On the Galapagos Islands, young marine iguana must escape an onslaught of deadly racer snakes the moment they hatch from the sand. His introductory remarks in Episode 1 are delivered as voiceover, but his concluding speech in Episode 6 an extended plea for conservation has been eliminated. A red-eyed tree frog takes a rest in the jungles of Costa Rica. A chain of salt lakes, found at over 4,000m high in the Andes, provide a safe refuge for flamingo colonies. But 1080p cannot fully convey the dazzling intensity of a source that was expressly designed to be seen at a higher resolution with enhanced contrast and color.
No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. In January, the island of Zavodovski is covered with penguin chicks. A mother three-toed pygmy sloth carries her baby on her chest. The digital cameras bring these creatures much closer to the viewer than one could ever hope to approach them and, in many cases, survive the encounter. This is called interlacing, and it's what we all grew up watching. Blu-ray release, but they have packaged the discs differently for North American viewers.
Therefore it is not 1080i! I made that sound completely wrong. They took every other horizontal line, showed that for a fraction of a second, then they took the remaining horizontal lines and showed that for a fraction of a second. The rare pygmy three-toed sloth enjoys a peaceful existence on an idyllic Caribbean island, while nesting albatross thrive in predator-free isolation. When I watched Planet Earth, it was playing in glorious 1080p 24fps. I've just read through this thread trying to get a good understanding if one region's version of Planet Earth on Bluray is better than another's, and I'm shocked to see what I've read.
These Hanuman langurs have free roam in the blue city of Jodhpur, India. The idea of being in the middle of a swarm of a billion flying locusts might bring most people out in a cold sweat, but not cameraman Rob Drewett. I do not own the original footage and I am not making any money out of it. This thing tries to send you a. They may proclaim it is their downloader, however, it is an exe file. A hatchling marine iguana sits on the head of an adult at Cape Douglas, on the island of Fernandina.
If you really like this I suggest you to watch the hole documentary because at the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. But don't be a jackass. A similar phenomenon affects the leaves and branches of dense foliage, which tend to blur into a generalized mass of textured green and brown as the camera pulls away. Countless varieties of animal vocalizations occur both on- and off-screen. Respect the community, and do not consign their comments to the memory hole. The reason is that the documentaries were shot at 25fps, and the Bluray standard doesn't allow for 1080p25. I hope that makes things clearer for people to understand.
After I have watched all eleven episodes, I tried to compress the best shots in just one montage. There may be as few as 3,500 snow leopards left in the wild. It took another three months for the series to reach our shores, with U. Downconverted from the 4K master, the image still manages to reproduce the series' many wildlife closeups with an intensity that is almost three-dimensional in its rendering of fine textures and shadings of fur, feather and scale. But island life always comes at a cost. A serval cat in South Africa leaps 3m through the air to attack her rodent prey.
You should not trust sites like this. Deserts In this episode we visit the world's deserts, a land of extremes that pushes life to the limit. Always message the mods instead of attacking users in public. On top of that you risk the fact that the. Rain, surf, volcanic activity and the roar of an avalanche are among the many enveloping environmental effects. A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting a giraffe several times their size, whilst male sand grouse fly nearly 200 kilometers each day from their nests to the nearest waterhole, simply to collect water for their chicks - and when they arrive there are predators waiting for them.
Whats worse than people on forums talking nonsense is that if you look at Amazon or Play. Many years will pass and I doubt other series will reach this quality and cinematography. All of them display the familiar style of the Planet Earth series, and the major difference is the appearance on camera of producers, photographers and other crew, who are braving hardships, hazards and the vagaries of weather and terrain to capture a rare encounter or a vista that's never been seen before. Or make beats with narwhal sounds! Journey to the four corners of the globe to discover the extreme forces that shape life in each of these iconic landscapes and the remarkable ways animals manage to overcome the challenges of surviving in the wildest places on Earth. Even where contrasting colors enhance visibility, e. The editors have done a superb job of shaping the raw material to provide a narrative flow, and Attenborough's voiceover remains a lively and essential component of these tales from worlds rarely seen by the human eye.
We follow alongside the beautiful indri as she bounces through the forest in Madagascar, and we stay out late at night to witness glow-in-the-dark creatures never before filmed. It can't possibly display all 1080 at once, so it interlaces the image, taking every other horizontal line for a fraction of a second, and then the remaining horizontal lines, so fast that your brain thinks it's seeing all 1080 horizontal lines at once. Every day, one and a half million penguins risk being battered against the rocks by fierce waves as they try to get on and off the island. Leopards prowl the streets of Mumbai, peregrine falcons hunt amongst New York's skyscrapers and a million starlings perform spectacular aerial dances over Rome. . Again, this is providing that no image filtering was done during the mastering stage, but I doubt anyone but the person who mastered the blurays would know that. My ultimate point is, and I hope you understand: That a Planet Earth Bluray at 1080i is better than one at 1080p, despite what everyone in this thread seems to think.