Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series [Blu-ray]
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 stunning throughout As a documentary, Planet Earth may not be perfect but it comes close. As a spectacle, its simply spectacular. More importantly, you don't mind its sleight-of-hand and occasional vagueness in the commentary because you are almost constantly overwhelmed with the quality of the image, the novelty of the presentation and the technical wizardry associated with various time-lapse sequences, for example. And even if the commentary sometimes has the weakness of most nature documentaries (serious but long discussions essentially setting the stage for the money shot, typically a top predator making minced meat out of fluffy), it still manages to interest consistently, not just with sights of almost extinct animals but also with rarely seen, beautiful footage (swimming monkeys, blooming baobabs at night, water returning to the parched savanna...). So what if you hear one time more than necessary about the greatest migration ever (fill in appropriate species), the percentage of the earth covered by the geographic topic-du-jour or the fact that the animal on screen is invariably a (fill in appropriate moniker)-specialist ? You will see a lot that is not banal, not seen before, and certainly not like this. In addition, this Blu-Ray transfer honors the new high definition format. When you purchase a Blu-Ray drive -and I imagine an HD-DVD too- it does not take long to realize that many commercial discs have a quality barely better, if at all, than regular DVD. In particular, if you own a now relatively standard DVD with up-conversion, your standard DVD discs will look very good. In many cases, a good standard DVD, upconverted, will look as good or better than a so-so BD. Not so with Planet Earth on Blu-Ray. To put it simply, if you are new to high-definition, you have never seen this before. This is not a feeling you will automatically have with all BD releases. And once the technical magic has sunk in, you are still left with a lot of new images, and food for your thought. The ONE. Planet Earth is incredible, especially in blu-ray. BBC has created a masterpiece. There are certain parts you may not want to show to small children due to animals hunting other animals (which after you view planet earth, you can skip so they dont see it), for children I recommend "Marty Stouffer's Great Escapes" nature series, which is all about the hunted animals escaping the predators. Effort equals results, Blu-ray equals excellence The BBC put people in places where they have captured stunning images and moments in natural history. The HD quality is breath-taking. I don't like "nature shows" but I'll watch this collection over and over for its beauty alone.  Planet Earth to die for.... Breathtaking, me and my family Love this series. I encourage any nature enthusiast to pick this one up. | |||||||||||||
