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Space Station/Mission to Mir Imax [Blu-ray]

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Space Station/Mission to Mir Imax [Blu-ray] The pictures in space are absolutely amazing. Strongly recommend this Blu-Ray to anyone who has an interest in the space program. My husband worked at Boeing during the Saturn V program, including making flight parts for the original Lunar Rover. We follow the space program with a keen interest, and found this DVD to be most informative and entertaining.

IMAX Spacestation/Mission to Mir in an excellent Blu Ray with breath taking IMAX photography! It is a definite MUST for any collector as I myself own almost 15 IMAX Blu Ray high definition videos! In addition to Spacestation/Mission to Mir, I also bought IMAX Blue Planet/The Dream is Alive which is another must for your Blu Ray library! I've bought every one of my Blu Ray movies on Amazon and they are the cheapest and the best by far - way better than Wal Mart!

Beautiful orbital shots and the cinematography, for the most part, was excellent. As a documentary, it did not really leave one with a sense of wonder. A shame that the NASA PR types had their hands in it.

Everytime i have friends at the house I show them this great documentary. Everyone walks out of my theater kind of quiet and thougthfull. Most of us dont know what the NASA is doing they having a ball and lots of fun up there. To see the space walks and the way the space station was build its just mind blowing. The film is not boring for a second quality is outstanding even with a projector with a 200 inch screen the quality is still just like a lcd tv. Love it everyone does a must see.

space station take me a NASA FL IMAX . Very special for kids learn more about "man in space".

Great images of astronauts in space, reviewing their day to day, tasks and responsibilities. This film gives us the opportunity to see what it is like to live in those conditions, which are not easy!

I recently upgraded my home entertainment system, and part of that involved the addition of a blu-ray player and a larger high-definition display.

I've had several of the IMax movies for a number of years. On a traditional picture-tube TV (even a very, very high-quality one) I'm sure you'd never notice the difference between the BD and the DVD versions of this.

When I upgraded, I discovered that some of my films on DVD were "non-anamorphic" transfers, and some were 4:3 "full screen" transfers... which are nice enough on the old display, but totally unacceptable when dealing with 1080p displays.

Interestingly, most movies (if provided in "anamorphic widescreen" format) on DVD look perfectly acceptable... I can't really tell the difference between a DVD and BD in most cases. Definitely not worth "updating" to BD for all of those... though I suspect I'll never buy another DVD again if there's a BD available.

But some films just DEMAND the high-definition experience. The "Lord of the Rings" movies (once they finally have a BD version of the extended cuts... not out yet, mind you) are among those. And almost EVERY "Imax" movie does.

Unlike with most DVDs-to-BD comparisons, the difference between BD and DVD video on these is very, very apparent, and the picture quality of the BD transfers is just STUNNING. I'm sure that many other movies share this same "level of detail" quality... but the majority don't, so DVD is perfectly fine for most. But here... it makes a huge difference.

If you have the chance to update to BD for ANY Imax film - do it. It's worth the money... it's like a whole new experience.