29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
What a blurry mess......, Jun 16 2009
By Bee - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Atmospheres: Earth Air and Water [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
First off, I NEVER write reviews, but felt I needed to in this case. This blu-ray is so bad I literally took a look at the disc to make sure I wasn't sent the DVD version. The content I rate 3 stars given my family enjoyed it (including my 3 year old) but I have DVDs that look better upconverted than this film. When the best part of the HD experience is the dolby digital track (which is standard on DVDs) you know it's a stinker. The show looks so compressed and blurry its embarrassing to be considered hi-def. It wasn't even worth the $10 I paid for it during high definition week. Which I'm now officially convinced was 'clean out the garage and have a hi-def sale' week.
Since it looks like a dvd, and sounds like a DVD....I'm going to say you are getting a DVD in blu-ray packaging. If anyone is wondering, I have over 150 blu-rays, and I'm going to say this is the worst one I own.
The production value is horrible, at about the 30 minute mark, it pauses for about 3 seconds, I was thinking....is it over? Maybe it IS a dvd and I'm experiencing a layer change? It then goes into the next segment. It's all a little cheesy but relaxing. They could have done so much more with it though.
Bottom-line, save your money or buy the DVD version.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor picture quality, July 9 2009
By Joan L. Schluter - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Atmospheres: Earth Air and Water [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Bought from Amazon for about $10.00 and it is worth about $5.00. Based on the reputation of National Geographic I thought the image would be outstanding, I was wrong. I don't think it even qualifies as a good SD upconvert.
Planet Earth it is not!
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disaster, July 19 2009
By Krzysztof Kowalski "topjes" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Atmospheres: Earth Air and Water [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
I had a grat expectations abut this title... But... The video is definitely not HD - it's blurry and SD (upconverted).
The "plot" is quite boring, nothing special and breath-taking. This movie has nothing in common with "Planet Earth" or "Earth". Waste of time and money.