#Planet earth and blue planet dvd full#
You’ll be trying to listen to Attenbobough talk about something while both the music and captured sound are at full volume. Another annoyance is the sound mix, which can overpower the narrative at times. This would not be as noticeable if you were watching one episode a week (as it was first broadcast), but it’s annoying to see the repetition when watching episodes back-to-back on DVD. My biggest gripe is that they repeat some of the same material over and over again.
#Planet earth and blue planet dvd series#
Audio is Dolby Digital Stereo and sounds great.Īs amazing as the series is, there are a few problems. The Blue Planet is screaming to be viewed in HD… and hopefully one day it will be available that way. But after having seen the BBC’s other epic documentary series, Planet Earth on Blu-Ray, there’s really no other option. The picture quality on these standard DVDs is mostly good, occasional spoiled when compression artifacts pop up. No alien creature in any sci-fi film can compare with the truly alien life forms that exist for real in our oceans. Other mesmerizing scenes follow the migration of Blue Whales, explore the bizarre creatures of the deep, and reveal more than one marine species that had never been seen before. The raw savagery of an Orca Whale killing a seal is all at once horrifying, captivating, and something you will never forget. I’ve watched my share of National Geographic shows and Animal Planet specials, but some of the segments they have in The Blue Planet are unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.
There’s a lot to love about the series, but the thing that fascinated me most was just how unprecedented the footage is. Five years in the making, The Blue Planet won multiple Emmy awards for its musical score and stunning cinematography. Narrated by the incomparable David Attenborough, this documentary explores all aspects of marine life over the course of eight episodes on four DVDs… “Ocean World,” “Frozen Seas,” “Open Ocean,” “The Deep,” “Seasonal Seas,” “Coral Seas,” “Tidal Seas,” and “Coasts.” There’s also a fifth DVD with four bonus featurettes that loosely tie into the series. This was made abundantly clear when I watched BBC’s The Blue Planet: Seas of Life DVD Collector’s Set. The measly 40-feet we got to dive in was a tiny sampling of the fascinating world that occupies 3/4 of the earth’s surface. It was a lot of fun, we learned a loads, and both of us came to the same conclusion at the end of the week: “There’s a lot of freaky stuff down there.” This was an epic understatement. The producers were helped by marine scientists all over the world with state-of-the-art equipment.Years ago when I was lucky enough to be vacationing in Maui, a friend and I got tired of laying on the beach and decided to take SCUBA diving lessons.
Besides witnessing some animal behaviors for the first time, the crew also observed some that were new to science. The fact that most of the ocean environment remains a mystery presented the production team with many challenges.
The series took almost five years to make, involving nearly 200 filming locations. See it again, like never before as this truly is one amazing series of DVDs on the greatest unknown on this planet, our ocean.
And in this latest all new special edition it includes an added 5th disc of bonus programming not included in the original DVD release for a total of 390+ minutes, 6.5+ hours, of programming. Here is the breakdown of the original 4 discs: 1) Ocean World & Frozen Seas 2) Open Ocean & The Deep 3) Seasonal Seas & Coral Seas and 4) Tidal Seas & Coasts. The winner of two Emmy Awards, The Blue Planet: Seas of Life is the definitive exploration of the marine world, chronicling the mysteries of the deep in ways never before imagined. Before creating the monumental Planet Earth, producer Alastair Fothergill and his team from the BBC put together one of the most breathtaking explorations of the ocean ever assembled, The Blue Planet: Seas of Life.
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