This programme features comments and chat from the lady herself, plus her two
equally bubbly sisters and soundbites from news reports. There's a great number
of arty short films including her Playmate of the Year promo and in schoolgirl
mode for College Fantasy, all of which feature a large amount of naked
flesh, mostly from Ms. McCarthy.
School's out for summer...
Like the
Anna Nicole Smith Playboy DVD,
the picture quality has few encoding problems so artifacts are rarely to be seen,
but the picture isn't quite as sharp as it could be, having been converted from
NTSC and if occasionally grainy, although it looks as if the grain in the
transfer is intentional as it's only in certain scenes. The film is presented in
fullscreen 4:3 as originally shot and the average bitrate is 6.5Mb/s,
occasionally peaking over 8Mb/s.
The sound quality does is fine, but doesn't amount to any more in the music scenes
than typical Playboy soft rock. There's no Dolby Digital logo on the cover, so I
presume it's Linear PCM Stereo as with most of the BMG DVD releases.
Extras :
Chapters :
The disc is very well chaptered with 16 covering the 56 minutes of the
programme, each chapter covering a separate item.
Languages & Subtitles :
The film is in English only, with no subtitles. This seems to be the case for
all of the current batch of BMG releases.
Menu :
The menu has all of two options: Scene selection or start the show.
There's no problems to be found with selecting anything.
Heavenly !
If you're a regular purchaser of Playboy videos and own a DVD player then
this release will fare better than the video, which has been available for
three years. The DVD only costs a pound more but allows you to skip to the different
sections, freeze-frame and, of course, rewind the best bits...
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
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