Wild China - Received Early

[cathexist]

Well, I got Wild China from Warner today, a full 8 days before release (woo right?). Here's the kicker though...it was open.

I received The Lost Boys, Dark City, Ganges, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next today in the same shipment, but Wild China wasn't wrapped or anything, seems to been in good shape, no damage, discs are there, no smudges or scrapes. I just found it strange that I would receive an open movie...especially an open movie that's supposed to come out in another week.

I didn't have problems with Warner Shipments forever, but my last two have been hell unfortunately.

Well...I'm going to watch Wild China tonight

[muathusanjose]

Please tell us how it is compare to Planet earth, similar or better, how is PQ ??

[rickyricardo]

I ordered this yesterday, I hope its good!

[SoCalTiger]

Awesome! I preordered this too (but through Amazon). Please let us know how the PQ is!

[cathexist]

I'll be watching most of it tonight, so I'll let everyone know how the PQ is afterwards.

(Glad to see some people interested, Planet Earth hooked me and Galapagos continued that, so I have high hopes for Wild China and Ganges).

[SoCalTiger]

Originally Posted by cathexist

I'll be watching most of it tonight, so I'll let everyone know how the PQ is afterwards.

(Glad to see some people interested, Planet Earth hooked me and Galapagos continued that, so I have high hopes for Wild China and Ganges).

We watched the first ep of Ganges last night. I thought it was pretty good in terms of PQ, content and narration. The only downside is that there is more coverage of humans in Ganges whereas in PE there was none really.

[horseflesh]

Hang on a second......
do all 4 parts of the boxset have narration by David Attenborough?
Didn't Sigourney Weaver do the American Planet Earth?

[NoQuestion]

I may pick this up at some point depending on the PQ.

[alexakajeff]

I won't pick this one up.

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by alexakajeff

I won't pick this one up.

Are all your will/won't pick up posts little reminders to yourself, or are you just sharing??

[SoCalTiger]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

Hang on a second......
do all 4 parts of the boxset have narration by David Attenborough?
Didn't Sigourney Weaver do the American Planet Earth?

Yes, Sigourney Weaver did the US broadcast of PE but David Attenborough was the narration on the Blu-ray sold here. I think it would have been best to have both narration tracks on the discs, IMO.

[cathexist]

This one is narrated by someone else...I didn't check who. The PQ is up there, not quite on par with Planet Earth, but it's pretty good, not great. I've only watched the first episode so far, and they DO talk about people a lot, not just nature and animals...which in some ways is disappointing. However, it keeps your interest. AQ is better than Galapagos (although that's not hard to do).

UPDATE: After watching a few more, PQ still on the lower end...there are some nice vivid shots, but nothing near Planet Earth

[docmanjay]

just watched the first episode of wild china..very interesting topics...pq can very from day time shoot of lush greens and vivid colors 4.5 to 5 and night time shots a little grainy pq 3.5 but over all good...

also some updates to the specs from listed here on the maine page...the 2 discs are 1x25bd and 1x50bd and recorded at 1080i

i bought from wb site at less then $20 so well worth the purchase for subject pretty unknown to me...not prefect but overall i give pq 4

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by cathexist

This one is narrated by someone else...I didn't check who.

Any chance you could check? Please

[micks_address]

There were two versions of planet earth released in the US, the original with David Attenborough's commentary and then the version shown on National Geographic in the states. The episodes shown on National Geographic were slighly shorter in length than the BBC version to accomodate advertising.

Higdefdigest have reviews of both

US version
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/983/planetearth_us.html

Complete BBC Series
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/668/planetearth.html

Originally Posted by horseflesh

Any chance you could check? Please

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by micks_address

There were two versions of planet earth released in the US, the original with David Attenborough's commentary and then the version shown on National Geographic in the states. The episodes shown on National Geographic were slighly shorter in length than the BBC version to accomodate advertising.

Higdefdigest have reviews of both

US version
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/983/planetearth_us.html

Complete BBC Series
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/668/planetearth.html

That's ringing a bell now.
If you bought from National Geographic you got Sigourney Weaver's narration, and from anywhere else you got David Attenborough.
Is that right??

[micks_address]

Well i think if you bought the National Geogrpahic specific US version you got the sigourney weaver version, whereas the BBC version is David Attenborough..

Originally Posted by horseflesh

That's ringing a bell now.
If you bought from National Geographic you got Sigourney Weaver's narration, and from anywhere else you got David Attenborough.
Is that right??

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

Any chance you could check? Please

Bernard Hill is the English narrator for Wild China

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by cathexist

Bernard Hill is the English narrator for Wild China

Thank you.
I didn't see them all on TV, I can't remember if it was Attenborough who narrated it over here.

[danielpwnz]

Anyone notice that this uses AVC?

Warner does all the BBC ones here, right? All the previous ones have been VC-1, at least.