Road Bike Racing - Tour de France dvd?

Has anyone sprung for World Cycling Production's dvds of Tour de France 2003 hilights, either the four-hour or twelve-hour versions?

I'm wondering what the quality of the content and video production are like? Is it essentially a reworking of OLN broadcasts, or is the commentary specific to the dvd? Phil and Paul? How is the picture quality?

Has anyone sprung for World Cycling Production's dvds of Tour de France 2003 hilights, either the four-hour or twelve-hour versions?

I'm wondering what the quality of the content and video production are like? Is it essentially a reworking of OLN broadcasts, or is the commentary specific to the dvd? Phil and Paul? How is the picture quality?

I have the 12 hour version. There is almost an hour and a half of the D'Huez stage (still makes me tired watching that with all the constant attacking). However, the commentary is not OLN, but ITV feed with Phil and Paul. As a result, in addition to the rider updates, we get to see a lot of David Millar and get a stage by stage Millar update. You will always know where Millar is in each stage. I could have done without that...nothing against Millar, but to hear him whining about his chainring/derraileur again in the prologue, I could have done without that.

the Beloki crash, it's Sherwin doing the commentary when in the US on OLN, Liggett was on the air. If you listen close, you can hear Liggett on OLN while Sherwin was on ITV.

The DVD quality is excellent and the sound is in Dolby. There is some close up work on the stage one accident with a Euskatel rider bunny hopping over one of the crashed riders (I'd not seen this before).

I've watched about 12 stages...it's worth it if you like this sort of thing. But you can get it cheaper on amazon.com

Cipo'd enjoy this...it's as close as he'll probably get to the Tour again. :D

I don't have this year's DVD so I can't speak specifically on that one, but I have one from 2001. I bought it expecting bits of the OLN feed, but I was surprised with a much higher sound quality. In addition, you don't have the usual "sorry about the satellite images" problems you kinda get used to when you watch the live broadcast.
It's a great DVD to pop in when you're just rolling on a trainer. I've watched the whole thing several times and it seems you pick up new details or figure out tactics every time.

Yeah I have the 12-hour version of this year's tour also..So far I've gotten thru stage 16, and really like it, as it's the first Tour one that I have botten...I think it's just great!..

Benjamin