Customer Reviews

View From Space With Heavenly Music [HD DVD]

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I agree with the previous posts that the picture quality is excellent and the music is also very good. The only thing I don't like is that it is only about 10 minutes of footage which repeats, and repeats, and repeats... It is good but I was expecting something a little different with city views, night views, or atleast something recognizable. I haven't figured out where any of the shots are from yet.

Loops the same video at least 4 times (perhaps 10-13 minutes of footage). I saw this footage in a Discover HD documentary about the space station Discovery HD version was stitched together a little bit more nicely and they corrected some of the exposure problems.

This footage suffers from occasional exposure control issues as the brightness of the earth changes rapidly from desert to snow/clouds. The footage is frequently unsteady and the windows need to be cleaned on the station.

The music is a good collection of freely available classical content. Eight sound tracks at about 55 minutes each. I suspect the video is also freely available open source NASA footage. Music quality is good. video clarity is HD quality.

I would have been more satisfied with a price point of about $10 for this content. At nearly $20 the footage length and exposure quality detract from the overall experience significantly.

Absolutely the most stunning picture I have ever seen, and the music is a well recorded added bonus. This is the disc that I will be using to show off my system, and whenever I just want a truly fabulous picture and sound!

Imagery is excellent but repetitious; most scenes are of desert areas and sea. Not much green, no cities, and few recognizable landforms. Music is good, image quality excellent.

I attended a lecture featuring Dr. Larry DeLucas, space shuttle astronaut, as a guest speaker. I purchased A View From Space after Dr. DeLucas used this high definition dvd from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in his presentation. He described the dvd as, "Vividly bringing him back to the awesome emotional aspect of watching the Earth from space."

The scenery and clarity is stunning and has a variety of classical soundtracks to choose from...a great buy.

For a music lover like me this is something highly enjoyable, the views from space are impressive. It would have been a full 5 star if there were no scenes repeting.

A View From Space With Heavenly Music is the only thing I play when I want to show off my HD DVD player. The pictures and music combined enhanced this experience.

The reviews for the Blu-Ray and HD versions had me convinced to give this a try, but I'm sorry I did. The imagery is very impressive, but incoherently edited. It's also all too brief and repetitive. As another negative reviewer notes, there is little an ordinary person with a decent grasp of geography can identify. It would have been very simple to add subtitles to tell you what you're looking at, (subtitles that could be turned off in the set up menu...if there was a set up menu...there isn't!)

The smudges and spots that mar the footage are actually pretty annoying. Especially when you consider that with a little effort they could have been skillfully edited out.

Given that there's 8 hours of "heavenly" classical music, another nice option would have been to allow you to set it up to repeat play using each different soundtrack in sequence. Also, none of the music seems like it was consciously chosen to actually fit the imagery. And needless to say, if you're not a fan of classical music you'll end up putting something else on while you watch.

I got this on sale for $12, but I think $5 would be paying too much.

Looks great and if your into space then so much the better. Never had a problem with it at all. Played it in my Xbox 360 HD drive. Worked great and wowed the family.

Excellent video from space, the big plus is the various classical music tracks you can select.