25.10.2001
USA, New York, Bryant Park
Microsoft Windows XP Party
PAL
PRO-SHOT
menu, track select, play all

01. Introduction by Bill Gates/ Englishman in New York
02. If you Love Somebody Set Them Free
03. A Thousand Years/ Perfect Love Gone Wrong (Band Introduction)
04. All This Time
05. Fields Of Gold
06. Brand New Day
07. Fragile
08. Every Breath You Take
09. If I Ever Loose My Faith (*AUDIO only - with the Microsoft XP Logo as used background)

Total Running Time: [50:05]

Source: 
satellite uplink to TV station. [This revording is a line feed from a satelite link intended solely for a webcast of this launch on Microsoft web site. This is presented here in widescreen TV brodcast quality, not webcast quality and remains totally unbroadcast to this day.]

Lineage: satellite uplink > TV station/ TV > DVD (M)
DVD Authored by: FogOnTheTyneProduction, 2005
Artwork by: Cage Production
Note: Microsoft Windows XP Kickoff. This was Stings first public performance in NYC after 9/11. 
Attendance: 4 000

Comment: 
Sting performed a 40 minute free set in Bryant Park (location :42nd Street and 6th Ave) at 1.00pm to promote the worldwide launch of the new Microsoft operating system: Windows XP. The performance was webcasted by MSN, Tiscali and Vizzavi. Starting on 23-10-2001 the free tickets were available from various retailers in Manhattan (Virgin, FYE, J&R Music, Comp USA, Gateway and Best Buy). Due to the recent attacts in New York City the security was very tight. The first 4,000 people who showed up at the park with a ticket were allowed to attend the show.
Before the show Sting said: "Thursday's concert and worldwide webcast will allow me to complete the project we chose to abandon due to the horrific events of September 11th. I am especially pleased to do this in the city most affected, and in solidarity with all New Yorkers." Bill Gates introduced Sting as "An Englishman In New York". Sting told the audience that he was "proud to be a New Yorker" and that the audience "Lived in the greatest city in the world in the greatest country in the world and should be incredibly proud".

Video Attributes:
  Video compression mode: MPEG-2
  TV system: 625/50 (PAL)
  Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  Display Mode: Both Pan&scan and Letterbox
  Source picture resolution: 704x576 (625/50)
  Frame Rate: 25.00
  Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
  Bitrate: 9.04Mbps

Audio Attributes: 
  Audio Coding mode: Dolby Digital
  Sampling Rate: 48kHz
  Audio application mode: Not specified
  Number of Audio channels: 2
  Bitrate: 256 Kbps
  Number of Audio streams: 1