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1.0 out of 5 stars
Eight hours of shoddy images :^(, December 29, 2004
This review is from: A Century of Flight (DVD)
An aviation buff, I thought I could not go wrong getting this 4-DVD documentary for less than $20. I was wrong. This is far from the documentary quality one can find on the History and Discovery channels, in fact it actually reminded me of the murky and dull 16mm films seen in school (half a century ago) as a feeble gesture toward audio-visual "education".
Most of the early archival film clips didn't look as good as similar clips seen on TV, while the newer clips were almost uniformly unsharp or in bad color. The narration was half-decent, but overall the visual quality was so lacking this entire production seemed a distinctly amateur project done on a shoestring.
I had been fooled into thinking this DVD set might be a quality item because of the packaging in a neat metal case. I might as well keep the case and throw away the DVDs. The DVD publisher Madacy is one I DEFINITELY will try to avoid in future.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
If there was a zero star rating, I would use it, January 2, 2007
This review is from: A Century of Flight (DVD)
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BUY THIS COLLECTION
Ditto everything the other reviewers have written, with the addtion of this note:
For a collection featuring the SR-71 Blackbird on the cover, it is not even mentioned on any of the four discs.
What a disappointment.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Typical Madacy product, December 25, 2006
This review is from: A Century of Flight (DVD)
Had I realized this was a Madacy production before I bought it, I would have made a different decision. I learned long ago to avoid Madacy titles because of their poor production quality, but there was nothing on the box indicating Madacy involvement (it is there but almost impossible to read without a magnifying glass). The packaging was quite spectacular, unlike Madacy titles I had purchased in the past. Metal case with color printing and there was even a wonderful full-color book inside outlining many of the great pioneers of aviation and their aircraft with superb production quality. So, I was unprepared for the poor quality of the video content inside. I own many of the videos from disc 4 in VHS format, and could not believe how badly these have been reproduced on DVD. I can do a better job of transferring the VHS to DVD using my analog-to-digital converter! As other reviewers have pointed out (too bad I saw these posts after my purchase), the documentary is not organized in any meaningful pattern and fails to deliver on its promise of describing the history of aviation.
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