NFL Pittsburgh Steelers: Road to XLIII

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(2 stars) - Disappontment
I purchased this with the assumption it would be similar to Road To XL but unfortunately was mistaken. The set doesn't include any extra features and basically was a waste of money.

(4 stars) - Nearly Perfect
I was very pleased with this product. The games are very well edited and the crispness and clarity of the recordings is excellent. The only drawbacks are, as mentioned by other commenters, that there are no extras and they are broadcast with the TV commentators instead of the local guys. Personally, I would have preferred the local announcers since I am not a big fan of Madden or some of the comments he made in the Superbowl (like saying Harrison should have been ejected- and this coming from a guy who used to coach the dirtiest team in the league, whose players would do things like clothes-line Lynn Swann in between plays [I wonder how often he called for his own players to be "thrown out" back then?]- end of rant).

All and all, I think the DVD sets are great and would recommend them to anyone who wants to be able to re-live these historic games again and again.

(2 stars) - not as good
I'm disappointed with this "Super Bowl XLIII" DVD set. Sure, it contains four football games as advertised, but that's about all the good I can say about it. In almost every way this set is inferior to the "Pittsburgh Steelers - Road to Super Bowl XL (Post-Season Collector's Edition)" DVD box set.

The video quality is quite similar and almost exact. However, the video presentation seems quite rushed on the XLIII set, as if the on-field action was cut even shorter than the XL set. (The DVD menus are "flashier" this time around, although you look at them for about three seconds.)

The XLIII audio track features the inferior television commentary as opposed to the superior radio commentary used for the XL set. The XLIII set also uses an audio track that seems to have been mixed in a studio with a four-year-old child constantly pushing buttons. The audio track is very uneven and distractingly so. (The crowd noise keeps rising and falling although nothing is happening on-screen and it occurs too often to be replays on the "Jumbotron".) BOTH sets, XL and XLIII, feature English-only subtitles. (But considering the target audience, I'm not surprised.)

The XLIII set is without any extras. NO extras. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. This is a major disappointment. The XL set had one documentary per disc.

The packaging is different and less eco-friendly. However, I personally prefer the hard plastic XLIII packaging to the cardboard XL packaging for long-lasting presentation.

Here's the short version:

Super Bowl XL (40) set
VIDEO - DVD
AUDIO - Radio commentary
EXTRA - One documentary per disc
PACKG - Cardboard

Super Bowl XLIII (43) set
VIDEO - DVD
AUDIO - TV commentary
EXTRA - None
PACKG - Plastic

While I believe that the video quality of the XLIII set "MAY" be better due to the fact that a Blu-Ray version was produced, it's imperceptible on DVD. I also believe the extras were cut to make room on the discs for this imaginary "improved video quality". The audio commentary difference is one purely of preference and is obviously inferior to me. The omitted extras are a disappointment.

Aside from having four more football games on DVD, this set is almost a WASTE OF MONEY. (A DVR-version would be better, at least then I'd have the commercials.) The XL set is far superior. Buy that. (Pittsburgh Steelers - Road to Super Bowl XL (Post-Season Collector's Edition))

(4 stars) - Pittsburgh Steelers Road to XLIII DVD
As a long time Steeler fan, and an owner of the Road to XL dvd set, I was looking forward to getting this set. The quality of the dvd's is great. The video and sound is fantastic. If all you want is the same old, tired commentary of Al Micheals and John Madden, then by all means, buy this set. However, if you have a dvd recorder, you could have done just as well, except for editing of commercials, of course, but I kinda like them
If, however, you are like me, and were looking forward to hearing the Steelers radio announcers, as in the Road to XL set, you will be VERY DISAPPOINTED, as I am. While the quality, as I said earlier, is great, the decision to include NO BONUS MATERIAL...NONE!!!, is a MAJOR disappointment. If you didn't record the games, these are worth having, if you did record them, save your money.
I hope the NFL corrects this mistake soon and releases another set of discs soon. I am sending them a request, and my opinion of this set, tonight.

(3 stars) - Great games, but network announcers
Any Steelers fan already knows about the games, but one important note is that the announcers on these disks are the network guys rather than Tunch and Hillgrove. Don't know why they did that, it was the local guys on the Road to XL package.

If you get the Blue-ray version you can get Bill and Tunch on the Super Bowl broadcast, but that's it.

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