Keep Sake: Commemorative DVD / BluRay

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

Also, the Shopping Channel is in the Rogers Communication conglomerate.
I doubt it's any different, but perhaps they offer other credit card options.

http://www.theshoppingchannel.com/pr...ymBoxSet504828

Also, free shipping.

How is it that it is in stock there but the CTV website states

Your commemorative Blu-Ray box set will ship within six weeks of the completion of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

EDIT
nm...it says the same thing, I fail at reading descriptions.

[amorak]

Any info on what the Bleu Ray has? AKA is it uncompressed video ro ty compressed 720p/1080i crapola?

[jar_e]

Incase you didn't get the email, the blu-ray FINALLY shipped this past week. Hopefully will get it early this week.

[Mazrim]

I got the blu-ray yesterday and checked some of it out. The hockey disc is pretty good. They have highlight packages for the prelims (about 30 minutes), the quarter-finals, semi-finals and Bronze medal game (about 40 minutes, plenty showing Kipper getting shelled by the USA) and the entire gold medal game (1 and a half hours total, for some reason the first period had the score/info in french). Didn't watch women's hockey yet.

The picture quality looks to be 720p on the blu-ray. Sound quality was iffy in spots unfortunately. It certainly wasn't uniform, and sometimes I thought it sounded like a radio station. Oh, and the whole thing is narrated by Brian Williams, who does a good job.

Disc 1 - Olympic Highlights, Opening/Closing Ceremonies, Nordic
Disc 2 - Hockey
Disc 3 - Skating, Curling
Disc 4 - Bobsled, Skeleton, etc.
Disc 5 - Ski Cross, other ski/snowboard sports.

Expect a bare bones package and simple menus. There's no chapters from what I could tell (didn't really check, but the gold medal hockey game was one big chunk from the looks of it, I ended up fast forwarding at 120x speed to get to the end of the 3rd period). Still a good keepsake though!

[SebC]

Got mine... now I need a BR player. Couldn't bring myself to buy SD when HD is available.

[jar_e]

Only thing that sucked was trying to watch the gold medal game there was no chapters to jump forth. Had to FF all the way to the OT.

[Mazrim]

I watched a bit more of the blu-ray this weekend, and I can say that some of the decisions they made to cut time down is starting to grate on me. For example, I have a feeling that in order to fit both Figure Skating and Curling on one disc, they had to really cut the Curling like crazy.

I'm all for trimming down some of the more boring material, but condensing the Gold Medal Men's game into about 20 minutes, and then almost 15 minutes for the post-celebration and mandatory "I Believe" highlight package which I always turn off, it was annoying. I wanted to watch the game develop, not just see ONLY the good shots from only half the ends of the game. You never even get to watch any parts where they strategize on what to do next. Colour me disappointed in the Curling package.

Of course, figure skating is the full meal deal because...well, how do you cut up that without damaging the integrity of their performance?

[Mango]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

I wanted to watch the game develop, not just see ONLY the good shots from only half the ends of the game. You never even get to watch any parts where they strategize on what to do next. Colour me disappointed in the Curling package.

I'm glad to read I'm not the only one who feels this way. I would have preferred if they showed the pivotal ends for both the men and women. Cheryl Bernard made some pretty clutch shots on her way to the medal round and they barely showed any context of how her shots came to be. If an end was blanked, that's fine, skip it. However, I attended many of the games on the women's side and so much was missed. I'm really disappointed.

Also, I found there to be a skipping program with the curling/figure skating DVD. The hockey one is fine. However, as mentioned earlier in the thread, I'm surprised they didn't put chapters in the hockey games.