10.05.2005
USA, Chicago, United Center
Happy Birthday Bono II
NTSC
PRO-SHOT
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01) Full Concert in High-Def Picture
a) Vertigo
b) Beautiful Day
c) Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
d) Elevation
02) Vertigo - Full Screen
03) Beautiful Day - Full Screen
04) Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - Full Screen
05) The Edge, Adam, Larry & Bono Interviewed by Diane Sawyer (WABC TV Correspondent)
06) Behind the Scenes with Tony Perkins
07) The Edge, Adam, Larry & Bono Interviewed by Bill Weir (WABC TV Correspondent)
08) MTV News - MTV News have had a crew on the road with U2 the week of the Boston concerts. This is a unique flavour of life on the road with Vertigo '05 - including an interview with the band on Vertigo Air.

Extra from U2 Electronic Press Kit
09) Stage Set-up
10) City of Blinding Lights Clip - 03/28/05 San Diego, CA
11) Vertigo Clip - 03/28/05 San Diego, CA
12) Electric Co. Clip - 03/28/05 San Diego, CA
13) Vertigo Clip / Another Perspective - 03/28/05 San Diego, CA

Extra:
14) All Because of You Video/Sugar Bowl Highlights (College Football’s Championship Game)

Total Running Time: [1:06:52]

Tracks 01 - 07 Original Broadcast 05/20/2005 and 05/21/2005 - Good Morning America (WABC Television)
Track 08 Original Broadcast 05/29/2005 MTV

Tracks 01, 07, & 14 - recorded by Palladium2
Tracks 02-06 & 08 - recorded by Chris Mc Manus
Tracks 09-13 - JT

Recording Notes from Palladium2: My Broadcast was not in true HI Def specs so the picture has bars top, bottom and sides. Cap at 8mb p/sec with PCM audio down converted to 720x480 DVD spec.

Recording Notes from Chris Mc Manus: DirecTV Digital Satellite>Stand Alone DVD Recorder XP Mode - This is a Full-Screen picture. 

Recording Notes from JT: Source: Direct from Satellite feed. Audio Codec: Windows Media Audio 9.1, VBR Quality 75, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass VBR Video Size: 720 x 480 Bit rate: 891 Kbps Video Codec: Windows Media Video 9 Aspect Ratio: 3:2 actual, 4:3 displayed.

This version has the Interview segment that was missing from Happy Birthday Bono. Vertigo, Beautiful Day and Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own are included in Full-Screen in this version.

Video Attribute :
  Video compression mode : MPEG-2 (DxVA on)
  TV system : 525/60 (NTSC)
  Aspect Ratio : 4:3
  Display Mode : reserved
  Source picture resolution : 720x480 (525/60)
  Frame Rate : 29.97
  Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed

Audio Attribute : 
  Audio Coding mode : LPCM / Dolby Digital
  Sampling Rate : 48kHz
  Audio application mode : Not specified
  Number of Audio channels : 2.0
  Bitrate : 1536 / 256 Kbps
  Number of Audio streams : 1