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Title: Disappointing
Review: Although the subject matter of these lectures is extremely interesting, the DVD quality leaves a lot to be desired. I have watched the first two episodes so far and am totally put off. The female narrator is excellent, with a clear, pleasant voice and beautiful diction. However, the background music (the key word here is "background") is intolerably loud, to a level that it overpowers and drowns out the many expert commentators' voices, to a point where I missed probably half of what they had to say. Grrrrr! So frustrating! In addition, an older Egyptian who apparently grew up around the pyramids provides a lot of the commentary, but between his heavy accent and the loud music I couldn't understand half of whatever knowledge and wisdom he had to share. What a shame, since I was really looking forward to watching and hopefully learning from these DVDs. I'm going to stick with books!
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