Exactly. I think in the commentary after each episode they discussed how they were able to capture certain shots. I'd have to go back and watch but I think they specifically talked about the wolf pack shots and how they used some special helicopter mounted camera system. It took around 5 years to capture some of the footage we saw on film...if they had planned on just faking the shots it could have just taken them 5 months.
Amen, amen, amen. Planet Earth in HD is the best video (cinema, TV, music video, CGI shorts, whatever) of any kind I have seen anywhere, ever. It is mind-blowingly beautiful and no person with an HD set should be without it. If I was selling HDTVs all I'd have to do is keep playing Planet Earth on Blu ray over and over. Once I saw a HDTV playing that I knew I had to have one, even though I couldn't afford it.
so this is now a planet earth discussion and yes none of that is fake it took years and a lot of money to film that entire groundbreaking series. i remember watching the extras portion on discovery when it aired and one of the camera man who was trying to shoot the snow leopard scene said he had to wait like 10 months in siberia to get that one shot and he broke down emotionally after he was able to get it. either way Planet Earth is by far the best thing you can watch in HD and its super informative to watch too. The exotic birds and their mating dances crack me up
I didn't realize that was possible. The Narration made it difficult for me to watch in the past. I will look for the UK version then. Awesome.
I believe all the HD versions (hddvd and blu-ray) have attenborough as the narrator. I dont know if the DVD versions have susan surandon as the narrator as the discovery episodes did.
I hope it makes it. I think they will lower the prices and the prices of the dvd's and they will start selling. I have a blu-ray player and it is much better than an upconverting player or HD cable tv. Love it
Sigourney Weaver does the American/Discovery Channel version. David Attenborough does the BBC/original version. I actually don't mind Sigourney Weaver's narration, and may actually prefer it. I'd have to listen to the BBC version. I've watched the thing in HD so many times on the Discovery Channel, I've gotten bored with it now. lol.
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I think the answer is in a combination of BR and digital download. BR looks awesome and people will always want physical media (for the most part). Still, there's going to be a big section of the market for DD. It's already started. And we are just now making HDTVs mainstream. For a lot of people, the upgrade that DD can offer for their new HDTV is pretty significant in it's own right. And it's everywhere: right now I can get movies on Comcast service iTunes Netflix (XBOX) XBOX Live PSN and then of course the physical disc Netflix sends me. Lots of options that are becoming more 'mainstream' every day.
I read somewhere that they are developing a new video compression format that will allow HD movies to fit on a standard dual layer DVD. LIke MPEG 6 or something
That is already possible (HD movie on DVD). The trick is getting the video quality to look as good (or better) than what Blu-ray offers. Guess it could be possibly eventually, but it would probably take a pretty big increase in hardware specs. Blu-ray players already have some pretty good hardware IIRC. Seems cheaper/easier just to increase disc space.
DVD when it came out just had VHS to go up against. Blu Ray has already effective DVD and more convenient digital download to go up against. So more quality formats to compete against in a lessened economic climate. If Blu Ray only had 1 format to go against like DVD did, it'd have a better adoption rate. And surprisingly its adoption rate is still decent. So Blu Ray is doing what it should be doing, not better but not worse either. Just they might have over-speculated its impact of wiping out previous video technologies. Blu Ray isnt revolutionary, its just a step up like the next version iPhone. Better quality for sure but not enough to make me look at my current gadgets with contempt. So to get the desired impact they'll have to force the issue kinda like government mandating higher fuel emissions standards
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What the heck are you talking about? Planet Earth took them 5 years to film and put it into their story telling. Time lapse isn't CGI. You call this fake? The reason it look a bit unrealistic because of the super-clear slow motion showing what we think the motion doesn't look right to how we perceive things in life. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-t2ayKadD0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-t2ayKadD0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I can't believe you think this is fake? <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A0E6geAq1k8&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A0E6geAq1k8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object> You're getting different point of views here. And yes, there are such thing as million of caribou in the north.
