Beach Balls [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Good chronology of the year..........2005-01-31

First of all we should not forget that 2004 was hardly one of the best years for F1. So you can't put excitement in where it did not happen.

That said this DVD has much to commend it. The commentator for a start - nice to hear Ben Edward's voice even if he is reading a script. He is very good on Motors TV for the BTTC etc and he plus Wattie made a fine team for that year Sky did F1 in full. Previous videos in this series had some right plonkers... Jon 'No Fun' Woss must have either had a good agent or they let him do it for a laugh... 'Gwand Pwee' anyone?

Seriously though, this DVD is a good way of running through the 'best bits' of the year.... lots of on board footage, lots of interviews etc I had not heard before. They captured just about all the big incidents and overtaking moves... there were even some from MS himself... you know the only guy to win a WC without having done any overtaking for position all year... bah!

So it is a summary rather than giving any real insight or whatever over and above the ITV coverage. So much different from their year-end programme... so don't think you don't need this DVD because you have theirs on tape... I might buy this DVD (I used Amazon's VG DVD rental service) and throw out all my ITV tapes of the races...;

a tad boring!!!.......2004-12-27

I am a big fan of Formula 1 and watched every grand prix of the 2004 season which I enojyed. Unfortunatly I didn't enjoy the video as much as it doesn't explain the races and qualifying really well and doesn't really give you alot of behind the scenes and this is what I wanted most. It gives you glimpses of some press conferences but for no more than 15 seconds but there is a time in the video where you get Montoya and Michael Schumacher in a press conference and Montoya called him either "blind" or "stupid." If you are wanting interviews every minute and behind the scenes, I dont recommend this as you don't get alot and I am disappointed as the 2002 review has to be the best but this video does not do has many behind the scenes.
If you do enjoy formula 1 and everything to do with it then I would buy this but I guarantee you, you will only watch it once.

FIA Formula One World Championship 2004 Review.......2004-12-02

This video or dvd is very good and very well lay out, just like most other F1 yearly reviews. Ok the 2004 season wasnt that interesting at times, but they have managed to fit in the best and most exciting parts of the season.

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Excellent !.......2008-03-07

Well the title says it all really, Ive thoroughly enjoyed watching all of the content of this set. There is some overlap between the performances on 'Story So Far' and 'Golden Moments', but they're different enough to easily warrant having both. I was surprised a set like this didnt include either Fire & Ice or the Russian All Stars tour, but then I suppose theyre still available separately anyway. Also, the 'Venus' performance from their first tour isnt included, and I wouldve liked it to be, but otherwise its a pretty comprehensive set. You get all their competitive free dances,including some very early stuff, osp's from 82/84/94 (no rock-n'roll from '83 unfortunately.) Its the olympic Bolero not worlds, but strangely the very last shot (where they collapse onto the ice) is from a different performance entirely, because you can see its a different arena ! And then theres lots of professional stuff - hat trick, tango, take 5, missing, encounters, song of india, stormy weather, fred & ginger, tango diabolique & their performance with yo-yo-ma. Possibly more that I cant remember offhand! And thats not includeing Ice Adventures & Face The Music.... If youre a fan this is a set well worth getting, it'll give you hours of pleasure.

Totally insufficient info for purchasers.......2007-11-17

How can Amazon expect punters to buy this set until they know exactly what's on it? I have just received an email promoting it but clearly Amazon aren't aware we are skaters here and "know our subject". Surely they realise many of us, particularly skaters like my family, already have DVDs and videos of T&D? Before I consider buying this I want to know EXACTLY in detail what's on the 4 DVDs.

For example, I fairly recently bought a DVD which I understood from the description would include T&D's Olympic winning Bolero performance. Instead, I found to my extreme annoyance that although other amateur performances in championships were on the disk, the Bolero performance was a later professional performance which whilst delightful of course, totally lacked the tension of the original and wasn't what I wanted at all - I am far less interested in pro performances. So although the description was accurate in that the Bolero was on the disk, nothing warned me that it wasn't the Olympic performance. Why wasn't it stated in the description that the Olympic performance wasn't included but instead a different performance? I felt cheated and wished I hadn't bought the disk. I would have preferred to wait for what I wanted.

All too often on websites selling DVDs, the information given is inadequate. Is it in Amazon's interests if purchasers are annoyed with disks they find don't contain what they expect? I realise Amazon can't always preguess what punters may want but if you give all the relevant information, we can make informed choices and are less likely to be angry after purchase.

I can't rate this disk set properly until I've seen it, but I won't be buying it unless I remember to check it sometime later and see if adequate information is given. I need an exact list of each feature. On the information given so far, how can I give it more than 3 stars for the fact our superlative skaters are on the disks? In fact, how can I rate it when I haven't yet seen the set? I'm not rating it on their quality of performance which for me anyway is unquestioned, but on the poor information given to would-be purchasers. It would help if Amazon allowed a "not yet seen" rating.

In passing, when are we going to have a DVD of the great John Curry's performances?

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style over substance.......2005-02-07

This years season review is rather disappointing. It repeats the recent trend of showing a rather brief review of the season then beefing up the dvd with special features. While these special features are interesting (on board footage,etc) they detract from what should be the main focus of the disc - what actually happened on the rallies that make up the WRC season. Only about half of the disc is dedicated to the review. This means that we see about 50% less action than the older VHS versions used to contain. In the future let us hope that these dvds capture more of the substance of World rallying rather than just the style!

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