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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
I have had the good fortune to see this title on the National Geographic Channel prior to it's DVD release, and it is truly amazing, the visuals are fantastic and the naration superb. Although I have a 42" plasma TV the program was displayed in glorious low def, despite this it looked fabulous. The content will appeal to all levels, from interested onlooker to the more serious amateur and will almost certainly hook the former into a deeper level of interest in the subject. The naration was a little short on the heavy science, instead relying on the adventure, as the title suggests, but this worked equaly well for myself, having a relatively in depth knowledge of astronomy and cosmology, and other members of my family whom have virtualy none.
Highly recomended; this may well be the title that finally convinces me to get a Blu-Ray player!
Highly recomended; this may well be the title that finally convinces me to get a Blu-Ray player!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Reviewing the Bluray not the DVD
After seeing this program in HD on National Geographic Channel I looked forward to adding it to my Bluray collection. Once I received it however, I found it had a few problems, which you should bear in mind if thinking of purchasing:
1) It does not include both UK and US narrations, as advertised. It only has the Alec Baldwin narration from the US version, and frankly as well as having an irritating voice, I can't listen to Alec Baldwin narrating and enjoy myself. Just the knowledge of what a loathsome moron he is in real life is enough to spoil the illusion. Pertwee on the other hand is much better.
2) The picture is not as sharp as when I saw it on the National Geographic Channel. I watched the Bluray and thought it didn't look quite right. So compared it to the one I recorded on PVR (Foxtel IQ). It would appear that the Bluray is taken from a lesser copy of the HD television broadcast, not the original digital source. This is pretty much confirmed by point 3...
3) As it is a shoddy duplicate sourced from the US TV program it actually has commercial breaks that weren't in the original broadcast. Scenes and music that flow smoothly in the original are abruptly chopped by short fade-ins/fade-outs indicating where the ad breaks are in the US version.
I don't know why this wasn't simply transferred from the digital source material, because if it was I'd buy it again. As it is I regret purchasing this sub-standard crap, which will now sit unwatched gathering dust on the shelf.
After seeing this program in HD on National Geographic Channel I looked forward to adding it to my Bluray collection. Once I received it however, I found it had a few problems, which you should bear in mind if thinking of purchasing:
1) It does not include both UK and US narrations, as advertised. It only has the Alec Baldwin narration from the US version, and frankly as well as having an irritating voice, I can't listen to Alec Baldwin narrating and enjoy myself. Just the knowledge of what a loathsome moron he is in real life is enough to spoil the illusion. Pertwee on the other hand is much better.
2) The picture is not as sharp as when I saw it on the National Geographic Channel. I watched the Bluray and thought it didn't look quite right. So compared it to the one I recorded on PVR (Foxtel IQ). It would appear that the Bluray is taken from a lesser copy of the HD television broadcast, not the original digital source. This is pretty much confirmed by point 3...
3) As it is a shoddy duplicate sourced from the US TV program it actually has commercial breaks that weren't in the original broadcast. Scenes and music that flow smoothly in the original are abruptly chopped by short fade-ins/fade-outs indicating where the ad breaks are in the US version.
I don't know why this wasn't simply transferred from the digital source material, because if it was I'd buy it again. As it is I regret purchasing this sub-standard crap, which will now sit unwatched gathering dust on the shelf.
Format:DVD
The best I've seen in AGES!!!! Too bad I didn't find this in BLU RAY!!!! BUT Incredible!!!
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