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Planet Earth: Complete BBC Series [Blu-ray]
starring: David Attenborough

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Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 5051561000010
Format: Widescreen
Label: 2 Entertain Video
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Running Time: 550 minutes
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Sales Rank: 224

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Not only is Planet Earth one of the most jaw-dropping, ambitious, nature documentaries the BBC has ever produced, it’s now taken on another role: as a superb demonstration disc for the potential of HD DVD and Blu-ray.

Spread over a good ten hours, the series charts life and nature in dozens upon dozens of differing locations around the earth. Diligently and warmly narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Planet Earth calmly goes close in on its subject matter when required, and then pulls out some stunning perspective shots that are simply breathtaking. It’s hard to come up with the right superlatives to do the photography on the programme any kind of justice, and that it’s married to such fascinating subject matter is all the better.

And if you think the original broadcast of Planet Earth was something special, or you were gobsmacked by the picture quality on DVD, just wait until you see it in 1080p HD glory. Particularly some of the broader shots here are all but without parallel, and it’s a real reward for those who have invested ahead of the crowd in high definition technology.

Presented over five discs, and matching wonderful content to spot-on visual presentation, Planet Earth is now not just a landmark in nature documentary film making. It’s also a chartermark of quality for just what HD DVD and Blu-ray can offer. A stunning release, in more than one sense. --Jon Foster

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Breathtaking
I wholly agree with the review entitled "Jaw-Dropping". The photography in this series is just staggeringly beautiful, intensely moving. The narration is perfectly paced, restrained, witty, thought-provoking. The variety of coverage is amazing and the experience as a viewer is to be carried along entirely, from being distressed at the fate of the creatures, to awe-struck by their beauty, to fascinated by their individuation and adaptation to their environment.

Forget the quibbles - the picture is awesome and the sound is wonderful. This is a Blu-ray must-buy.

Rating:

- Planet Earth (Buy it)
Don't rent this title, splash the £40 and buy it. It's almost 10 hours of beautifully (patiently) short footage of poor critters that the human race will probably have wiped out in the next decade. I've only seen 3 episodes so far, but the baby bear and the birds that glide over the mountain are awesome, nature and the natural world at its very best.

Rating:

- AWE-INSPIRING
This whole thing is just stunning!

You just have to see these jaw-dropping images to believe them.

It is also a humbling experience for human beings like us. There are a lot of lives goiing on out there without our knowing anything about them.

Hats off to the production team that has conceived and realized this awe-inspiring porject.

Sir David is a great plus as well. His narration convines seriousness with humour that helps us get through each episode and leaves us wanting for more.

Each episode does fall into the recurring predator/prey pattern but it doesn't matter. It is definitely worth the money.

It is one of the best high-def. experience you can every ... Read More:

Rating:

- This series on Blu-Ray is awesome!
Lots of people here arating this box set badly on the grounds that some parts aren't in high-res or not full 1080p. They don't seem to understand that this series was filmed on many many different cameras and was shot in real world environments in many many locations and not in a controlled studio environment. So not all the footage is in full HD or even 720p in some cases. It's as good as you're going to get for some time and besides, it's a great documentary with or without 1080p so stop your whinging.

Rating:

- Blu-ray customers are being short-changed.
A warning: It seems that the BBC has been cheese-paring and, as a result, the disc 5 extra included with the blu-ray version of this excellent series, entitled 'Natural World', is not at all the same as the disc 5 extra included with the standard DVD version of the series. Let me explain: Disc 5 of the blu-ray version, entitled 'Natural World', contains two separate documentaries; one entitled 'Desert Lions', and the second entitled 'Snow Leopards'. These two middling documentaries, also narrated by David Attenborough, although certainly watchable, do seem rather like an add-on, almost to fill space. In my opinion, they fall well short of the outstanding viewing quality of the main series, as shown on the first four discs in this five-disc box ... Read More:

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