Mattingley DVD - Playback Sport

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Suzy

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I had such a great day at Mattingley that I ordered the DVD of our xc round (£30). I waited over a month for the DVD (fine they said it would be that long) and have just come home to find it has arrived.

As you can imagine, I was very excited and immediately played it. All the preamble is set out very nicely (many piccies of WFP in the IN) but in my opinion, the actual coverage of my round is very disappointing.

It appears to have been shot by a couple of people with handheld cameras, so depending on how close to the fence they are, there is either a reasonable shot of us jumping, or we are on 'zoom' from wherever they can catch you. They also missed out at least 5/6 fences.

Now I think back, I realise that I didn't see any cameras mounted on platforms etc, so I guess they simply don't yet have the resources to produce anything better. I have a video from MK 3DE produced by Total Recall (who did have cameras mounted on platforms etc) which is excellent. Total Recall has been for sale for a while, so I think it is a bit of a shame that the people at Mattingley decided to start from scratch, rather than buying TR as a going concern (maybe it was too pricey though).

That said, I'm sure the quality will improve as they make some money to invest back into it (we have some video footage from TR in the early 1990's and it is awful!) and I wish them well. However, I won't be shelling out another £30 to them until I can be sure that the quality is improved.

What did anyone else think that bought from them?
 
Well i ordered my one from Longleat Horse trials, XC and SJ. Hope i havent wasted my money. I also braught one from Total Recall when they were at Milton Keynes and was very impressed with there filming, will be a shame if Playback is bad quality.
 
I am expecting one on Monday but they were definitely there on mounted cameras (I have a photo of them, although that is probably the wrong way around). Will keep you posted...I ordered both SJ & XC so hope I didn't waste £40!
 
I bought a DVD of South of England. At that time (i.e 2 months ago, prices were 50% less - so £15 for each phase. I know at that time they were inundated with orders so obviously put the prices up when they realised how much editing work there was and also the popularity.

I bought the SJ round which is nice enough apart from being no background sound, just this rather eerie music. They only got 2 jumps on the XC (which they threw in for free with the SJ round) but it was literally one person standing by a fence, so one fence was close up and the rest further away.

I didn't see any cameras on the XC at Mattingley, unlike Total Recall videos where they get every bit of your round, so decided, like you, that they would be taking the vids from afar, which is pretty rubbish and not worth buying IMO
 
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