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It’s with great pleasure we point you to an innovative project from Arcade Fire, Miroir Noir, a 70-minute documentary from what Rolling Stone dubbed one of “the best live bands playing right now,” and whose shows are “a religious experience”. If you’ve never seen them live (I missed ‘em), now’s your chance.

Not only can you now see them immediately via a DRM-free digital download without waiting for a DVD to come in the mail, and not only is the quality of the video better than what you would get from an online video store like iTunes, the quality is actually BETTER THAN DVD (1280×720 to DVD’s 720×480 — MOAR pixels == better resolution). As far as we know, this is the first time an artist has done a direct-to-fan digital movie release, and as far as we know it’s the first one to be done in better than DVD quality. Please correct us if we’re wrong about that. If we’re not, h0tn355.

Head on over to Miroir-Noir.com now to grab one of the digital-only versions relatively cheaply, or go for one of the “get a DVD in the mail” versions, including a limited edition in a numbered box. Support Arcade Fire in their first release since the seminal Neon Bible in March 2007.

I want to offer a sincere apology to the fans who tried to download and had problems in the first five or so hours the site was live. We had some issues with our CDN (content delivery network), due to the extraordinarily large file size, that took us a few hours to remedy. All is smooth sailing now though, so long as your Internet connection and hard drive can handle downloading a 2.4GB file.

Enjoy, and thank you to Arcade Fire for inviting us to be a part of something historic and important!

ian c rogers
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