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Claudia Schiffer-Perfectly Fit: Lower Body Workout (1996)

Claudia Schiffer-Perfectly Fit: Lower Body Workout (1996)

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Released 19-Sep-2005

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Details At A Glance

General Extras
Category Sports Web Links
Rating Rated G
Year Of Production 1996
Running Time 58:18
RSDL / Flipper No/No Cast & Crew
Start Up Ads Then Menu
Region Coding 2,4 Directed By None Given
Studio
Distributor

Twentieth Century Fox
Starring Claudia Schiffer
Case ?
RPI ? Music None Given


Video Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame Full Screen, not known whether Pan & Scan or Full Frame English Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)
French Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)
Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio 1.29:1
16x9 Enhancement No
Video Format 576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio Unknown Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures No
Subtitles English for the Hearing Impaired
French
Italian
Spanish
Swedish
Dutch
French Titling
Italian Titling
Spanish Titling
Smoking No
Annoying Product Placement No
Action In or After Credits No

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Plot Synopsis

Claudia Schiffer was one of the most famous supermodels of the 1990's and this workout series was released originally released in 1996 when Claudia would have been at the height of her popularity.
 
This workout series has two separately sold discs; Perfectly Fit: Lower Body and Perfectly Fit: Upper Body.
 
This disc has the workout divided into 2 main sections Legs & Buns. Each workout lasts for just under 30 minutes and has its own warm up and cool down sessions. The workouts have been filmed in various locations with Claudia providing voice over instructions and encouragement.
 
I'm in reasonable shape but found the workouts to be fairly taxing. My legs were screaming by the end of that workout, but at least I had spent 40 minutes being able to admire Ms Schiffer.
 

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Transfer Quality

Video

The video is displayed in 1.29:1.

The video is not pretty. This would have been shot on video 13-14 years ago and as such has a lot of video related artefacts.

The colour is ok when it's supposed to be but because of various video effects most of the time its in grainy black and white.

Aliasing is a serious problem - see Claudia's striped top for annoying shimmer.

Colour bleed is also constant throughout.

Edge enhancement is also seen.

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Audio

The audio is a competent but ordinary Dolby Digital 2.0 track.

Claudia's dialogue comes through clearly.

The music track is probably a little muted than what you'd expect for a workout video. It sounds fine and never drowns out the voiceover.

There are no synch or click/pop issues.

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Extras

Web Links

A link to Fox International's site.

R4 vs R1

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    Seem the same so call it a tie.

Summary

Overall, it's typical workout DVD fare.

The video is very ordinary - it looks like its playing direct from VHS not DVD.

The audio is fine.

Ratings (out of 5)

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© Ben Smith (boku no bio)
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Review Equipment
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DisplaySony VPLHW10 projector onto 100 inch 16x9 screen. Calibrated with THX Optimizer. This display device is 16x9 capable. This display device has a maximum native resolution of 1080p.
Audio DecoderSony STR-DG820S . Calibrated with THX Optimizer.
AmplificationPioneer
SpeakersDB Dynamics VEGA series floor standers + centre, DB bipole rears, 10" 100W DB Dynamics sub

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