Like peanut butter and chocolate, nature shows and HD are two great tastes that taste great together. And judging by the frequent appearance of "
Planet Earth" on the
VideoScan charts, the couple makes good business sense, too. As much as we love "Planet Earth," though, adding more titles to the genre is a good thing. Take heart, PBS is doing its part by bringing "Nature" to Blu-ray. With 26 seasons under its belt, it's safe to assume there's plenty of good footage; hopefully they've gathered up the best HD bits for the releases. Come May 20th, indie distributor Questar will be bringing out four titles: "Desert Lions" (originally aired 2008 in HD), "In the Valley of the Wolves" (originally aired 2007, shot in HD), "Under Antarctic Ice" and "Shark Mountain" (both originally aired 2003, fingers crossed on picture quality). Yeah, we can't guarantee those last two won't be a little "soft" looking, but we can guarantee that for your $25 retail, you can watch without any pledge drive interruptions!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MrSatyre @ Mar 13th 2008 12:44PM
This is good news for me, as even OTA and cable HD feeds of my local PBS station WETA are chock full o' block noise and smearing (due to the fact that they are still broadcasting from a very short antenna while surrounded by buildings and trees). Sometimes it's unwatchable.
GhostDoggy @ Mar 14th 2008 7:13AM
Its the only way I'll get to see this television show in high-definition. While both my local PBS affiliates have working DTV transmitters, they just refuse to air anything other re-broadcasting analog SD. FCC should take away their DTV licenses.