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| The 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Show | 
 enlarge | Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 334
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 62
ASIN: B0013UF95M
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Girls, beaches and more girls, so what's the problem February 20, 2008
95 out of 110 found this review helpful
Its really hard to say something bad about SI review of girls, beaches, swim wear. On one hand its about girls, bikinis (lack thereof) and beaches. You can't go wrong with that.
One the other hand, the event tries to get all preachy and gives us insight about the photographers, models, the location. Who really cares? Its about girls, bikinis (lack thereof) and beaches. Can't we all get along and focus on the really important stuff like girls, bikinis and beaches.
I mean I really don't care about locations, pirate ships or whether Walter is the greatest photographer known to man. Truth to tell I hate Walter and his crew of people. He gets to go to beaches and take pictures of women. So I don't want to hear about his problems. I just want see girls, bikinis and beaches.
The reason that I rate it so badly is that I don't get anything out of it. SI gets the money and the publicity, the models get publicity, the photographers get the publicity but I get nothing out of it except visual pleasure. So just give me the visual pleasure without the blather.
Unbox play locks up when i try to watch this vid February 21, 2008
20 out of 37 found this review helpful
I downloaded the video and can watch it w/Windows MediaPlayer, but when i click to watch it in Unbox player, the program locks up. Other videos i have for Unbox play ok.
How did they manage to make this boring? March 1, 2008
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Take a handful of the world's most beautiful tall undernourinshed 20'ish women and film them in strained positions looking bored. Call it a show.
DON'T let them tell you about themselves (which would probably be funny and touching).
I say SI - shoot this again. Get a loft in Greenwish Village, have the very same set of women sit around in T-Shirts and jeans, no make-up, sipping some wine, and just tell their stories. (OK, lowcut wet t-shirts and tight jeans, but still, .....).
Seriously, I did watch this 30 minute show on television (I DVR'd it), and I had to force myself to watch the whole thing. And I am a guy that loves to watch beautiful women.
Somehow, SI has managed to take one of life's greatest joys and drain the life and joy OUT of it.
Unbox version has problems. February 23, 2008
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
The video is shot in 16:9; but the unbox video is inexplicably 4:3. I couldn't figure out how to override the setting in the unbox video player or in windows media player. So, in the few minutes of the show that I watched, all the people were stretched out vertically.
I tried to watch in Media Player Classic (it will let me fix the picture); but it wouldn't play because of the DRM.
I loaded the portable file onto my creative zen vision w, and I was able to stretch to full on that device to get the proper aspect. but the portable file bitrate is so horrible, the show was still unwatchable. There were tons of compression artifacts and lots of blockiness. In a show like this, where the primary reason to watch is to look at the pictures, you want a good resolution and a good bitrate.
I only watched a few minutes because the show is extremely boring. And the technical difficulties make hard to watch.
I gave it two stars because the women are very good looking even when distorted.
Wait for the DVD to show up in the bargain bins. The video quality will be great and the aspect ratio correct.
Low quality, not worth it. February 25, 2008
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
I just watched the free SI video from Amazon Unbox on my TiVo.. I'm glad it was offered, since it demonstrated to me that I am NOT interested in purchasing any Unbox videos.
I was shocked by how bad the image quality was. The aspect ratio looked wrong, as if it had been a 16x9 video viewed full-screen on a 4x3 screen. The TiVo should have rescaled that for me... my TV's aspect ratio is correctly set in the TiVo settings. The resolution was bad: stairstepping and moire looked like I was seeing a 320x200 YouTube video. If that's Amazon Unbox quality, I'm not interested.
This TiVo is attached to a SDTV... there's no excuse for it to look bad. I'm glad I didn't try to watch it on my HDTV.
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