planet earth

marvella · #1 01/05/08, 04:22 PM

i've been renting this bbc series from netflix. has anyone seen them? they're spectacular!!

i think it could make almost anyone iinto an environmentalist. what an amazing world we live in!

pixelphotograph · #2 01/05/08, 07:08 PM

i love it i have it on hd dvd i also have blue planet on imax on hd dvd both are amazing.

Ravenlost · #3 01/05/08, 08:01 PM

We saw a few episodes on TV so I got the whole set for hubby's Christmas surprise.

Tracy Rimmer · #4 01/05/08, 08:22 PM

This set was the reason we upgraded to HDTV.

It's brilliant. We've turned several people onto it. I've been told that the DVD set is often used in places where they sell the HD-TVs to show people how amazing the picture can be.

I understand that there is an "Americanized" version with Sigourney Weaver narrating, but I have the British version, and how could anything be better than David Attenborough?

dixiegal62 · #5 01/05/08, 09:49 PM

I got my disk set at target a few weeks ago, I put it in my closet then forgot about it. After reading this thread I dug it out and started watching the first disk, its amazing! A mans doing the narrating on this one, he sounds british.

Tracy Rimmer · #6 01/05/08, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by dixiegal62

I got my disk set at target a few weeks ago, I put it in my closet then forgot about it. After reading this thread I dug it out and started watching the first disk, its amazing! A mans doing the narrating on this one, he sounds british.

That's David Attenborough. He's a British naturalist -- and has been doing television nature shows for years.

marvella · #7 01/06/08, 06:26 AM

i was hooked from the first show, where birds in the amazon are mating.

who knew there were so many amazing things... from fish building nests, porpoises picking up rocks in courtship, shrimp cleaning up dead things in water too cold for bacteria... and the snow leopards! rarely seen before by human eyes...

numb, i may take you up on it. pm'd ya.

deaconjim · #8 01/06/08, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Tracy Rimmer

I understand that there is an "Americanized" version with Sigourney Weaver narrating, but I have the British version, and how could anything be better than David Attenborough?

We like David Attenborough. DW bought this series and it is very good. Worth every penny.