Product Details

• Actors: Artist Not Provided
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Ten Mayflower
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Run Time: 240 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001EQUEQY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,477 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This 2-volume set is your opportunity to once again witness the most memorable Opening Ceremony in Olympic history...the complete 4-hour extravaganza from beginning to end. A special index allows you to easily navigate throughout the entire ceremony. Own the celebration that people will be talking about forever!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Jian Chen "kenneth" (Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

92 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Bri-N - See all my reviews

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.

39 of 42 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

By	Robert Nocero "Bob Nocero" (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.