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America's Most Scenic Drives

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This DVD is quite spectacular. The company who released this is Questar. I was not impresed by their picture quality on a diffrent DVD of "Yosemite" that was an old film. I was leary about purchasing anything again from Questar Inc. untill I decided to buy this DVD."America's Most Scenic Drives" is a great value and I highly suggest those who like scenery with great picture quality to add this on to your collection. This film was produced from a Reader's Digest Collection. THE BEST FEATURE ABOUT THIS DVD IS that it is over 5 HOURS LONG on 4 discs and also includes the ABSOLUTE BEST TRIBUTE ON AMERICA I HAVE EVER SEEN. It is titled "America The Beautiful". Walt Disney did his own 360* format (one of a kind) for Disneyland back in the early 70's. This IS NOT the Disney version at first I was hoping for but Reader's Diget's version is even better than Disney's version. The picture quality is outstanding and top notch next to IMAX production high-definition. This seperate DVD (in the same set) is worth the price alone. "American The Beautiful" features amazing scenery of all the states, includes all our major cities, culture representations along with the absolute best of all America's theme songs representing each state. Such classics are in Dolby 5.1. Includes "New York, New York", "Oaklahoma", "Shenandoah", "This Land Is Our Land", "Take Me Out To The Ball Game", "Old Kentucky Home", "OOl' Man River", "Spirit Of New Orleans", "Chicago", "California Here I Come", John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High", and "America The Beautiful".You cannot get a better value on any scenery DVD out there. Over 5 hours long and the bonus hour long DVD of "America The Beautiful" is a must see!!I have a widescreen 65" projection tv and sometimes have troubles with picture quality when I buy some DVDs because I can see so much. For those with widescreen tv's or big projection tv's, DO NOT be discouraged that this DVD is in full screen format. The picture quality is outstanding!If I was an IMAX producer, I would go to the peoepl who made this version of "America The Beautiful" and see about getting it up on an IMAX screen in IMAX format. Simply amazing!Buy this DVD if you want top notch scenery! This company could've released "AMerica The Beautiful" seperate for the same price. The value you get on this DVD is the best I've seen yet!

This 4 DVD set of "America's Most Scenic Drives" is a great addition to any nature enthusiast's collection. If you want to know what America has to offer in this area, you will find it all, including some breathtaking and amazing scenery that you might not've thought of as being in America. To imagine that all of this can easily be accessible by a drive, you will be thrilled to know that you too can cruise these very same scenic roads of America.
Although it would've been nice to watch these DVD's with no narration, it does help to explain what it is that you are looking at, which is quite helpful (Although the narrator's voice does get a little annoying at times).

The fourth bonus DVD is great also, showing timeless American culture and landscapes accompanied by great classic music. A great bonus.

If you are looking to plan a road trip, or to just see where things are in America, this is a great DVD set, and should not be passed up.

This is the best collection of scenery I've ever seen!
Do yourself a favor and get one for ALL your friends!

Narration put me to sleep, too cliche. DVD wasn't quite what I expected. Some good video work but too much off highway photography. I was expecting more scenery as seen from the highway.

You actually see more of the little red car (a Ford...did Ford sponsor the original tv broadcast, I wonder?) than you do anything that I'd call "scenery"...lots of parades and roadside trashy touristy stuff - and the film crew has an inexplicable fascination with traffic lights in the downtown areas of small towns...I have no idea what that's about, but very little it the way of scenery. For instance, if the sequence in disk 1 about Mount Desert Island in Maine was all you had to go on, you wouldn't think the place was worth visiting, much less one of the most beautiful places in the entire country which it is. You'd have a really good idea of what that stupid red car looked like though!

I'm shocked that Reader's Digest let its name be attached to something this cheesy...stay away!

I'm from Austria (Europe) and I love the USA, it's an great country with great people. So I just had to order that DVD.

It's really great, there are awesome landscapes shown with sometimes spectacular views.

So I just can recommend this DVD to anyone who loves the USA and would like to have an awesome movie about this great land.
Especially the Music Videos (I loved "Battle Hymn of the Republic") are very good!

The picture quality is terrible. Looks like it was transferred from VHS or some older technology. I'll stay away from Reader's Digest videos from now on.

The concept is good, the sceneries are also beautiful. The only problem is that the cameras are not good. Even though they are on DVD, the picture quality is low, it has that old grainy 70's movies lookalike. With the music and the narrator's voice, i wonder when they actually filmed this? Did they just recycle some old material from the 70's?

Also they tried to avoid people as much as possible, so they rarely see tourists, etc, most of the time, you see those places without the people.

We bought this for a client who work for NASA at the space center and was laid off recently after 40 years.. He decided to start traveling so we thought this would be a perfect gift and it was. The DVD's are great and he is planning his first road trip!

What a waste of money! It looks as if was done in the 40s. It sounds like it was done in the 40s. Amazon should take it off the market. I bought it for some friends from Europe who were planning a trip here, needless to say I didn't send it.