Product Description

Imagine a world colored by ice and fire carved by hurricane-force winds weighted by glaciers and teeming with wildlife perfectly adapted to freezing conditions and winters of perpetual darkness. Experience the beauty of wild white blizzards and fire-red sunsets reflected in a glassy sea. Antarctica Dreaming explores the Antarctic peninsula South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands and features five species of penguins four kinds of seals fierce seabirds and the most spectacular scenery on the planet.Format: DVD HD Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST UPC: 647715301321 Manufacturer No: DVDI 3013

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45607 in DVD
• Brand: Ryko Distribution
• Released on: 2007-04-24
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

HD DVD = excellent
I have always liked nature docs about Antarctica and was hoping this would be a worthy HD view of the landscape & wildlife... which it is. The cinematography is very well composed, excellent detail, etc. Even the xtra features were better than I anticipated, in HD as well. I wish there were more high quality HD DVD nature titles avail, but considering this was not done by the BBC it is very impressive. A+

audio very disappointing
Although the picture quality is excellent, this film moves very slowly and the commentary is very slow and plotting.Reminds me of some professors I had in college. This makes for grate visual or backgroung to show off your HD capabilitues. Unlike Planet Earth ( The best of both visual & educational) this DVD is just visual. Yes I will keep it, but wished I had purchased something else.

Really Good HD ambient
The video quality in this title is extremely good. As noted in the review by D. Eidam, there are some minor compression artifacts in some of the darker background shots, but even then the foreground is very good. The selection of content was also very good, none of it seems like it should be on the cutting room floor. The inclusion of some time lapse landscapes of clouds was well done and in many places action is modestly slowed down during action.
The ambient music is very complimentary and does not detract as it has in some of the other HDScape titles.
After Planet Earth, this one is a definite buy (for anyone interested in nature content). If you just want to show off the capabilities of your HDTV, this could also accomplish that, but I'm sure other titles would end up ahead of this one.