TV on DVD Buzz

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the reality and documentary categories.

60 Minutes World of Trouble - This is an Amazon DVD print on demand release of one of the 12 minute segments from the February 15, 2009 episode of 60 Minutes. This segment is about World Savings and the economic crisis ruining them or something like that.

60 Minutes “Buy American” - This is another 12 minute segment from the February 15, 2009, episode. This segment is about the Nucor Steel company lobbing for the buy American clause in the economic stimulus package and the possibility of other countries blocking American goods.

60 Minutes The War in Pakistan - This is also a 12 minute segment from the February 15, 2009 episode.

Body in Numbers - This is a Discovery Channel documentary with a subtitle of Life’s Mysteries Decoded.

NFL Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers Champions - The DVD version of this came out on February 24, 2009. On March 3, 2009 the Blu-Ray version is being released as an Amazon exclusive. This is a highlight reel of the Steelers season leading up and through winning the Super Bowl XLIII. It includes high definition footage of the entire 4th quarter of the Week 14 game vs. the Cowboys.

Ocean Animal Emergency - This is a NOVA documentary about sea animal emergencies and rescuing them.

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares - This is a two disc set. The special features include production notes and a biography of Gordon Ramsey. I think this is Series 1 of the show, which has been released on DVD before as part of Volume 1 of the show, but that seems to be no longer available.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the sports category.

The 2009 Rose Bowl Game - This release is of the 2009 Rose Bowl Game. I am not sure if it is the entire game as broadcasted or just some sort of highlight type DVD release of the game.

NFL Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers Champions DVD - This DVD release is about the Super XLIII game in which the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals. It follows the Pittsburgh Steelers from the beginning of the season through the Super Bowl win. It includes action highlights, sideline footage, and locker room footage from of the Pittsburgh Steelers season. This release is not the whole game, which would be a much better release, but it still might me a fun DVD for football/Steelers fans.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the documentary, reality and sports category.

2009 Allstate Sugar Bowl Utah vs. Alabama - This release contains the commercial free version of this college football bowl game.

2009 BCS National Championship Game DVD Florida vs. Oklahoma - This release contains the National Championship game for 2009 for college football in its commercial free entirety. It is also supposed to have some special features. Florida won the game 24-14 winning for the second time in the past three years.

2009 Cotton Bowl DVD Ole Miss vs. Texas Tech - This release is of the Cotton Bowl college football bowl game in its entirety without commercials.

2009 FedEx Orange Bowl Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati - This DVD contains the Orange Bowl college football game.

2009 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Texas vs. Ohio State - This release is of the Tostitoes Fiesta Bowl college football game in 2009.

The f Word Series One - This release is of the BBC show featuring Gordon Ramsey. In this reality show the chef rates other chef’s based on how many customers pay for the food at the end of the day. The customers pay base on how much they liked the food (the f word) and do not pay if it is bad.

Food Paradise - This release is a two disc set of episodes of this Travel Channel show including the best beef, fried food, and pizza joints.

NOVA: Alien from Earth - This release contains the almost hour special originally aired on PBS. This documentary is about an early human form that is also referred to as hobbit.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the sports category.

The WWE: The Best of Saturday Night’s Main Event - This contains a lot of the matches/episodes shown on network television (NBC and later FOX) between 1985 and 1992. This is a three disc set. There are also some extras, such as first ever match on SNME, “Real American” music video, Brother Love Interviews Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels Talks About Winning His First Intercontinental Title, and Matt Hardy Talks About Boxing Evander Holyfield.

Hewlett-Packard announced today that they will partner with Major League Baseball Productions to release Barry Bonds’ record-breaking home run game on DVD via their manufactured-on-demand service.

The DVD will be available at San Francisco Giants Dugout Stores and online at http://www.shop.mlb.com/, http://www.walmart.com/, http://www.fye.com/ and http://www.suncoast.com/. (more…)