Beijing Olympics 2008 4-dvd Set
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Manufacturer: Ten Mayflower ProductionsBrand: Ten Mayflower Productions
Sports: Region Code 1
Format: Color
Published: 2008
Product features:
- Spectacular Torch Lighting from Opening Ceremony
- Selected performances from Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson
- Gold medal beach volleyball victory for Kerri Walsh/Misty May-Treanor
- Gold medal racies of Usain Bolt at 100 and 200 meters
- All U.S. Gold medal perforamances from Track & Field
Sports reviews of Beijing Olympics 2008 4-dvd Set
Customer Review: Significant Olympic 2008 Performances and Wins Amongst USA Competitors
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
This piece is divided into two parts that are vastly based on selected live NBC television broadcasts during the games. The first part presents overall but general commentary and presentation of the finals in the events as they came along (but the bias toward showing United states triumphs is singular). The second part is more specific, and starts with a chapter on the colorful Olympic ceremony..this is spectacular. The other chapters are on finals in events that the United States (and let us say Jamaican sprinters notably Usain Bolt) excelled. Hence, the DVD is biased toward finals and medal wins in the track sprints, track relays, and the hurdles; swimming (Phelps is there, of course), women's beach volleyball (Walsh and Treanor...the finals in which USA faced China are shown in their entirety), gymnastics, and women's soccer. The obvious demerit is the bias toward the United States, in the significant events in which the nation participated and achievd medals. Consequently, items like the middle- and long-distance running track, men's soccer, weightlifting, wrestling, boxing, cycling, and less traditional sports are left out. You also get the impression that the DVD was hastily put together, and commercially targeted. Nevertheless, the editing is excellent, and the DVD was put out comparatively quickly. It is a fact, for example, that a definitive DVD on the Games in Athens 2004 has never emerged, to this day. I still give this Beijing Coverage 5 points, but would wish that a DVD that covers the events more broadly and internationally would be created. After all, is not that what Olympic Games are about? We do want to see the performances of the Ethiopians, Iranians, Greeks, Sri Lankans, etc...the peoples of the world! The DVD "The Olympic Series," offers more broad perspectives on the Olympic events from 1920 to 2002, and it is one I would recommend to sports enthusiasts. And I would wish that this Beijing 2006 DVD were fashioned in that manner, or that a piece that is in the making would give us a more comprehensive presentation of the Games. Nevertheless, this Beijing DVD is excellent, though it will continue to generate negative notes, mostly depending on which events one prefers and what part of the world the reviewer is from. I rest my case!
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4 Discs include Beijing 2008 Highlights, Michael Phelps Inside Story of the Beijing Olympics, and Beijing 2008 Complete Opening CeremonySports and Outdoors
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