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Formula One 2000: World Championship Review

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4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Okay, this DVD cannot allow you to view every race summary of the 2000 F1 World Championship Series continuously. It's a minor flaw, in my opinion, and it's why remote controls were invented!

The race summaries may leave you wanting, panting, even drooling for more, but to actually GET more, you'd have had to acquire a PADDOCK PASS for every F1 track on the calendar. (And, if you had that kind of access, what the heck are you doing online? Shouldn't you be in Monaco playing baccarat against James Bond?)

Yes, this DVD is far from perfect, but it is still an awesome disc for any Formula One fan, and the very minor flaws are not enough to ignore this quality product.

When you pop in the disc, you must first click the flag corresponding to the 2000 F1 race you wish to view. Then, you are directed to a menu for "CONTINUOUS" or "INTERACTIVE" viewing. "CONTINUOUS" plays every feature from beginning to end on that circuit, while "INTERACTIVE" allows you to watch any of the features at any point of the race. I usually choose "CONTINUOUS." At the next menu, you can choose to watch a summary of the race, a wider view from secondary cameras, an in-car camera, coverage of cars pitting during the race, or highlights of the "onboard computer" that shows the order of the cars during the races.

Let me tell you that I watched this DVD with great enthusiasm and satisfaction. I devoured the video highlights and the other extras, and it will take you some time to get through them all. The sounds are top notch, the picture is digital-quality, and the summaries give you a great sense of being there that many of us did not have in 2000.

Others have criticized this DVD for being what they felt it SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Unfortunately, it won't please everybody, and I'm not here to shout down the detractors. However, you are given so much quality video on this disc that criticizing it is almost ridiculous.

It's not all it could be, but it is MORE than enough to satisfy your hunger for Formula One sounds and visuals.

For quality Formula One coverage, it's the best-bet around, folks!

IF YOU LIKE YOU'RE FORMULA 1 THEN BUY THIS DVD.IT HAS SOME AMAZING ONBOARD CAMERAS,GOOD USE OF YOURE DVD ANGLE BUTTON,WATCH THE RACING WITH COMENTARY ON OR OFF.THE TRANSFER TO DVD WAS TAKEN FROM THE F1 DIGITAL TELEVISION SOURCE WHICH MEANS YOU GET THE SHARPEST,BEST SOUNDING FORMULA 1 EXPERIENCE THIS SIDE OF ACTUALLY BEING AT A RACE OR STAYING IN GERMANY AND HAVE ACCESS TO F1 DIDITAL.A MUST BUY FOR ANY OPEN WHEEL RACING FAN.DEFINATALLY A GLIMPSE OF WHAT DVD HAS TO OFFER FOR MOTORSPORT FANS WORLDWIDE..

Great DVD for a great Formula One Season. Different Options: Super, Track, On-board Camera(OBC), Pits and Data. All of them are good except for Data which doesn't give any useful or interesting information.

Would love to see more OBC clips (complete laps). Should've covered qualifying and should've give a point standings at end and/or beg of each round to provide a better insight on complete season fight for title.

Lack of interviews also kept this DVD on 4 star rating.

This DVD is worth the 17 Dollars for sure, but would appeal to knowledgable fans more than the casual racing fan.

Absolutely pitiful. Very little good footage. Almost no continuous footage. No pre-race materials. No qualifying. No driver interviews to speak of... No pole position laps.

This is a complete waste of plastic. If you are a fan or not - do not buy this. Hopefully someone will come out with a true race-by-race season DVD that has great footage, full laps on board, telemetry, pit actions, driver interviews (pre and post race), and each pole position lap from the season.

This DVD provides very clear image, on-board cam, pit and track coverage. However, it does not provide enough in-depth pre/post-race interview as you normally find in official F1 review VHS video (that usually costs $30+). I was expecting the continuous version to be the same as the official F1 review VHS, but I was wrong. So be prepared on what you are going to buy. But the never-seen before track view angle, on-board cam and pit lane activities do seem very interesting.

I must have gotten a bum copy. For several of the races featured on the disc, the video quality is extremely poor. The screen will flicker about every second. In their coverage of the Indy race, the top 1/3rd of the screen just shows some garbled mess that never moves throughout their coverage! This mess only happens in 3 races, but it's still very annoying. The coverage of the other races comes in crystal clear.

This DVD is by far the best FIA season review ever. Never mind the other reviews listed that did not like it. They are obviously not into F1. This DVD is Bernie-vision. It has the in-car shots, pit action, and behind the scenes that the U.S. fan never sees on television. See the wing come off the back of Irvine's Jaguar, on-board with Frentzen during the wreck in Italy, Schumacher being congratulated for winning the championship by Villenue, Hakkinen, and Coulard during weigh-in after the race. I can't wait for the 2001 DVD.

I bought this DVD in spite of the bad review from the guy in Laguna Beach. Well he was right and I was wrong. This is a terrible DVD. It is much worse than the season reviews on VHS that I've buying and watching for years. It is very hard to watch a complete race, there is less racing footage than before, and you can't watch the complete season in one sitting. Get familiar with your menu settings on your remote control you will be using them a lot.

The FIA Formula One season review has been around for quite a long time and has delivered solid quality reporting as far as the highlights of the championship season go. Until the advent of digital TV (or Bernievision) in F1 and the new format of the DVD those reviews were clearly limited to what you could put on a VHS and make available basically in movie format.

The 2000 review DVD makes use of the menu and interactive capabilities by offering different angles on every race, the pitstops, the on-board cam, etc. Unfortunately there is the same (soemtimes lame) commentary associated with each angle, and each race report overall is pretty short.

There are also no additional faetures, interviews etc. that follow the major off-track developments of the season.
Overall the great advantages of more storage space and interactive cababilities of the DVD medium have not been used to their fullest

I have been a F-1 fan for years. I attended three European races in 2000 and I attended 13 races this year. Some of the complaints of this DVD suggest there are not enough interviews, continuous track time, pre-race information, etc. Let us be realistic. Monaco alone goes for four days, not including press interviews, etc. You would need 18 discs, or more, to cover all of the races. I was in the paddock for three of these races and I still did not see the camera views and driver comments included in the DVD. Some people will always complain (the coffee is too hot, not hot enough, on and on). This is a great review of the F-1 2000 season and for less than the cost of three beers at Hockenheim. If you are a fan, buy it! I can't wait to get the 2001 season DVD.