Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77113 in DVD
• Released on: 1998-11-24
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Georgian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

From the Back Cover
FLOATING HUNDREDS OF MILES ABOVE THE EARTH
Load this disc into your computer or DVD player, sit back, relax, and luxuriate in EARTHLIGHT'S beautiful digital video and original 5.1-channel instrumental music. It's heaven!

The thundering liftoff of Atlantis
The brilliant blue of the Pacific
The majesty of the Himalayas
The vast red dunes of the Sahara

Customer Reviews

Earthlight's video ocean segments need to be cut.
I bought Earthlight: Special Edition with much anticipation, as it was billed as the space shuttle view of earth. I was disappointed in the video segments. While it is true that 70% of the earth is water, there is a limit to the interest generated by showing cloud formations over water. 70% of the video segments are over the Atlantic or Pacific ocean with no land in sight. Within these segments there are a few where you can see land approaching and thats' where the video segment ends. It's as if they asked NASA, "What are the most uninteresting video segments you have on all your shuttle missions. We want to make a DVD out of them.". That being said, the still photographs they have are marvelous. They are all land or island shots. The screen saver software will load them on your HD. They have additional stills available on the web site that can be unlocked from the DVD after they are paid for. Wait for Earthlight: The Land Edition, if your interested in this sort of thing.

Relaxing, high quality images of Earth from space
This DVD features beautiful, digitally filmed, views of Earth from the Space Shuttle set to relaxing music, some of it Brian Eno-esque. Unlike the previous reviewer, I find there is quite a bit of variety to the scenes, from city lights on the U.S. east coast at night, the MIR spacestation, to the Sahara desert. The video quality is truly excellent -- this is probably the best looking DVD I own. Earthlight SE is great for relaxation -- do not expect thrills and chills.

Amazing views of our planet, plus a thunderous launch
Seeing tis magnificent Atlantis launch and hearing it in roaring 5.1 dolby is solely worth the price of the dvd. lus, you get many, many shots of our beautiful planet, crisply videotaped from the space shuttle missions. You get to see most part of the south emisphere of earth, along with USA at night, most Asia and Arabia and South America. Subtitles in more than 10 languages let you know what you are looking at, and the ethereal, space music really lets you get in the mood for watching, meditating or simply enjoying the pictures. Dont let it pass.