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Summary: Great Novelity
Review: I just want to say that the view from Germany must have some sort of player problem because the disc works wonderfully. This is a great disc to show how DVD can "REALLY BE USED" in a way that is just not playing a movie with better video and sound. This title shows how you can use DVD as a educational source. The title has great video, great menus, and great ideas in it. We need more like it. Take my view and the other who gave it a fair shot that if you are a Space or Astronmy buff, you'll like it.
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Summary: Interesting Video Arrangement to Keep Your Mind Occupied
Review: I purchased this DVD principally for the launch footage from the television camera on the first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle. Like the later launches of the Mars Climate Orbiter, Polar Lander and the Stardust from Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral AFS, it was exciting footage, and, it was on DVD! Before MECO and vernier engine shutdown, you can actually make out the condensation (ice) streaming away, bit by bit, from the first stage of the Delta II. I thought this really great resolution because whenever I watch the playbacks of the other aforementioned Delta II launches via PC, the clarity just isn't there! I wish that either this Company or some other Company would put more Delta and Atlas launches on DVD (provided that the launch vehicles had TV cameras on them to begin with). As for the rest of the DVD, it steers through what appears to be in-orbit TV camera viewing of the Martian surface (it could also be compiled stills transformed into a "movie" - I don't know: only JPL knows for sure!) and actual still images plus space art and facts on similar international unmanned missions that goes back to the 1960's. There are two modes for this DVD: Entertainment mode and Interactive mode. You need a PC with a DVD-ROM drive to access the few specifics (which I don't have so I can't comment on that area). If you hanker for high resolution images of Mars from orbit, or, launch footage at a low cost, then this DVD may be of some use to you.
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Summary: Interesting Video Arrangement to Keep Your Mind Occupied
Review: I purchased this DVD principally for the launch footage from the television camera on the first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle. Like the later launches of the Mars Climate Orbiter, Polar Lander and the Stardust from Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral AFS, it was exciting footage, and, it was on DVD! Before MECO and vernier engine shutdown, you can actually make out the condensation (ice) streaming away, bit by bit, from the first stage of the Delta II. I thought this really great resolution because whenever I watch the playbacks of the other aforementioned Delta II launches via PC, the clarity just isn't there! I wish that either this Company or some other Company would put more Delta and Atlas launches on DVD (provided that the launch vehicles had TV cameras on them to begin with). As for the rest of the DVD, it steers through what appears to be in-orbit TV camera viewing of the Martian surface (it could also be compiled stills transformed into a "movie" - I don't know: only JPL knows for sure!) and actual still images plus space art and facts on similar international unmanned missions that goes back to the 1960's. There are two modes for this DVD: Entertainment mode and Interactive mode. You need a PC with a DVD-ROM drive to access the few specifics (which I don't have so I can't comment on that area). If you hanker for high resolution images of Mars from orbit, or, launch footage at a low cost, then this DVD may be of some use to you.
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Summary: It's boring
Review: The interface is confusing. The scenes are presented without any explanation, then since you don't know what is it that your are looking at, the whole sequence becomes boring. The sound is not very good, additionally, the close caption is practically inexistent.
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Summary: I'm very dissapointed
Review: There are only snippets of usefull and interesting information, the videos suddenly stop. The "digital soundtrack" sounds horrible - never play classical music on a synthesizer! A new age soundtrek would've been much better. All in all I find this product superficial and incomplete. I'm sorry but I would't recomend this tittle.
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Summary: Neat idea...poorly executed
Review: This DVD really had me excited. A giant DVD packed with info, pictures, and video of Mars! Wow! Well, the idea is a novel one, it's just not all that great in reality. The menus are a confusing mess of links and you can easily end up really frustrated trying to figure out where you're clicking and what the icon you clicked on means. The DVD is seperated in two categories, operational and interactive. From what I've seen though, both basically have the same content. The interactive branch just offers more easter eggs and a more or less hands on approach to accessing the materials. This is where the DVD went from cool idea to being tossed into the island of misfit DVDs. The content should be easy to navigate through. It is not. You never know how to get to anything! Why couldn't they just categorized the pics and video into single menus listed as video and pictures?! They pretend to use this approach but the execution is far more nefarious. The DVD was obviously made to allow the user to "uncover" secret video clips or info but this approach just lead me to turning the thing off. The information is entertaining and educational but even the info is more or less abrupt, giving us the cliff notes version of Mars missions etc. The box also suggests that there is over 2,000 photos and something like 200 video clips. Yeah right! More like a hundred photos and a dozen video clips. I'm sure there are more in there somewhere but finding them becomes a thankless and unfun effort. This could have been a great DVD and while alot of what's on this disc is good to have, it's just not worth buying. Save some money and go to the library and rent some books on Mars instead.
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Summary: Great Novelity
Review: Unlike the previous reviewer of Mars: The Red Planet, this is a fantastic product! Not only does it provide a great deal of fantastic video, but the web interface is the key to an emergent technology that will revolutionize home education and entertainment in the early-twenty-first century. Soon DVD players at home will be embedded with a chip that allows home users, connected to the Internet, to bring a web interface onto the home monitor or display and bring real-time imagery and data directly into their home. Titles such as Mars: The Red Planet will be constantly updated with new information making these dynamic documentaries and encyclopedias of information and imagery. So bottom line: As an example of the future of value-added entertainment and education titles, Mars: The Red Planet should not be missed. For now, enjoy the power of exploration on your DVD-ROM connected the Internet. Tomorrow, get ready for the future of interactive multimedia like never before.
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Summary: Incredible Product for Demonstrating WEB-DVD Technology
Review: Unlike the previous reviewer of Mars: The Red Planet, this is a fantastic product! Not only does it provide a great deal of fantastic video, but the web interface is the key to an emergent technology that will revolutionize home education and entertainment in the early-twenty-first century. Soon DVD players at home will be embedded with a chip that allows home users, connected to the Internet, to bring a web interface onto the home monitor or display and bring real-time imagery and data directly into their home. Titles such as Mars: The Red Planet will be constantly updated with new information making these dynamic documentaries and encyclopedias of information and imagery. So bottom line: As an example of the future of value-added entertainment and education titles, Mars: The Red Planet should not be missed. For now, enjoy the power of exploration on your DVD-ROM connected the Internet. Tomorrow, get ready for the future of interactive multimedia like never before.
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