TVC - Nintendo 64 Price Reduction - Tim Ferguson - Australia May 1997

Nintendo 64 reduced its price a few months after being released because of competition from Sony PlayStation.
This features Tim Ferguson who was the actor in Nintendo 64 launch advertisements in Australia.

Games shown are Super Mario 64 and Wave Race 64.

Nintendo 64 was distributed by Nintendo Australia Pty Ltd.

This advertisement was broadcast during the program Seinfeld.
There is ghosting from the television transmission received.

This recording is intended for historical preservation. Copyright is held by their respective owners.

This is from a collection of tapes donated to me, this collection took 3 weeks to sort, digitise and edit. After over 2 weeks of going though all the tapes I finally came across this gem and it was totally worth it. Even if going though every tape is tedious sometimes the reward is well worth it!

Analogue to digital conversion is a time consuming process as it must be done in real time monitoring the video tracking and audio levels with a mixing console.

Original Broadcast: ADS10 - Ten Adelaide
Broadcast Date: May 1997
Source: VHS cassette
Format: PAL
Mode: SP
Audio: Mono

Playback Device
Sharp VC-H710 6 head Hi-Fi VHS player with S.Picture enabled.

Recording Devices
Leadtek DTV1000S PCI capture card
Behringer XENYX Q1202USB audio mixer

Recording Software
WinFast PVR2 2.0.3.60 - 64 bit on Windows.

Original Recording Settings
Analogue video input sharpness set at maximum.
H.264 High Profile
Entropy method: CABAC
Bitrate: 3000 kbps
Bitrate mode: Constant
Capture resolution: 768 x 576 (PAL - square pixels)
Audio compressor: 48.000 kHz, Stereo 256 kb/s