Customer Reviews

Super Bowl XXXII

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I bought this DVD because I found Super Bowl XXXII to be one of the best football games I'd seen in a long time, and I wanted to watch it again with high video and audio quality. Instead I found a run-of-the-mill NFL Highlights film that's maybe 25 minutes long. It does absolutely no justice to the real game. Yes, some plays can be seen from multiple angles. Yes you can choose to hear play-by-play from the Denver or Green Bay announcers, but only occasionally - what you listen to mostly is hyberbole from the NFL narrator. Finally, this DVD demonstrates a dark side of DVD's: when you pop the DVD in, you are immediately subject to a 3 minute advertisement for RCA - WHICH CANNOT BE SKIPPED. All DVD controls are disabled for the duration of this advertisement. And if you watch the highlights film to the end, you'll get to watch the advertisement again, whether you want to or not! This DVD should have cost 2.99, not 20.99.

As a Bronco and DVD fanatic, I had high hopes for this disk. I was greatly disappointed.

This DVD was originally only available as a freebie from RCA when you bought one of their players. Now that Polygram Video is distributing it (and asking over $20 for it), the RCA commercial that twice hijacked my player, and the ever-present RCA logo in the lower-right corner of the screen seemed intrusive and out-of-place.

The "Game" section of the disk contains a recap that is a little over 19 minutes long. The video quality is no higher than a decent VHS tape, and the icons that alert the user to special features (such as multiple angles) are way too large and distracting.

The rest of the disk's content is paltry, and requires tedious navigation to access.

NFL Films can do much better with the DVD format. How about a longer, more in-depth recap of the game, or video-intensive player bios (like the Elway: Champion Forever video now available)? Or, better yet, what if the entire game were on DVD, complete with audio tracks from the radio and TV broadcasters, on-field microphones, etc.? Such a disk would require a lot of collaboration, but it would be worth the $20 I wasted on this title.

What's right with this DVD? Well:
+It contains great highlights of one of the greatest games ever played.
+The picture quality is unsurpassed.
+You can listen to team-specific commentaries from the actual radio broadcasts from Denver or Green Bay.
+There are decent extras, including multiple angle looks at each of the big plays in the game.

What's not? Pretty much everything else:
-The video itself is maybe 15 minutes long. More than a dollar per minute of the main program.
-There is no video showing how each team made it to the Super Bowl, which is extremely disappointing.
-While there's historical context for previous Super Bowls, it's all basically text.
-The worst part of all: there is about a 5 minute advertisement that cannot be skipped, no matter what, every time you load up the DVD. Why publishers ever decided this was acceptable is beyond me. At least on VHS, you can fast-forward through the previews. Here, you cannot. I'm not sure who the bright guy was who thought it would be effective advertising to force consumers to watch an unnecessarily long ad multiple times, but hopefully we'll never see an utter debacle like this again.
-Given that there is a 5-minute ad for RCA that everyone has to watch, did they really need an RCA watermark on the bottom right of the screen? Do one or the other.

Save yourself some money and buy the VHS version instead. It's much better.

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As a lifetime Bronco fan I was hoping for a DVD video of the game. Instead this is nothing more than a highlight film and a poor one at that. There is no continuity and it's hard to follow, even when you already know the plays in the game. A waste of money. Guess I'll have to stick with my own VHS recording for now.

At last, a DVD that you can use to show off the "mulitple angle" feature of your player that isn't a porno film.

I was a little disappointed - the cover seems to imply that you'll be able to watch the whole game when actually it's just a 20 minute video with highlights. However, it does have mulitple camera angles of the best plays; slow-motion shots; sideline chatter and interchanges between the coaches, players and officials; pop-up stats; the chance to hear the Denver and Green Bay radio commentators give their spin on the game; and a few other nifty features.

The documentary is okay, but the NFL put out a better one on the Broncos' winning season on VHS. Denver fans will probably like this DVD better than the Green Bay folks. What I'd like to see is a DVD that has the entire game, with the bells and whistles this one has. It's possible: witness the recent excellence of "From the Earth to the Moon." Each disc in that series is four hours plus of video. A Super Bowl as good as XXXII should fit nicely, minus the commercials. Hell, you could put the commercials on it in a seprarate chapter and lower the cost of the disc. The best commericals always come out on the Superbowl anyway (but please retire the Bud Bowl).

I was very disappointed in this DVD. Considering the capabilities of the medium (even in 1998), the video is much too short, and contains far too little of the actual game. When I purchased it, I expected the complete game-and got a few highlights and statistics. Do not buy this DVD; the VHS video of the Broncos Super Bowl XXXII victory is far superior-and costs much less. The DVD is a ripoff-period.

Even though I was expecting to receive the whole game on DVD and not just the highlights, the DVD image quality compared to VHS and its other features make this a must for any Broncos fan. While everyone has seen the video replay of Elway's famous "helicopter" dive for a first down late in the 4th quarter to set up the winning score, this DVD let's you see it from 8 different camera angles. Moreover, NFL films does a great job on many other key plays of the game. For those Bronco fans who want to keep the memories alive forever of the greatest Super Bowl ever played (no other Super Bowl has been tied 3 times--at 7, 17, and 24) the quality of this DVD, versus the VHS tapes which came out after the game, make this a must to own and enjoy every year at Super Bowl time!

Personally being a die hard Bronco fan and seeing John Elway in his deserved moment of glory was a tear jerker for me. Anyone who knows films knows this is not the game but the highlights and they were great!...

Superbowl XXXII is not the best super bowl ever there were many better superbowls than this,like superbowl XXV when the giants beat the bills 20 to 19. Overall though this video is well put together and has different features like you can look at team rosters and you can choose which anouncers to listen to. choose which announcers to