Product Details

• Actors: NatureWindow.TV
• Directors: Michael Heumann
• Format: AC-3, Color, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Digital Environments
• DVD Release Date: January 13, 2009
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001LM64EW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,478 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Allegro Media Group Release Date: 04/14/2009 Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coasting Along, January 19, 2009

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Garry McGonigle "GMc" (Ottawa, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Pacific Coast [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Those of us who enjoyed the 2 minute "snippets" of HD Environments should rejoice at this BD. Outstanding photography of various Pacific beaches from Big Sur going north to Washington. If your heart belongs to the Ocean, you will be perfectly happy to sit through the whole presentation more than once.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful For Enjoying The Ocean When You Can't Be There, March 19, 2010

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This review is from: Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Pacific Coast [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

You have a choice whether to have music along with the nature sounds or just the nature sounds. Both were well done in my opinion.

As the DVD started, there was a pleasant, comforting sound of seagulls while ocean waves crashed onto the shore. The scene occasionally changed, naturally, fading in and out without distracting you from your thoughts. There's a soft ocean sound, but if you want something more intense, all you have to do is turn up the volume and you will be able to drown out all of the unwanted noises and create your own environment.

I'm using it for background while I read and it is very much like having a beach cottage where you just go out on the patio and read, study, or just relax. Instant vacation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be a whole lot better, February 9, 2011

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K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Pacific Coast [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I love these coastlines, having surfed many of them with great joy a few decades back and toured them often since, both on foot and by car. Actually, I'd enjoy just a basic video of the entire Highway One drive, from Obispo all the way up. So I'm disposed to liking any and all depictions of the West Coast, and there are plenty of fine scenes on this one hour long blu-ray. I had quite a few blissful moments watching the waves curl and unload as the sun set, and it both reminded me how literally awesome the Pacific Coast is, and also how laughable it is to watch it on tv compared to actually being there. Not even 10% of the experience, truly. Even in hi-def.

Which, frankly, this really isn't. It's a waste of a blu-ray, in fact. The definition was often grainy and rarely near the crispness and depth one would expect from a nature BD. There are some very clean moments, but not once was it close to the intense reality blu-ray can achieve. It looks quite semi-professional and obviously is, especially the music, pure cheese at some points and barely tolerable at others. I dig good New Age chill out vibes, dude, but this ain't that. Sorry to harsh the mellow, just being honest. Turn off the tunes and stick to the live audio track---good thing that the option is there.

But sigh once again, as there's a little too much wind noise on the mics, and it's also not really super hi-def, as with the picture. Really? This is the best recording you could get? It's definitely possible to get much cleaner takes than this. So why do we get so much impurity? Maybe it's best to just add some fine classical music for yourself, perhaps Beethoven's Pastorale or Debussy's La Mer, on your sound system.

The scenes themselves vary from fine Big Sur shots (though they messed up by not getting an epic Sur sunset, among the best in the world), to strangely boring and pointless close-ups of gulls in the tide, with no wider background for minutes. That could be the puddle down my street; we want huge Pacific vistas, and nothing but! And when we get those, the pans are sometimes a little wobbly. Weak. The filmmakers could also have chosen much better light, sunrise or sunset especially, for many of these scenes. That stretch of coast rivals any for light effects, so we deserve more of them. Spend the time and get it right, like the true master of the Pacific Coast, Ansel Adams, who would sit for days in one spot with his camera to get a five second window of sublime light. If you're going to make a blu-ray of one of the world's sweetest places, at least have the artistic awareness to do likewise. O, how I wish Ansel could have made one of these videos! Now that would be truly glorious. Instead,we get this half-done, not-bad not-great melange.

Sorry to be a downer on this disc, because it does have a few fine moments, but that's mostly due to the place, not the makers of this blu-ray. It should be a dvd, as that's the extent of the quality, both visually and sonically, and it could be soooo much more. But, it is what it is, and I wouldn't turn down a free copy.

Yet I wouldn't buy it, either. Surely someone else has done this place and idea better.
Can anybody give us some recommendations on that?