Customer Reviews

Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava

5 star:		(56)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Length:: 1:12 Mins

This is a DVD containing 5 short videos, each about 30 minutes long. They are closeups of a two fireplaces (classic and modern), a campfire, a saltwater aquarium, and a lava lamp. The fire and fishtank videos are excellent, in sharp focus and with good, realistic sound quality. There are many active fish in the aquarium, plus some coral and a shrimp. While the DVD is standard def (480i), everything looks pretty good on an HDTV with a quality upconverter in the TV or DVD player. If you want a DVD with fireplaces and an aquarium, this is a good choice.

In comparison to the "Fun View TV v. 1", the fireplaces are similar, and perhaps a little better on this disc. "Fun View" only has one fireplace, equivalent to the "classic" on this disc, and the video of it is only 2 1/2 minutes long. "Fun View" has a single goldfish against a white background instead of an aquarium, and has goofy sound effects instead of the aquarium's realistic pump and filter noises. Both discs have a lava lamp. (I'd have preferred a freshwater aquarium.) This disc is a clear winner over "Fun View" in the "fireplaces and fish" department.

However, "Fun View" does have a lot more variety of TV "screensavers". Most of them are literally computer-style screensavers (zooming starfield, snowscape, etc.), and are literally computer-generated. Many are a static image with a computer-generated foreground (for example, the snowscape is a picture of some snow-covered trees, with computer-generated snowflakes falling in front of the picture). They're well-done, but do look a little fake. There are a couple of oddballs, such as the video of the running microwave. Plus there are seasonal ones, such as a jack-o-lantern with lightning in the background. They might be useful to play as a sort of animated decoration for a party. For variety at the expense of quality, "Fun View" is a reasonable choice.

Since neither is terribly expensive, a third option is to simply get both.

This really is head and shoulders above any other Fireplace DVD out there and for the price unbeatable. It even has an aquarium and a great lava lamp that is full screen, not animated and not a filmed round lava lamp, I wonder how they did that? I can't believe that Target, Walmart, costco and all the mass merchants are not selling a million of these. I was looking for one of these in stores before I came to amazon to get it, in the future I am going to save the gas and just come back.

Especially to get a bunch of these as Christmas gifts!

This is the second fireplace DVD we've purchased. The first was a disappointing thing with horrid music that you couldn't turn off, of which there was no mention on the label. We wanted to have a "crackling" fire, and that's what we got with this Vjworld DVD. We played it during our family Christmas parties, as we do not have a fireplace in our great room. People said they felt warmer when it was on - I thought it was only in my head, so this was confirmation for me that I wasn't going crazy. The fire is mesmerizing, as well as gorgeous and calming. I noticed people just staring into it as the festivities were going on, and several of them asked where we bought it. The aquarium is also beautiful and calming; I'm sure we'll get more use out of it in the warmer months. We watched for quite a while, trying to see where the loop started over, and never did see a repeat.
We enjoy the fire in the evenings while we read - so cozy - all it lacks is the wonderful smell of a wood fire (got a wood-wick candle for this). I wasn't sure that we'd ever use the lava lamp - we are a little past our "groovy" stage, but our baby granddaughter just loved it! Highly recommended.

The video footage is exactly what I want, but the quality is horrible. It's sad because I love the footage, the other ones do not have all three options (usually just one), they are not as realistically shot (they look like Discovery Channel, not like a fish tank), but the quality of the others is superior.

The Lava Lamp is so bad on my 52" TV that it almost looks like it was made for a 14 inch computer monitor and then stretched (you can easily see the "pixelation").

If you have a small TV, then the video quality is probably ok; and maybe get it anyway since there is no competition for the footage... but keep your eye out on an HD version because I sure am!

Please, please make an HD version of this!

This DVD offers a choice of three different fireplace scenes from which to choose. The fire is very life-like and the sound effects of the fire crackling and popping make it very realistic. The campfire even has the sound of the crickets and tree frogs in the backgound. The fish tank also has the sound of the water pump in the background. The fire burns with a great picture of the flames and logs. If you are looking for a fire place DVD this one offers a varity of choices and great sound effects to go with each one.

This is a great item. Great conversation piece. It plays continously so you don't have to keep pressing "play" when it ends.

I thought this was a great DVD. It's a DVD you have on and just look at now and then ... nothing to stare at. My guests enjoyed is as well, listening the crackling wood while Christmas music played on the CD player.

I loooove this DVD. A few of my friends have seen it and have also purchased it. Great to read a book by. Four nice fireplaces, an aquarium, and a lava lamp. Very cool!

I did recieve this DVD very fast and the packaging was great. On the other hand, the quality is poor, the fireplaces flames are cut off so you can't see the entire fire (and it's not because my aspect ratio is wrong), the fish tank is very lame and you can see this very dirty filter right in the middle of the fishtank, and the lava.. I'm not real sure why that's even on there. You get a bright yellow screen with a few lava circles moving around. Overall, I wouldn't purchase this DVD if I were you! I can say that the sound effects on the fireplace are the only thing that is half way decent.