The Cranberries
Doors and Windows
This is one versatile disc. You can use it on an ordinary CD deck, Mac or
PC CD-ROM drive or a CD-i player. If your CD-i deck has a MPEG
digital video cartridge, you'll get full-screen video on some material.
Doors and Windows is a Track One title and I tried it on
a music CD player, Mac CD-ROM drive and CD-i
player and had no problems with any of them.
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The Cranberries - sitting comfortably
but fairly expensively on Doors and Windows |
The disc
has five music tracks from the Irish band, which play for
around 20 minutes. The title refers to how to you
navigate through the disc. The opening screen has the
band members sitting on a couch and behind them are
doors and windows you can click on to enter. You can
interview the band, watch video footage of the band's
performance at Woodstock 94 and look at song lyrics,
tour video footage shot by the band and photo albums.
There's also a complete discography. The screen shots
look great, and every so often a band member magically
appears on-screen and makes a remark.
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Every so often, a Cranberries band
member magically appears on screen and makes
a remark |
The disc has
obviously been made to very high production standards
and everything looks and feels classy. Mind you, there's
very little in the way of on-screen guidance, and it's
really of question of pointing-and-clicking you way
around the program. A good way of getting to know the
Cranberries from both a personal and musical level.
Verdict:
A great concept and a disc that gives you a
good idea of what the interactive medium can offer.
Cranberries fans will love this disc, but they'll have to
pay a fairly high price premium for it.
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Don't Play Track One
- The Duratti Column
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- Nyack
11 Track Player
- The editors choice
- The technology