IMAX Presents: Australia - Land Beyond Time

IMAX Presents: Australia - Land Beyond Time
by David Flatman

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Actor: David Flatman
Director: David Flatman
Brand: Razor
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: IMAX, 1.77:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Magic Play

DVD Reviews of IMAX Presents: Australia - Land Beyond Time

DVD Review: Dissapointment, thy name is IMAX
Summary: 2 Stars

Once again, an IMAX documentary where the only thing that seems to matter are pretty pictures. While the image quality is superb it's the only real redeeming feature. There's no real exploration of the ecology of the Outback, there isn't much discussion of the wildlife (yay, kangaroos, yay perenties). What discussion there is is basic, repetitive and about on par with what you'd get in a 3rd or 4th grade science class. It's amazingly pretty, but there's nothing else there. It's like a screen saver for your TV basically.
The subtitles were also horrible; words were misspelled, just flat out missing, sometimes out of sync with the audio... I use subtitles because my hearing is so/so, and that was a real pain for me.

DVD Review: Australia
Summary: 4 Stars

I give this one three and a half stars. Great I-Max photography as usual, however maybe just not enough time to cover more of Australia, being such a vast land. Seemed to be focused on just a few points. But, great family show. Glad to have it in the collection.

DVD Review: Cover mislead me, not for 2009 HDTVs
Summary: 1 Stars

The cover says this is a 75 minute DVD. Well, the program is only the usual IMAX 40+ minute version. Also, this says "large format widescreen" and "16x9 widescreen" format." It would have been better quality if they stuck with the original IMAX dimensions, as this low-detail letterbox is not anamorphic and has relatively low quality by today's standards (it has been for some years now!). The program itself is OK to good in places but not exceptional. Some years ago (right after VHS), this would have been acceptable. Production standards have increased substantially (see BBC productions like Planet Earth and Galapagos, for example).

DVD Review: Australia: Land Beyond Time (IMAX) - Blu-ray Info
Summary: 3 Stars

Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
MPEG-2 BD-25 / AACS / 1080p24
Running time: 0:42:00
Feature size: 14,40 GB
Disc size: 19,71 GB
Average video bit rate: 40.00 Mbps (Constant bit rate)
Subtitles: English / Chinese (Traditional)
Number of chapters: 7

English Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Dutch Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
French Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
German Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Korean Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 (48 kHz / 448 kbps)

#Deleted Scenes: B-Roll
#Featurettes
--Director's Commentary
--The Making of Australia: Land Beyond Time

DVD Review: Australia: Land Beyond Time
Summary: 5 Stars

As an ex-patriate Australian living in the USA, it made me very homesick.

Beautifully composed, with a wonderful dialogue (though done by an Englishman for international appeal, I think) and technically correct, it should be part of all Elementary Schools' video library!

Description of IMAX Presents: Australia - Land Beyond Time

Australia, the world's largest island and smallest continent is an exotic, intriguing land shaped by its isolation from all other lands. With thousand of miles of red desert sand dunes that characterize its famous Outback and lush coastal rainforests rich with unique wild life, Australia is a place of extremes. Australia- Land Beyond Time takes viewers on a breathtaking journey back in time to witness the birth and evolution of a mysterious land that harbors remnants of Earth s earliest life and many of it s strangest creatures that exist nowhere else on the planet.

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