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is billed as being all the Eminem videos completely uncut, but they're not
all like that. Just one, Guilty Conscience, featuring Dr. Dre, is still
censored with the language blanked out as it would appear on TV. Why?
Eminem's not been around in the charts for too long and his singles chart
positions, up to March 2001, are as follows :
Apr 99 No. 2 My Name Is
Aug 99 No. 5 Guilty Conscience (with Dr. Dre)
Jun 00 No. 7 Forget About Dre (with Dr. Dre)
Jul 00 No. 1 The Real Slim Shady
Oct 00 No. 8 The Way I Am
Dec 00 No. 1 Stan
Some of the videos are fullscreen while others appear in a letterboxed
ratio, but none of the latter type are anamorphic. There's also artifacts
noticeable in the brighter-looking promos such as My Name Is and all
of the content has a slightly soft look to the print, although that appears
to be the way in which they were filmed.
The average bitrate is 6.3Mb/s.
The sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1 for each of the tracks, making them fill
the room and sound better than they've appeared on TV.
There are just 7 chapters on this DVD, with one for each song :
1. Stan
2. The Way I Am
3. The Real Slim Shady
4. Role Model
5. Guilty Conscience
6. My Name Is
7. Just Don't Give A Fuck
There are no lyrics to follow onscreen, but there are extras in the form
of a Behind-the-scenes piece on Stan and a Blair Witch
spoof at the Marshall Mathers residence.
The menus contain a small snatch of the track Stan.
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
