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Summary: SKATING FANS, DON'T MISS THIS
Comment: I watched T&D get sixes across the board for Bolero, back in 1983 in England. It made me cry. Although there are too many "talking heads" and not enough skating on the video, what there is, is wonderful. I purchased a tape which the seller said had only been viewed twice,(why?), and the quality was excellent for a recording more than twenty years old. Now I have to get "Face the Music". I am so glad these tapes are still available.
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Summary: The Gold Standard
Comment: In the climax of their phenomenal careers, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the 1984 Olympic gold medal in Ice Dancing and set the standard against which every dance team since will forever be measured. Relive their stellar performances with this video and find the magic again! A must-have for skating and sports libraries
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Summary: Video quality is poor but it's worth the nostalgic trip....
Comment: I bought this video after reading the warnings by other viewers of the poor video quality. I was still somewhat taken aback, however, when I popped the tape in the vcr. It will be a shock to anyone used to a digital signal from a satellite, DVD or frankly even a good quality vcr. HBO Video and the BBC made no attempt to remaster the video or audio for that matter. Both are very poor. If I rated it on this alone, I would've given it 1 star.Having said all that, however, I still very much enjoyed the tape. You do get to learn how T&D started, the sacrifices they made, and the triumph they became. Some of the interviews could have been excluded and the BBC interviewer apparently believes that good technique is asking an inane question, sticking the boom mike in the subject's face and hope they're too polite to decline to answer. For example, I exploded with laughter when early in the tape and T&D's career, he asked the male member of the Ukranian ice dancing team, (who were the World Champions at the time of the interview) "when did he realize T&D had so much talent?" The skater replied somewhat miffed that he barely knew them and had only seen them skate once or twice; the BBC interviewer then proceeded to ask the female member the same question !!
I'd recommend this video if only to watch Torvill and Dean skate the Pase Doble routine where Dean conceptually treats Torvill as his cape. These two were the Michael Jordan of ice skating. People hadn't seen their like before and haven't since....
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Summary: Torvill and Dean Ice Skating
Comment: I thought the video beautiful. I would have like to see more of their skating because I think they are the best ever, even better than the famous Russian couple that skated at the same time or a bit earlier.No one skates to Bolero the this couple, no one.
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Summary: Awful Quality Control
Comment: From what little we could see of the skating it was excellent and proves that there still is no ice dancing couple in Torvill and Deans class. Unfortunately the tape we received was of such awful quality that it was unwatchable (although we did suffer through it to see if it improved at any point). It constantly 'tracked' and was so full of static and snow that for much of the dancing we were left guessing what was going on.
It is too bad that HBO Home Video can't produce a better quality tape. I guess we will look for a DVD next time.
We hope to find a format where we can watch the performance and not have to suffer with the medium.
