Product Details

• Actors: Planet Earth, Living Landscapes HD
• Directors: Michael Heumann
• Format: Widescreen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: HDenvironments
• DVD Release Date: January 8, 2008
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00113XDEA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,588 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, September 5, 2008

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William C Foley "Billy" (Madison, Wi, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Living Landscapes HD Hawaii [Blu-ray] (DVD)

The picture is amazing and truly brings you to Hawaii's beauty. The TV screen turns into an amazing moving picture frame.

The only thing that bothered me was the advertising on the screen. Throughout the entire disc, a message reads the company's web site in the lower right hand corner in white text. It seems a little absurd that even after you have paid this money to the company; they still feel the need to advertise to you.

Other than that, the disc was put together nicely. And after time, you may stop noticing the ad, I hope.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Experience, February 17, 2010

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Susan M. Campbell "former movie watcher" (Sebastopol, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living Landscapes HD Hawaii [Blu-ray] (DVD)

I have been choosing to watch these beautiful HDEnvironments DVDs instead of watch TV or movies. They are so uplifting and absolutely thrilling. I have been watching Hawaii, and even though I have been to these islands many times, I am seeing things I never saw or could have seen. I keep thinking "How did they get that shot?" And you don't need a high definition TV set to get amazingly realistic video. It's like being there!

Living Landscapes HD Hawaii [Blu-ray]

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice eye candy, but ultimately, unfulfilling, July 10, 2009

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buru buru piggu (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living Landscapes HD Hawaii [Blu-ray] (DVD)

If you are looking for a documentary or something educational, this is not it. Living Landscapes Hawaii is an hour of footage accompanied by music. And nothing else. There is no narration, no menu, and no special features.

It's really more of a fancy screen saver than anything else. As such, it is hard to recommend, unless you are specifically looking for something like this for, say, demo'ing your TV. If you didn't tell me that this was Hawaii, I would've had a hard time identifying which tropical locale it was. It's missing that Hawaiian flair. The palm trees and surf pounding against rocks could be anywhere. No shots of volcanoes, pahoehoe, plumerias (lei flowers), pineapples, and many of the things that most people associate with Hawaii.

The most obvious music choice for a DVD of Hawaii would be some Hawaiian music. But instead it's all piano music with some ambient/New Age-y sounding pieces, along with chirping birds in the background of most scenes. Overall, it's very relaxing and pleasant, like a lullaby or Enya - The Celts, but not at all Hawaiian.

In keeping with the relaxing mood, all the shots are gentle pans or slow zooms, with dissolves in between. I enjoyed the closeups of ginger flowers, orchids, lilies, and other plants the most. I would've liked at least to have the names of the flowers and animals to be written in small letter at the bottom of the screen just so I know what I'm seeing, or where the scene was shot... Not that there are a lot of animals to see. I remember only seeing 1 anole lizard, a bee, and several shots of a bird.

The beginning starts with pounding surf and the end goes back to surf, with an especially boring last 5 minutes of slow-mo waves.

Lastly, a semi-transparent URL for the company is permanently glued to the lower left corner. It is distracting and unnecessary.

Overall, it's hard to recommend this disc. It's certainly not something I'd watch again from end to end, or have as background music while I work or do chores. It's pretty hard to justify that amount of energy consumption just to listen to music from my TV when an mp3 player accomplishes the same task with much less wasted electricity.