BBC does it again - Blue Planet

[Jonathan]

Finally my copy of Blue Planet has arrived and well worth the wait. If you have a DVD player that supports region 2 and a TV that supports PAL get your order in - you won't be disappointed!

I am extremely jealous already of the divers that filmed this and I've only watched the first two episodes. It's great to see on film but what it must have been like to be there and seen it for real......

Only slight critisms are that the music sometimes gets in the way and it repeats itself a little.

Check it out! I think it goes to the States next year sometime so watch out on Discovery.

Jonathan

 

[sillago]

Admittedly it's really nice to watch but you seldom realise how much effort was put into those documentaries. I was with a couple of crew when filming some of these doco's while they were in Australia and although they end product in the show is incredible, they really worked at it!
Though I must admit sometimes it was quite entertaining watching the crew try to make a lifelike reef 100m from the shore in a really large tank !! (oops..hope I didn't burst anybody's bubble there!! :bonk: ) ..sharks and fish included!

 

[Thresher]

It's one of the most amazing and beautiful documentaries about the ocean which I've ever come across. The camerawork is absolutely brilliant, plus the narration is by my all time favourite, Sir David Attenborough.

Did you see the toys they were playing with in the 2nd episode - The Deep? I'd do anything just to be in that submersible, 4000m in the abyss.

It's still running on TV here down to the sixth episode. I'm definitely getting the DVD once it's out in the shops.

 

[UKPhil]

I actually met one of the producers at the Birmingham dive show, they spent the last 5 years making the series. I haven't got the DVD yet, but they showed 'the making of' segments at the end of each program which went some way to showing the work that went into it. A masterpiece.

 

[UKPhil]

I have just bought the DVD set from Amazon UK and its marked as region zero (I assume this means no region coding). Full running time of the 3CD set is approx 8 hours!

 

[Jonathan]

UKPhil - the only thing our US buddies have to be aware of though is that there TV must be able to take a PAL feed........

Jonathan

 

[neilstewart]

Brilliant series I agree.

Hey UKPhil just up the road in Harlow, I'm in Welwyn Herts. We must have been at the dive show on the same day as I also attended Martha's presentation.

Neil