Product Details

• Actors: Planet Earth
• Directors: Michael Heumann
• Format: Digital Sound, Dolby, Full Screen, Surround Sound
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: HDenvironments.com
• DVD Release Date: April 25, 2007
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PTYK7U
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #39,552 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Rejoice with the morning birds at Maui's Emerald Pool. Experience the magic rays of sunrise peaking through golden clouds from the rim of Haleakala Crater. Watch the Earth itself being formed as fresh lava flows into the sea. Feel warm ocean spray leap into rainbows, as seawater roars from hidden blowholes. Hawaii's most delightful beaches reveal multi-hued sands of red, black and green, as the warm ocean washes over your feet.

The Living Landscapes DVD Collection is a series of High Definition programs designed to create sensory-immersive experiences of the world's most beautiful natural environments. These mesmerizing programs use state of the art High Definition video to bring the world's most beautiful natural environments to your home theatre or computer. Whether you choose to transform your living room or home theatre environment into a tropical paradise, or simply want to replace the static pictures on your wall or desktop with more dynamic and lifelike imagery, the Living Landscapes Video Collection will forever change your experience of television.

BLU-RAY FORMAT.

Standard Definition and WMV HD also available

This disc plays on Blu-ray Disc compatible players. Resolution - [1080i]. Aspect Ratio - [16:9]. Immediate play, no menu or special features. Please note that this disc will not currently play on the following four players: Panasonic DMP-BD10 Blu-ray Player, Pioneer BDP-HD1 Blu-ray Player, Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player and LG BH100 Hybrid Blu-ray/HD-DVD Player. A firmware upgrade is expected from Sony in the near future for the Sony BDP-S1 to enable compatibility with most BD-R/RE discs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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:

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

By	buru buru piggu (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Scenery plus nothing equals not much., October 27, 2008

By	Paul Bailey "Blu Ray reviewer" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This DVD has nice photography, but not much else. It does not tell you which Island you are seeing, or where you might be on that Island. There is no narration. I was very disapointed with the movie, and if I had to choose again, I would choose not to purchase this movie.

I love Hawaii, but I did not love this movie. It could have been so much more if only they had taken the time to take viewers through a virtual tour of the Islands. But they didn't. Don't waste your money on this movie.