A slightly less-than-excellent release of an excellent show.
The product description and the other reviews give a good breakdown of why you should like Top Gear- a trio of insane presenters who'd be as at home in a sitcom as they are behind the wheel of the supercars they love.
I'll stick with the DVD itself, which is nice to have but has a few flaws.
The first flaw is that the contents aren't perfectly uncut. Most of the "news" segments that featured in eight of the ten episodes of Season 10 are missing- only two are included. Some of the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segments are also missing- specifically, rugby star Lawrence Dallagio, Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders, and comedian Keith Allen. The back of the box says, in tiny print, "For clearance reasons certain edits have been made." Presumably, to save license payments to certain carmakers and celebrities, they dropped less memorable and more Brit-centric material. However, so far as I can tell these are the only cuts; there is ample material remaining...
Horrible DVD set of the world's best TV show
I'm not even going to bother extolling Top Gear's virtues. It's the best show on the air. Go watch it. However...
This DVD set is terrible.
First thing to notice is that the packaging is cheap, flimsy, and extremely minimal. The retention clips in mine were already broken in two places. Two of the DVDs overlap, like shingles, and scratches are inevitable. There is no insert, other than a BBC survey about the discs, which you might want to keep and use, though I suspect no one actually reads those things.
Second thing to notice is the quality of the video. It's oversharpened, probably to try to cover up the blurriness. The blurriness is probably because the widescreen video appears merely to have been zoomed up from the central portion of the letterboxed BBC America/Canada airings. You end up with blurry, sharpened, aliased mud. It's almost painful to see on anything other than a 23" tube TV.
Third thing to notice is that,...
5 star show 2.5 dvd release
I have waited for the day when TG would be released on dvd and I am slightly let down by series 10 dvd release. First off all the episodes are EDITED on this 3 dvd release which does include the Botswana special. I have not fully viewed each episode but on the 1st episode supercar challenge (looking for the best driving road in Europe) the music had been changed and I can only assume its the same through out the series. As I have stated this series is broken down into 3 discs which is as follows
Disc 1: run time 204 minutes
Ep 1 51:27
Ep 2 50:25
Ep 3 50:32
Ep 4 (Botswana special) 51:28
Disc 2: run time 150 minutes
Ep 5 50:08
Ep 6 49:08
Ep 7 50:35
Disc 3: 152 minutes
Ep 8 50:34
Ep 9 51:06
Ep 50:04
you would have thought they would have left the language unbleeped for dvd they didn't I guess they thought I'd be offended by such...
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