Planet Earth / The Blue Planet: Seas of Life (Special Collector's Edition)
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Actor: David AttenboroughBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 950 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E4180
Studio: BBC Worldwide
Product features:
- BBC natural history producer Alastair Fothergill spent the last ten years producing two of the most stunningly beautiful series ever created, The Blue Planet: Seas of Life and Planet Earth. For the first time, these must-own programs will be offered together in special collector's gift set.Winner of two Emmy(R) Awards (Outstanding Cinematography - Non-Fiction and Outstanding Music Composition for
DVD Reviews of Planet Earth / The Blue Planet: Seas of Life (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: My copy has terrible image quality
Summary: 1 Stars
I have only just opened my new copy of the BBCvideo "The Blue Planet"/"Planet Earth" collector's edition (or collector's set). I feel that I must report my dissatisfaction with the packaging, the discs, and surprisingly with the picture quality of the video itself.
The packaging of this "Collector's Set" is dull, as if the colour has been washed out from all of the pictures on the boxes. Not really a problem. But after looking at the discs (10 in total), seven of mine had scratches on the playing surface the first time I took them out of the box. I have played disc one and disc five from "Planet Earth" and all video on both DVD's look to me as though they are bad rips of pirated movies. The images are blurred, out of focus, and all the highlights are blown out. The affects varies somewhat from scene to scene but it is considerably aggravating to watch. Even the title page text at the start of each video is not crisp on the screen but has jagged edges instead. I have just previewed disc one of "Blue Planet" and I must say that it too appears dull and out of focus albeit not to the same pitiful extent of "Planet Earth".
I recall these videos as crisp, bright, and completely engaging. There must be something wrong with this copy. Could it be that I received the one bad copy in this run of production? Or is this Collector's set of lower quality? Am I supposed to go out and buy the Blu-ray version just to enjoy this series as it was intended?
I am more than a little suprised. I hope other copies are better than mine. BTW - Other videos appear as they should on my computer, an Apple Powerbook G4. My video appears as it is encoded on the DVD. These copies are flawed in my opinion.
I guess I need to look into an explanation, refund, or exchange.
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