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I like Nine Inch Nails. A lot. I would never go so far as saying that I’m their biggest fan by any stretch of the imagination, I do buy every studio album as quick as humanly possibly and I have culled a vast array of…er…live material over a number of years. I have a copy of the Broken movie on dvd and at one point I even had it on VHS.

But my fandom is relatively small in comparison to the fine folks over at www.thisoneisonus.org.

Hence “This one is on us.”

So these plans were announced by these awesome fans and then Mr. Reznor decided he had another gift for his public.

400 gigs worth of HD footage from three shows including the Las Vegas stop. All the footage was unedited (as you could download a single camera angle of an entire show).

So the plan became revamped into a multi dvd and blu ray set entitled “Another Version Of The Truth”.

One year and a ton of work later, the first disc was released for download at Christmas made up of the HD footage supplied by Trent and company called “Another Version Of The Truth: The Gift”

Wow.

Created by using footage from Sacremento, Portland and Victoria (BC) shows and using one main 5.1 audio source, the dvd is nothing short of awesome. Especially for a fan made dvd. Now granted a lot of these fans are in the industry (from what I understand, a bunch of the people who worked on this are professionals but keep in mind, none of them are getting paid)

Now this is available in fancy 1080p blu ray… unfortunately I don’t have a blu ray player or a HD TV but I did download the dual layer version and I am amazed by everyone who worked on this project. The cuts are well done, it’s all color timed correctly, the sound is great, if you had no idea that it wasn’t a standard dvd that you’d buy at Best Buy, you wouldn’t know the difference.

In fact, I only picked up on one or two “mistakes” of music mistiming (the strumming of a guitar slightly off from the sound, etc) but to be honest, these are very minor and very small and I’m sure just kind of unavoidable when you take that much footage and put it to one single audio source. I’m sure that if you watch “And All That Could Have Been” which is an official NIN dvd release that was put together in a very similar manner, you would notice similar mistakes.

In short, “The Gift” will not only stand up to any Nine Inch Nails’ dvd currently in your video library but may even surpass it. If you saw The Lights in the Sky tour at any point, you will want to download this.

If you are a fan and haven’t done so already, go here for all of the details and links. 

Brent Chittenden
Co-Host/Writer/Producer; Two Assholes Talking About Nerd Stuff
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