Aquaria / Ws & Ac-3

Edition: DVD Genre:  Miscellaneous  Movie  Visual Arts

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Editorial review:

Saltwater aquariums are breathtakingly beautiful, but onerous to maintain. The exception is The Classic Aquarium DVD--a "no-care" aquarium with white sand, exquisite coral formations, large barnacle clusters, and a host of colorful tropical fish. View the full aquarium with the 40-minute full-tank option or follow the paths of individual fish in the eight-minute close-up segment. Tranquility and beauty reign in either, and each sequence offers a crystal-clear picture and a repeat function for continuous play. Audio choices include gentle beach surf, authentic aquarium bubbling, and New Age relaxation and meditation musical tracks in both DTS and Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. An on-screen "fishography" provides aquarium enthusiasts with detailed information about the natural habitat, diet, temperament, and care of 12 individual species of fish. DVD-ROM extras include screensavers and a fish calendar. Just think of this as tranquility through television. --Tami Horiuchi

Customer reviews:

The Aquarium

This DVD is nothing more or nothing less than promised; a beautiful aquarium full of salt water fish and coral. The background audio gives a choice of breaking waves or bubbles. One quick attempt to use it as a computer screensaver failed but did not give it a large effort as this is not what I purchased it for. I have had good comments from several friends who saw it on my television in my RV while on vacation at the beach.

Great idea but disappointing, I'm afraid

I had great expectations of this dvd as I have come to the conclusion that I won't be able to have my own salt water aquarium in the foreseeable future. I was disappointed with it, I'm afraid to have to say. Perhaps I have been spoiled by my local salt water aquaria "petshop" which has a very nice 1800 liter salt water aquaium with many live corals, anemones and tropical fish species. Now these dvds came out in 1999 and since the WMVHD "Coral Reef Adventure" came out, this dvd just cannot compete and doesn't have any of the color quality, focus, or detail that one could hope for. The better of the various aquaria in my opinion is the "The Classic Aquarium" and "The Fresh Water Aquarium" so I would recommend just ordering the single dvd instead of the "The Complete Aquarium DVD Collection" if you absolutely need one to tide you over until when they start producing HD aquaria dvds. I found both "The Natural Aquarium" and "The Coral Reef Aquarium" very disappointing with not-so-clear water, poor focus, unnatural colors, disappointing detail, and not very many different fish to look at. I do like the idea of a loopable aquarium dvd and with the dawning of HD dvd, it shouldn't be all that difficult to produce a new and better series. And I am sure there are many more beautiful aquaria to film - with more "depth" and content to them - than the ones used for this series.

Excellent quality, beautiful clarity and colors, just two things ...

I love this 2-set DVD - it's really like having an aquarium. I'd recommend it to anyone. Just a couple of things: I can only select the bubble sound, the other options don't work. Nor was I able to access any additional features via computer DVD drive - and I tried it on two different of my computers (a VPR Matrix and a HP Pavillion.) But if you're not interested in the additional features and just want very lifelike, gorgeous colored, ample selection of aquariums to enjoy, you can't go wrong with this DVD collection.