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Planet Earth

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Originally posted by: pontifex
wow...simply amazing show.

too bad i couldn't have watched it in HD. I bet that was fvckin unbelievable.

that vampiro toothus squid thing in the last episode was awesome!

so was tonight the 1st time it was on or what? i'm gonna watch the next time its on for sure though!


edit: they have the whole series for sale at the discovery.com store! i think i might order it. $79.95 - doh, not out until april. guess that would make sense since they're just airing it now.

i wonder if they have a soundtrack too? the music was great as well.
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I know; I've been looking for the song that they used in their commercial, alone.
 
Absolutely incredible images - especially on Discovery HD.

Does anyone else think that some of those underwater ocean scenes are computer generated?
 
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: sdifox
I got all 11 episodes in 720p 🙂 Galapagos too. Yes, I am in Canada 🙂
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mvgroup? 😉

they are awesome🙂

some 8gb 1080i out there too😛
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And British narrator to boot 🙂 no idea what mvgroup is. Care to illuminate?
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Sigourney Weaver is British?
 
I wish I was one of those camera men, that my dream job. When they say something is the first time it's been recorded, it really is. I think it's awesome that even scientists were amazed when they said they had footage of a snow leopard.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

g o o g l e
...is all i can say😉 the path to 11 eps of 720p + diaries eps is before you... ~2.15gb per eps
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I just need the making of...Got all the episodes already.
 
Originally posted by: Quasmo
I wish I was one of those camera men, that my dream job. When they say something is the first time it's been recorded, it really is. I think it's awesome that even scientists were amazed when they said they had footage of a snow leopard.
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that would be awesome but i bet its a lot of hard work and can be really frustrating at times
 
Originally posted by: feralkid
Sigourney Weaver is British?
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Let me guess, you watched it in the USA? For some unfathomable reason Weaver got tapped to dubb the series. David Attenborough is the original British narrator. It's not like Americans can't understand English lol.
 
great showing last night, watched and recorded all three....such a wondrous world. we are lucky to be able to see it in our own living rooms...kudos to those that made and produced them...very nice indeed.

I like the fact they emphasize the climate and those shots from the satellites were amazing...breathtaking

jC
 
I'd like to know if there was any computer generated stuff on the shows. Some places it really did look rendered or a fake "snow" was being computer generated.
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: mzkhadir
is this the same series that out on dvd, hddvd and bluray ?

http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Earth-Complete-David-Attenborough/dp/B000MR9D5E/
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that looks like the UK version

Here is the US version
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no, thats the US version. it says "Starring: Sigourney Weaver"
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the one i linked is the US version with Sigourney Weaver.

thats weird, on the amazon site it says starring sigourney weaver but in the title it says BBC and even on the page header says BBC with David Attenborough.

in the description is says:
"Original U.K. broadcast version narrated by David Attenborough"
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: mzkhadir
is this the same series that out on dvd, hddvd and bluray ?

http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Earth-Complete-David-Attenborough/dp/B000MR9D5E/
Click to expand...

that looks like the UK version

Here is the US version
Click to expand...

no, thats the US version. it says "Starring: Sigourney Weaver"
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the one i linked is the US version with Sigourney Weaver.

thats weird, on the amazon site it says starring sigourney weaver but in the title it says BBC and even on the page header says BBC with David Attenborough.

in the description is says:
"Original U.K. broadcast version narrated by David Attenborough"
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From MSNBC Newsweek:

The Discovery Channel partnered with the BBC to produce "Planet Earth," spending more than $1 million per episode?a fortune in the nature-doc universe. But every penny is on screen. "Every frame had to be a Rembrandt," says executive producer Alastair Fothergill. To paint on screen like grand masters, Fothergill's intrepid team used innovations like the heligimble?a motion-stabilized camera mounted on the belly of a helicopter?to record wild dogs on a hunt, from start to suppertime. Looming overhead, we watch as dogs strategically peel off from the pack to encircle their prey. In another brutally mesmerizing sequence, infrared cameras document a behavior never before captured on film: a pride of lions taking down an elephant in the dead of night.

"Planet Earth" isn't just 11 hours of animals eating each other. Fothergill's cameramen even manage to make thrilling TV out of watching grass grow. Other moments have a quiet majesty, such as rare footage of a Himalayan snow leopard. The animal, says Fothergill, "is the holy grail of wildlife filmmaking." His team whiffed on a pair of eight-week expeditions to find and film the cat, then got a tip that a female was lurking in the remote hills of Pakistan. There was just one problem: rumor had it that Osama bin Laden was lurking there, too. The crew waited a full year for the U.S. Marines to clear out, then went in and, Fothergill says, "got very lucky." Bin Laden. Marines. Snow leopards. Oh my!

 
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