Product Details

• Actors: Aquaria
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: DVD International
• DVD Release Date: November 2, 1999
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JYX5
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #98,853 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Aquaria" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Saltwater aquariums are breathtakingly beautiful, but onerous to maintain. The exception is The Classic Aquarium DVD--a "no-care" aquarium with white sand, exquisite coral formations, large barnacle clusters, and a host of colorful tropical fish. View the full aquarium with the 40-minute full-tank option or follow the paths of individual fish in the eight-minute close-up segment. Tranquility and beauty reign in either, and each sequence offers a crystal-clear picture and a repeat function for continuous play. Audio choices include gentle beach surf, authentic aquarium bubbling, and New Age relaxation and meditation musical tracks in both DTS and Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. An on-screen "fishography" provides aquarium enthusiasts with detailed information about the natural habitat, diet, temperament, and care of 12 individual species of fish. DVD-ROM extras include screensavers and a fish calendar. Just think of this as tranquility through television. --Tami Horiuchi

From the Back Cover

Five Totally Different Aquaria

Over 60 species of fish and sealife, "fishography" of each species, screensavers from each tank, full-function fish calendar, four separate audio tracks, over 15 hours of unique programming, all tanks and sequences can be repeated forever for "click and forget" viewing, plays on all DVD video players and computers equipped with DVD drives, and Aquaria can be viewed in 3 different aspect ratios.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

83 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Dream Come True, November 3, 1999

By	mouseeneer "mouseeneer" (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This DVD is a dream come true for me. Ever since the introduction of the DVD medium, I have been wishing that someone should release a DVD with colorful fishes of all kind swimming back and forth just like a real aquarium. I had an aquarium years ago and it was a time-consuming hobby. The time to change the water and clean the aquarium were too messy and too expansive. After half year, I discontinued the hobby but until now still missed watching those beautiful fishes.

Finally, this is the DVD I have been wishing for in the past two years. It allows continuous play on your monitor or TV with two choices of viewing options (close-up or full view of the aquarium) and four choices of background sound (two music tracks, one sea surf sound, and one bubbling water sound.) My prefer choices are the close-up view (the fishes are larger) and the bubbling water sound (more natural sounding). You can program the aquarium to play continuously and effortlessly with this DVD.

The video quality on this DVD is top notch and crystal clear in the close-up view ( * * * * *.) The fishes are a bit small in the full view (* * *.) I whole-heartedly recommend this DVD to all aquarium watchers and lovers that don't want the mess of changing and cleaning water. The water in this DVD remains crystal clear and clean forever. One last benefit of this DVD: the price is hard to beat considering all the time saved and trouble-free enjoyment of a realistic aquarium right on your monitor!

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My new fish tank....., August 29, 2002

By	Ralph Goodson (Whiteleaf, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aquaria - The Exotic Aquarium (DVD)

Earlier this year I saved my pennies and bought a 50" plasma screen. It's great for home cinema but when I'm entertaining guests and not watching the screen, it's a large black hole on the wall of my living room, until now that is.

This DVD is the perfect solution. Instead of being faced with a boring featureless black void, my guests can now gaze at my fabulous collection of marine fish. The bonus is, I never have to clean the tank or feed the fish! I bought the Coral Tank version but I assume they are all variations on a theme and would perform more or less the same function.

I Take on board what other viewers have said about the size of the fish on a smaller screen, but on the plasma screen, the proportions are perfect and I think, very realistic.

The DVD also has some extra features for your PC including a fishy screen-saver, which gives a slideshow of each of the inhabitants of the tank. It also has printable high-quality photos in PDF format and a copy of Acrobat Viewer if you do not already have it.

I love it and I intend to buy the other versions!

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BUY THIS ITEM - LISTEN TO THE REVIEWS!, September 16, 2002

By	"pescalito" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aquaria - The Coral Reef Aquarium (DVD)

Beleive me, I'm being generous giving them a whole star - if I could figuire out how to give them less than that I would! I should have listened to the other disatisfied customers. The video quality is terrible (no- it's not my Sony Wega 27" TV). It just looked liked someone went to the local Marine Aquarium, paid their [$$$] entrance fee and set a tripod in front of the tank. The lighting is terrible, the music is [poor]. Do I sound upset? You bet I am! I wish I had been smart enough to rent a camcoder and call myself a movie maker! I am willing to venture all the other Aquaria volumes in this series are equally as [poor]. Why else would the price fall from close to [$$$] to under [$$$] in only about a year?

My advice, save your money and just buy a real fishtank!