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World Cycling Videos
Well, I've received and watched (twice) the LONG version of the latest
World Cycling Videos Tour de France and I have to tell you that this year the coverage bears a faint resemblance to the past versions. To start with - if you have high fidelity sound you will find in many places that Phil and Paul are completely drowned out by background noise SUCH AS MOTORCYCLE NOISE! In places they are drowned out by other commentators in another language. You can somewhat rectify this by disconnecting your stereo sound system and using just the small tinny speaker in your TV set so that isn't exactly insurmountable. But the sound production this year was the worst yet. Though I have to say that in the past they haven't had any noticeable problems. And the coverage seems to be mostly the full length coverage of the mountain stages. Now of course that's where all of the important action occurs in the GC but in the past they didn't seem to be quite so spotty. There ARE after all, other stages than the climbing ones. Finally I have to complain about the scenic crap inserted just to fill up space. I love France and it is a beautiful country but surely Chris Boardman is more interesting on a Tour de France tape than pictures of French castles from a helicopter. I don't know what happened this year since World Cycling Videos have done a great job in previous attempts. And I hope that next year they do better than this. But I have to say that although it is still worth buying the long version, it is a shadow of what it should have been. |
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