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Summary: Bad Quality, Very Disappointing
Review: Cool DVD for chillin' out. The kids even enjoyed this feature filled aquarium DVD. The seller was right on with the fast delivery and quality product. I'd recommend getting this one with all 5 aquariums for a better variety and value. Spin a big boy, turn on the aquarium, and relax.
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Summary: My new fish tank......
Review: Earlier this year I saved my pennies and bought a 50" plasma screen. It's great for home cinema but when I'm entertaining guests and not watching the screen, it's a large black hole on the wall of my living room, until now that is.This DVD is the perfect solution. Instead of being faced with a boring featureless black void, my guests can now gaze at my fabulous collection of marine fish. The bonus is, I never have to clean the tank or feed the fish! I bought the Coral Tank version but I assume they are all variations on a theme and would perform more or less the same function. I Take on board what other viewers have said about the size of the fish on a smaller screen, but on the plasma screen, the proportions are perfect and I think, very realistic. The DVD also has some extra features for your PC including a fishy screen-saver, which gives a slideshow of each of the inhabitants of the tank. It also has printable high-quality photos in PDF format and a copy of Acrobat Viewer if you do not already have it. I love it and I intend to buy the other versions!
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Summary: painless fish
Review: Fish tanks are expensive. Fish are expensive, die, and they eat each other. Unless you have major bucks, and/or have duce taking care of them, fish are a pain. The other guys that said you can't change the view ratio are wrong. These changes are made at the dvd setup menu, not the software set up, its under monitor output setup on most dvd units. All 3 work fine. Surf & bubbles sound tracks are cool, but the music sucks. It is very nice on my 61" with component video input. 5 stars.
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Summary: How comes 15 hours video?
Review: I have bought it. For full tank view, I give 2 stars. The fish tank is too large to present details in DVD resolution. For close-up view, it is my favorite and I give it 4 stars. The play of close-up view is rather short and sometimes out of focus. The last thing I want to mention is there are 5 fish tanks. Each provides 1 hour full screen and 15 minutes close-up playback. I don't know how comes the 15 hours video playback as mentioned at the back of the box!
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Summary: AQUARIA IS AWFUL. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!
Review: I just received and watched 'Aquaria' and am astounded that these people see fit to charge money for this trash!!! I recently had a high-end 50" plasma / surround sound system installed and I thought Aquaria would be something like the impressive aquatic computer generated screen savers available today. What did I get? Some lousey, low-end video (no, not even filmed) of murkey fishtanks. Total ripoff!!! You'll have more fun watching wet towels dry. I would have given it no stars had it been an option!
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Summary: Appaling display of Coral and Fish
Review: I used to have reef and fish tanks, getting to old to do the work required to keep these animals. Thought a vertual aquarium would fill the need, but when I saw the deseased corals and fish with clearly visable parasitec infections I became very angry. This horrifying display of aquatic life should not receive any support. I hope that the general public does not believe that this is what coral or salt water fishtanks should look like. I see nothing beautiful in any of these diplays. They are a poor representation of even the worst PETSHOP aquarium dispays. I wish I had never seen this video, it has at least ruined this day for me. NO STARS
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Summary: Aquaria DVD Is Not 15 Hours Long!
Review: Out of the 5 fish tanks presented. I prefer the classic one which consists of several large pieces of different shaped white coral with a black back drop and pure white sand. You can choose in the menu if you want the same fish tank to repeat after it runs it's time limit of 40 Minutes. The close up runs another 10 minutes. I bought this product because I thought I was getting 15 hours and your really only getting little over 4 hours with all 5 tanks included. That disappointed me greatly, so I deducted 1 star. Everything else, is fine. Bubble and ocean sound effects are nice. Granted the replay to infinity button will probably run 15 hours. You really can't tell the difference once it starts over again, but it's the blatant misrepresentation that the tank was going to last at least 4 hours each. I'm running it on pan and scan 4 by 3 full screen. I hope this review helps! I would still buy it anyway. The picture quality when using good dvd and tv really makes it shine.
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Summary: eye candy
Review: The dvd picture quality is marvellous! I didn't watch all the 15 hours yet but whenever I take the time to relax my mind and heart, this is one new possibility added: watching Aquaria and listening to the music. Some fish are rather small in "full tank view" but on the whole I do not regret at all this purchase. Hartly recommended!
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Summary: Misleading
Review: The DVD says this can be viewed in 3 different formats; 16:9, 4:3, and Widescreen. Not so. The only view offered is widescreen. It also says it's 15 hours long. Wrong! 5 different tanks, each last 1 hour in full view, and about 15 minutes in close up view. So in full view the DVD is about 5 hours long; in close up about 1 hour 15 minutes. If you use the "repeat" function it could be 15 hours long. The picture quality is very good in close up view but only fair in full tank view. For each tank, they provide a "Fishography" which describes every fish in that tank.
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Summary: (just) acceptable
Review: the grades I give for the 5 aquarium types are:
Classic: close-up 4 stars, wide 3 stars; Freshwater: close-up 3-4 stars, wide 2-3 stars; Coral Reef: close-up 4 stars, wide 2 stars; Natural: close-up 2-3 stars, wide 1-2 stars; Exotic: close-up 2-3 stars, wide 0-1 star
The playing time (of each aquarium) of close-ups is 7-8 minutes (should've been longer). The wide shots playing time is 25-27 minutes on cd 1 (classic, coral reef, natural) and 40 minutes on cd 2 (exotic, freshwater).
The classic and freshwater aquaria are nice enough to look at in the wide shots, also because of the background but the other aquaria aren't really examples of fine composition in that area.
Background music/noise choices: not too bad.
A third cd, more time for the close-ups and more attention for aquarium composition would've made this collection (a lot) better !
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