- Relive the drama and excitement
- All the incredible performances and athletic achievements
- Official Olympic DVD from NBC Sports
- Special bonus chapters featuring gold medal performances of Olympic Champions.
Album Description
Here's a Special Edition DVD that captures the most dramatic and exciting moments from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the competition was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Ten thousand five hundred athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports. The 2008 Summer Olympics did bring athletes from around the world together as they competed for the bronze, silver and gold medals. ... More >>
2008 Olympics: Beijing 2008 Highlights - The Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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If your idea of a “highlight” is to see runners crossing the finish line with their arms in the air, swimmers hugging after their race or athletes standing on the podium waiting to receive their medals then this DVD is for you. If you are looking for something a little more substantial….like actually seeing the race (or event) you will be very disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
Trying to compress many hundred hours of Olympic events into a 2 hour DVD is a foolish project. The main program on the DVD is a long music video, showing a few seconds each from many different events. That is barely worth watching, but the special features are a little more interesting. The special features do show a couple of dozen short events in their entirety, including all the Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt world record events.
The fantastic Olympic opening ceremonies are not included on this DVD, but there is a separate 3 hour DVD set for the ceremonies. That set is much more interesting than this one.
Rating: 2 / 5
I just recieved this in the mail and had missed much of the actual broadcast. I was hoping to get a good representation of the games here. Well make no mistake there is some good footage here. But sadly this whole DVD seems to be about American participation and medal winners. There are a few clips of the Jamaican runners.
But you’d be forgiven if you never knew that any other team but America mattered or won medals. I’m told that people in other countries get to watch much more balanced coverage than we do. On the basis of this DVD I’d guess that there was no boxing, no weightlifting, no boating events, no rhythmic gymnastics, no marathons, etc.
The actual highlights program is about 110 minutes. Not nearly enough to give anyone, except folks who need to chant U-S-A, an idea of the proceedings. Fortunately there are a couple of hours worth of actual NBC feed, mostly US medalists winning their events. There was also no critcal perspective whatsoever.
What would be nice would be something that gives us an idea what the athletes of the world were doing in Beijing in 2008. I miss the days when you could cheer the Kenyan runners or feel the political tension of the Ukrainian gymnasts. Instead we get the most isolationist vision of the world I’ve ever witnessed.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was pleased with the quality of what was contained in the video but I expected highlights of the games not a michael phelps homage and a female child gymnast pouting to be half of the contents. There were many events at those games and almost all were over looked – even the majority of track and field events.
It was not possible to know this when ordering the dvd. I expected more ; a lot more unfortunately. This situation has not been the case at prevoius olympics post-event coverage.
Is there no package available that does truly cover all the highlights? I am disappointed as a sports fan and an armchair critic.
Rating: 3 / 5
The opening ceremony was the most impressive ever, very doubtful it will ever be matched.
I was hoping to get a good summary of the opening and closing ceremonies, and as the name implies, highlights of the XXIX Olympiad.
It’s mostly about USA’s medal winners, receiving their medals and interviews of the winners.
USA is not the only country in this world!
In the world of HDTV, the video quality is not great.
(BUT If you are a relative of Phelps, you will love this dvd.)
Bought a new one that focusses on the ceremonies.
Rating: 1 / 5