Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Ten Mayflower
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Run Time: 240 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001EQUEQY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,742 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Esi Distribution Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 240 minutes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

96 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars great show but poor DVD production, September 25, 2008

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Jian Chen "kenneth" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2008 Olympics: Beijing 2008 Complete Opening Ceremony (DVD)

very disappointed for this DVD.

1. Poor piture quality. I watched the open ceremony on HD. The DVD's piture is no where near what I saw on TV;
2. The sound is horrible. This DVD only has 2 stereo channels. How could that happen?
3. It's still not a complete open ceremony. It's just a purely copy of the TV version. And the TV version actually cut out several parts. I really hope that this DVD can make up for it. Obviously they didn't.

I would suggest you not buying it. If you are interested in it, simply go and rent it and you can make you own judgement. I would rather wait for the HD and complete version.

105 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing....., September 14, 2008

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Bri-N - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2008 Olympics: Beijing 2008 Complete Opening Ceremony (DVD)

I just received this DVD, and once again NBC disappoints. Even though the product page states that the running time is 240 Minutes, it is not. The first DVD runs 1:19:46 minus the 15 minute introduction from NBC. The second DVD runs 2:06:00. Anyone that watched the international broadcasts knows the opening ceremony ran for 4 hours+. Hopefully next year we'll get a station that will broadcast everything in it's entirety or won't false advertise with it's DVDs.

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Received DVD today. Video is great!! Audio is a dissapointment., September 20, 2008

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Robert Nocero "Bob Nocero" (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2008 Olympics: Beijing 2008 Complete Opening Ceremony (DVD)

I received this DVD set today. Was waiting to see a great transfer from High Definition to NTSC. That's what I got. The video transfer was super crisp and in letterbox format so we got to see the entire frame. The audio, on the other hand, appears to be just 2 channel Dolby stereo, and sounds more like mono. (My DVD player shows it as Dolby 2.0.) Some passages have a tunnel effect like the 5.1 was mixed to one channel. TERRIBLE!!! I was expecting Dolby 5.1, if not DTS. I don't have hi-def at all, but to me, the audio makes the video!

Come on "Ten Mayflower," the company that produced this DVD set, how come it's only 2 channel and sounds like mono for the most of it??????

I gave this review 2 stars because of the great video transfer, otherwise it would have received 1 star.