Product Description

Product Description The Living Landscapes Collection is a series of High Definition programs designed to create sensory-immersive experiences of the world's most stunning natural environments. These mesmerizing programs use High Definition video to bring your home theatre or computer screen to life, transforming your living room into a Living Landscape. This Blu-ray "best of" program features naturally recorded surround-sound for a true nature experience and relaxing music by Emmy Award winning composer Gary Malkin and others. an inter-active playback feature allows you to select any one of 9 HD environments for continuous repeated playback. Experience the peace and tranquility of the Grand Tetons reflected in pristine mountain lakes. Descend into the mists of Costa Rica's cloud forest as hummingbirds and macaws fly across your home theatre sound space. Feel the warm rays of the sunrise peaking through golden clouds on Maui's famed Haleakala Crater. Transport yourself to a warm tropical beach in the middle of winter and visit the island paradise of Bali. Experience the truning of the leaves in New England or the stark beauty of the Pacifc Coast from Carmel to Washington state. These are a few of the many magical moments you will have as you peek through the HD window into the World's Most Beautiful Places. Living Landscapes Video Collection will forever change your experience of television! BLU-RAY DISC FORMAT manufactured by Sony will play on all Blu-ray DVD players.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4735 in DVD
• Brand: Victory
• Released on: 2007-04-25
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 75 minutes

Review
Transforms your television into a mesmerizing and peaceful journey through glorious, exotic locals. Filmed in High-Definition, gentle background music and 5.1 surround sound add to the immersive experience. Great for anyone recovering from illness or needing a mental respite- they feel like they've been on vacation after watching this --New Age Retailer Spring 2007

Review
You'll be hard-pressed to find a single shot in 'The Most Beautiful Places in the World' that doesn't tickle the eye. I was particularly impressed with the cleanliness of the source -- it's crystal clear, with excellent blacks and very natural contrast. Colors are vibrant, yet very clean -- and they're refreshingly free from oversaturation. Detail is often exquisite, and the sense of depth is often akin to looking out of a freshly-scrubbed window. --Reviewed by Peter M. Bracke HiDef Digest

Review
This is an excellent soothing and relaxing DVD. If you are a working and commuting individual, then you need sleep and rest. Medications are good, but Nature is the best medicine without any bad side effects or hangovers to experience afterwards. This DVD's natural sound of birds and ocean waves and cinematography is well balanced. You can hear the ocean waves and sea birds, while calm background music is playing. It has the new loop effect, so you can put it in your TV/DVD disk drive and at the end of the series, then the Pacific coast will continue to play until you decide to stop it. It takes your imagination (as if you were looking out of a picture window) and look into the face of nature. So save yourself some money and skip the Airport TSA lines, baggage checks, plane tickets and relax in your favorite armchair with a cold drink and watch Mother Nature put you to sleep in the safe environment of your home. Let the RICH keep their oil, along with its high prices. I await the future DVDs. Please add squirrels and sandpipers, as animals. Thank you for sharing your relaxation ministry with the world, at such a time as this. --Cherith's brook (Nation's Capitol, USA)

Customer Reviews

Stunning video. As good or better than the pic on the cover
Just got a copy of World's Most Beautiful Places, and it is exactly what the title projects it to be. Absolutely gorgeously filmed, Hi-Def locations and landscapes from all around this beautiful planet, expertly framed and edited, compiled here from their other full length disc sets. I played it, expecting to use it as pretty, moving backgrounds, but was captivated to sit and watch the whole thing in one setting. The music is appropriately soft and elegant, along side the background sounds of streams, wind, ocean waves. This disc is easily on par with my other nature disc, Planet Earth, but without all that talking. It will make a specatular "screen saver" in my front room, ever reminding me of the magnificent contrasts of nature's natural beauty. I will be buying the rest of HD Environments BluRay discs very soon, and look forward to their future releases as well. It's a wonderful production that met AND exceeded my expectations, so that is five stars in my book.

Wow! what a great use for HD!
This program makes me glad I turned my livingroom into an HD home theatre. We can't believe how fantastic it is to be transported to what truly seem to be some of the world's most beautiful places in the comfort of our own home. The colors, the clarity and most of all the amazing places I've never seen make this a breathtaking experience. The natural surround-sound is over the top.... I seriously thought there were songbirds in my house when the Costa Rica and Hawaii chapters were playing. I'm tempted to get some of the other programs in this collection.

Onscreen ID "bug" sucks -- big time!
The inclusion of an ID "bug" for the entirety of every other segment mars what would be a very nice disc. What idiot thought it would be OK to use such a thing on videos of "Most Beautiful Places?"

For this reason I cannot recommend the purchase of this disc. They should be giving it away if they insist on using it for advertising.