Customer Reviews

Living Landscapes: The World's Most Beautiful Places [HD DVD]

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

Very very pretty and relaxing. Good to just chill out and relax or as a background to the party or a dinner. Just like looking out the window and with some soft classical type music playing in background.
This one has a bit of everything, and they are all good. There is also full hour version for each envinroment if you find one that you like in particular.
I dunno what the other reviewer is smoking, but i found the quality to be excellent both video and sound wise.

Filmed in 1080i high definition with 5.1 surround sound, and available in both DVD and HD-DVD format, Living Landscapes The World's Most Beautiful Places earns its title with a glorious visual and audio experience. The cinematography does not disrupt the soothing images and sounds of nature with verbal narration; birds, ocean waves, and calm background music accompanies the breathtakingly beautiful display. A loop feature allows one to play the DVD for pleasant background effect as if hanging an ever-changing picture. Enthusiastically recommended for armchair travelers, and anyone who wants to play a DVD solely to relax and enjoy the wonders of natural creation. 75 minutes, color.

There's about 5 to 10 minutes visit in each area. It's similar to camping out in these areas with the nature sounds coming through. The music is monotonous. I would've liked to seen a little bit of narration here & there with the music in the background during the narration. If you want to relax & see Landscapes from different parts of the World, this is the way to do it.

this is so very beautiful and peaceful - a great introduction to HD DVD - picture quality is excellent - sound is very good - I like "new age" instrumental music and these selections are very good - stress just melts away - some are naturally better than others, but they are all great - good overview of the series - very highly recommended - I am ordering the entire series

I love watching HD anything; but for the price this was uninteresting and alot of the video was not that great of quality. This might be okay in a Doctor's waiting room or something but not to simply view at home. There were SOME good shots but none worth the price of this. I would DEFINATELY buy Planet Earth instead. I regret my purchase.

This HD-DVD is great to show off your system to your friends. It is composed of 9 regional views each about 10 minutes each. Each view spans various very clear, almost 3D images of the region with music in the background. No plot, no story, just restful music and scenes.

Although HD-DVD seems to only approach 90% of the resolution that I have experienced with over-the-air HD, this disc reaches the best resolution that I have experienced from the HD-DVD format.

Again, a great HD-DVD to show-off your system, or to relax to, nothing more, nothing less.

This is an excellent soothing and relaxing DVD. If you are a working and commuting individual, then you need sleep and rest. Medications are good, but Nature is the best medicine without any bad side effects or hangovers to experience afterwards. This DVD's natural sound of birds and ocean waves and cinematography is well balanced. You can hear the ocean waves and sea birds, while calm background music is playing. It has the new loop effect, so you can put it in your TV/DVD disk drive and at the end of the series, then the Pacific coast will continue to play until you decide to stop it. It takes your imagination (as if you were looking out of a picture window) and look into the face of nature. So save yourself some money and skip the Airport TSA lines, baggage checks, plane tickets and relax in your favorite armchair with a cold drink and watch Mother Nature put you to sleep in the safe environment of your home. Let the RICH keep their oil, along with its high prices. I await the future DVDs. Please add squirrels and sandpipers, as animals. Thank you for sharing your relaxation ministry with the world, at such a time as this.

Photography 5 star, music terrible, includes a child plinkining away on a piano at a pitch that actually starts to irritate after a few minutes, also these people think so highly of themselves that they ruin the images by keeping their logo on most of the time. Not even NG. has ever done that. Overtall rating 0 stars, I've thrown my copy in the garbage where I personally think it belongs.

This DVD was the first DVD I bought. It is a great "sample" of the footage from Costa Rica, Bali, Hawaii, the Redwoods, the Rainforest, etc.

And while this DVD is beautiful it is meant to just tantalize you and give you a glimpse of what the full hour DVDs are like. You'll absolutely love the full hour long DVD's.

So in other words, use "Beautiful Places" to find what resonates with you, then if you love the Costa Rica footage you'll definately want the entire Costa Rica DVD.

I've ordered a couple of these DVD's and given them to friends, then they can decide which full length ones to buy (which they usually do).

Last night I watched the DVD, Worlds Most Beautiful Places, I just simply don't know what to write. Gosh it made me wish for a big screen in my garden bathroom so I could watch it while I relaxed in a tub of bubbles. While writing this I now realize I can bring my wide screen laptop in there and watch it hmmmmmmmm I may do just that this week, it is so relaxing, peaceful and beautiful. The images and sounds really seem to bring me there.....mmmmmmmmmmmm
Take the time to enjoy the wonders of our earth.