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Summary: One of BBC 's Greatest Projects
Review: Before there was "Life of Mammals", Sir David Attenborough made "The Living Planet". This DVD covers every type of habitate on earth and intigrates humans as part of the enviroment in this four DVD set. Although I personally like "Life on Earth" better, I place "The Living Planet" as second in a complete wildlife production. Other works to look for are; Life of Plants, Life of Mammals and Life of Birds.
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Summary: Great stuff but embarrasing picture quality
Review: Great quality series as the majority of BBC's but they did not do any effort to make a new rank cintell trasfer of the material from the negatives. The quality of the picture reminds me an ugly 16mm footage transferred to U-Matic, the noise is umbeareable. Non talking about the poor quality of the sound and the music made with synthetizers from the early seventies.
Same price as prime new series like The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, Seas of Life, not worth the price.
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Summary: The Living Planet
Review: I took college class that required to watch video, Living Planet. My very very disapointment with it. It says cc (closed captioning) which stands for deaf viewers. I watched those DVD and guess what? Those DVD(s) do not display any closed captioning. I am deaf. It angers me very much. I feel like being betrayed by its said feature on the box.
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: If made with today's technology this series would rank as the best nature series ever produced. Despite its age-related flaws (Video Quality, Soundtrack, Chopping Block), this DVD series still rates the full 5 stars. It features a younger, spryer David Attenborough exploring a planet teeming with life. Attenborough is the ultimate ecology teacher - he guides the viewer through the various biomes of the earth, picking out a variety of amazing phenomena to show us, and he lets us soak in the beauty of each realm. Rather than focusing on birds or mammals, we learn about the whole spectrum of the natural world, from fish to fungi, insects to people. The information is always interesting, and presented in modest amounts - it never becomes a bore. Buy this if you enjoyed these DVDs:
Life of Mammals
Blue Planet
Africa: The Serengeti
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: If made with today's technology this series would rank as the best nature series ever produced. Despite its age-related flaws (Video Quality, Soundtrack, Chopping Block), this DVD series still rates the full 5 stars. It features a younger, spryer David Attenborough exploring a planet teeming with life. Attenborough is the ultimate ecology teacher - he guides the viewer through the various biomes of the earth, picking out a variety of amazing phenomena to show us, and he lets us soak in the beauty of each realm. Rather than focusing on birds or mammals, we learn about the whole spectrum of the natural world, from fish to fungi, insects to people. The information is always interesting, and presented in modest amounts - it never becomes a bore. Buy this if you enjoyed these DVDs:
Life of Mammals
Blue Planet
Africa: The Serengeti
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
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Summary: Important things to know before buying:
Review: If you were born after 1975 and/or have grown accustomed to today's superior visual technologies, then you will be shocked by the video quality of this DVD. The picture is dim, grainy and reminded me of watching a filmstrip in middle school. The picture quality is absolutely awful when compared with "Life of Mammals," "Blue Planet," "Africa: The Serengeti," and "Alaska: Spirit of the Wild." [Incidentally, those are the four best nature documentaries available on DVD.]
And if you are familiar with terrific musical scores accompanying nature films, then you will not be impressed when listening to the laughable synthesizer soundtrack to this series. Also, some reviewers have noted that the Region 1 version of this set has been edited and shortened. I have not seen the original series, but several episodes end abruptly and seem to have been chopped down in the editing room. Despite these three major age-related flaws (Video Quality, Soundtrack, Chopping Block), this DVD series still rates the full 5 stars. It features a younger, spryer David Attenborough exploring a planet teeming with life. Attenborough is the ultimate ecology teacher - he guides the viewer through the various biomes of the earth, picking out a variety of amazing phenomena to show us, and he lets us soak in the beauty of each realm. Rather than focusing on birds or mammals, we learn about the whole spectrum of the natural world, from insects to people. The information is always interesting, and presented in modest amounts - it never becomes a bore. If this series could somehow be remade, shot-for-shot, with modern equipment and a better soundtrack, it would rank as the nature film to end all nature films.
All of David Attenborough's work should make it to the DVD format (and hopefully efforts can be made to improve the video quality).
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Summary: The content is great!!
Review: The content of this DVD is GREAT. This is the complete review of all living places on earth. Unfortunatelly, the quality of picture is like VHS, not so clean as DVD should like. That's why I give 4 stars.
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Summary: The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
Review: The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth DVD ~ David Attenborough was and is an amazing show with the greatest naturalist of all time. Attenborough is so convincing and seems to have so much fun that this documentary movie is hypnotic and spellbounding.
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Summary: Boo Hiss Time/Warner
Review: The Living Planet Series by David Attenborough is a milestone, a benchmark in the production of nature education. What he has done is a quantum leap beyond anything else in the "nature show" category. The depth, breadth and brilliance of this series is unparralled. Unfortunately, TimeWarner got their grubby hands on it. They decided that to reorder and edit the shows so that they fit with the graphics they have chosen for the packaging. I'm not kidding! It is like they put a mustache on the Mona Lisa. Boo Hiss TimeWarner.
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Summary: Boo Hiss Time/Warner
Review: The Living Planet Series by David Attenborough is a milestone, a benchmark in the production of nature education. What he has done is a quantum leap beyond anything else in the "nature show" category. The depth, breadth and brilliance of this series is unparralled. Unfortunately, TimeWarner got their grubby hands on it. They decided that to reorder and edit the shows so that they fit with the graphics they have chosen for the packaging. I'm not kidding! It is like they put a mustache on the Mona Lisa. Boo Hiss TimeWarner.
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