’s closeup shot
3. DVDそのものの品質
これが今回のDVDリリースの大きな問題である。HITS Record社の皆さん、残念だがDVDが一部のDVDプレーヤーで再生できないようである。私は自分のDVDの中身をHDDにどうにかコピーできたのだが、不運な人たちもいた。
僕は@ officialJKT48からリリースされたRKJのDVDの品質にすごく失望している。昨日（私が買ったの）は全く再生でなかった。交換したものは再生できたが、この（画像）のような状態だ。
自分のoshimenの最後のパフォーマンスを観たくって、決して安くはない150K(15万ルピア)でDVDを買ったのに、結果はこのありさまさ（涙）
ビデオはここで動かなくなっちゃって、そこから先は再生できない。@ officialJKT48と@HITSRecに本当にありがとうだわ、これ（T_T）
これは僕のDVDプレーヤー自体が良好な状態だという証拠だよ。見てよ、テニス・インドア・コンサートのDVD（｢はじめまして｣のDVD）を再生してるけど、すごくいいでしょ？
我々の記者の一人、Anggaにも同じことが起こった。彼は両方のDVD（RKJとBnT）とも、4台のパソコン（ドライブはそれぞれLG、Samsung、Lite-on、Asusの新製品）、2台の DVDプレーヤー（Samsung、Polytron）、および1台の外付けDVDドライブ（Samsung）で再生できなかったのだ。すべてがどうにもならなかった。
もし皆さんに同じ問題があった場合、下のコメント欄に共有していただければ幸いです。
JOTとHITS RecordはリリースするDVDの品質管理を考える必要があると考える。確かに一部のファンはおまけ、今回の場合はツーショット撮影券だけのために商品を買っているのは事実である。しかし、他の人たちはDVDそのものを鑑賞するためにDVDを買っている。価格も一部の人には高価なものである（15万ルピア）。我々はなにも変わったものをリリースして欲しいわけじゃないのだから、少なくともまともなモノが欲しい。露店で売られてる海賊版DVDにも劣るクオリティじゃダメだ。
個人的なアドバイスだが、海外のファンはしばらくの間eBay（オークション）を通じてこのDVDをあわてて購入しないことを勧める。皆さんが不運にも不良DVDを買ってしまわないように、HITS RecordsがDVDプレス·製造供給元を変更したと確認できるまでである。もし皆さんがオークションの出品者・販売者を十分信頼できて、開封されたDVDでも構わなくて、かつ出品者・販売者が各種DVDプレイヤーおよびPCで再生できると確認できるものなら、初めて（購入手続きを）進めてください。
（まともな品質の）正規品（だけ）を買ってJKT48を応援しましょう。
Japanese Translation by Japarta
My friend and I bought BnT at the concert venue on saturday, it turns out, both our DVDs can’t be played at all. On Sunday I went to the theater to exchange them with the new one, and I brought my laptop just to check the quality on the spot. In the end, I’ve tried 4 more BnT Dvds on the spot, and when I tried to exchange them again, the merchandise guy told me that those are the only BnT DVDs they had in stock, so I decided to refund them.
My other friend BnT DVD worked on his PC player once. Yes ONCE. He tried it again on his laptop and it worked. Once.
The RKJ Dvd on the other hand, works perfectly fine. I handbrak(ed) it on the spot just in case. M
Hrm….I’m pretty excited to buy it. How I’m supposed to order it online if this happens. I can’t check it beforehand and to get a refund is impossible. I want to support JKT48 by buying the original DVD but if this happens, the overseas fans like myself would not buy the DVD and downloaded from the internet. DAMN!!!! This is suck, man!!!!!!
BTW, HITS Record should check on that, At least offer us something that decent. I want that DVD as my collection.
so, to hasten the production of the DVD, JOT choose the fastest burning speed without considering the ability of the DVD player..
even my man of steel black market AKA piracy DVD quality is far more superior
JOT, do you really need money that bad?
JOT or HitsRecord? HitsRecord or JOT? JOT or JOT?
whichever..
both seems responsible to me
JOT are not the CD/DVD manufacturer. Part of the blame should go to HITS Records (Record Label company which is the subsidiary of MNC Media Group) who is JOT’s business partner responsible in the voice recording of the JKT48 girls, mixing process, and the CD/DVD mass production/manufacturing. HITS Records subcontracted the CD/DVD mass production/manufacturing job to another company. The deadline set by JOT was basically for them to be able to release both BnT & RKJ DVDs on JKT48 2nd Anniv. concert day where thousands of people came.
I want an Audio CD please!!!
Seconded! I hope the CD wouldn’t be too expensive and akicha take part on the recording
Is this only available in the theater?
I really want to buy it but I live quite far…