Earthly Edens: BORA BORA
by T. Patrick Horton
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Actor: Beautiful Relaxing SceneryDirector: T. Patrick Horton
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 40 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Studio: Horton Productions
DVD Reviews of Earthly Edens: BORA BORA
DVD Review: Great Images, Somewhat Short, Sound is Ok
Summary: 4 Stars
As other reviews have said, this is a DVD of 40 minutes of scenes around Bora Bora, from the beaches to the motus, to the mountain scapes to turtles and rays in clear water, waters, etc.
I examined the DVD and saw that it was consuming about 6GB of space on the DVD, even though the video footage is only 40 minutes. This seems to indicate that there's very little mpeg compression (which is an amazingly good thing). Normally, I see 2 hours of footage on 4GB of space for regular movies, just to compare. So with only 40 minutes on 6GB, I couldn't notice any compression artifacts on my traditional CRT tube 32" monitor. I would love to see this on a widescreen HDTV monitor, especially since the images are in 16x9 widescreen format.
The sound is ok - there's a lot of background noise of the waves crashing on the reefs. This is all natural sound, but I wish they could've mixed the sound a bit better and tweaked the constant background noise turned down so that we can clearly hear the occassional bird chirps, or the sound of the waves lapping on the beach. This is my minor gripe with the DVD (and thus the 4 stars).
Also, there are some great footage, but each footage only lasts about 15 seconds, which is short. The producers could've made each footage last a little bit longer and made the video maybe an hour instead of 40 minutes. I mean, this is supposed to be a relaxing video, not a video for people with hair-trigger short attention spans, right? That's my other minor gripe.
Otherwise, this is a great DVD to show off your monitor. If I get my own widescreen HDTV monitor, this will be the first DVD that I'll pop in my player, at least for the visuals but maybe not for the sound.
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