Rendez-Vous Houston - A City In Concert

This DVD was announced by Francis Dreyfus Music on September 29th 2008, scheduled for release in the UK starting October 13th 2008. But on October 4th, it was officially canceled (although an unknown amount of copies had already been pressed). The official statement from Jarre's Management: "it is important to underline that Jean Michel Jarre was not consulted or informed of the release by Francis Dreyfus Music, this in itself is sufficient to oppose it. Jean Michel Jarre takes too much pride in his work and care in his creation, to allow it, and you, to be exploited, without the necessary investment of offering the best standard possible. A mere DVD copy of the VHS format, where no Bonus nor Extras are proposed, would have led to a less than mediocre product sold at normal price. The DVD, as Francis Dreyfus Music planned to release it, would have done more harm than justice to what remains a milestone event. Due to the evident poor quality of the film, which has not been restored or upgraded to today's digital standards, is at all a level of a product that Jean Michel Jarre could be artistically satisfied with." However possibly a very limited number of disks may have been shipped through a famous British online website, as a fan posted pictures on a forum. Official statement from Francis Dreyfus Music: "We had to hold this release for contractual reasons but do hope this issue will soon be solved. However that some fans have received the DVD before cancellation is impossible because not one single copy of the DVD was shipped out of our office in Paris to our foreign distributors, at the time the DVD release was put on hold. The stock is locked up. A merchant website confirmed to us in writing that they had not sold any DVD to any customer who had ordered it, for the simple reason that they had no stock. So either the fans are lying, or the DVD they have purchased is a pirate recording. As you can imagine, a pirate recording is a very serious copyright infringement and its quality is certainly very poor." Technical details: 4:3 Aspect Ratio - Stereo. Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish