'World's Most Beautiful Places' - High-Def Digest review

[jed]

Peter's review of 'Living Landscapes: The World's Most Beautiful Places' is up.
Featuring 75 minutes worth of beautifully photographed nature scenes from around the globe, Peter says this is perhaps as straightforward a Blu-ray release as is possible, delivering very fine video and good-enough audio, but nary a single supplement in the package. If nature porn is your thing, this one's defintely worth a shot.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/livi...beautiful.html

[Fettastic]

I had the unfortunate experience of buying Living Landscapes Hawaii disc and it is total crap!

The video does not look good at all. In fact it looks like upconverted video. It was obviously recorded on a cruddy consumer video camera.

The soundtrack is abysmal. The cloying muzak will make you want to hang yourself and you can't turn it off. Where is the nature sounds only track?

Also, at 16 minutes in, the screen just goes gray...then flicks back on. This is inherent in the source because you can pause and step through as it happens. Apparently nobody thought this was a big deal.

These discs are burned on consumer BDs. The label on the disc is created on a home PC. The Blu-ray logo is nowhere to be found anywhere on the disc or packaging.

These are pirate discs sold by amazon. The quality is bad and none of the BD features are present. It is quite clear that some guy thought he could hoodwink people into buying his vacation videos that don't feature anything but shots of plants so he doesn't have to pay anyone or get any releases signed.

Living Landscapes are a SCAM! Pretty unfortunate that a reviewer doesn't seem to care about it or even capable of noticing all the artifacts and softness present in every single frame.

If you buy any of these discs, you will be sorry, that I can guarantee.