Every home theater room needs at least one good video wallpaper program to play in the background when you're throwing a party. When it's not turned on, that big screen TV is just an ugly gray box eating up real estate in your room. If you want to show off that expensive purchase, naturally you'll need to turn the set on, and better not to distract your guests with a movie or TV show when they're supposed to be mingling with one another. What you need is a series of pleasantly innocuous images that look nice on the screen but can be safely left running in the background and ignored, and better still if they're in High Definition. The content of A View from Space with Heavenly Music should be pretty self-evident from the title. Shot in High Definition by cameras aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, the program is pure video wallpaper. No actors, no dialogue, no story, no plot. Just short of an hour worth of footage of the shuttle launching and eventually looking down at the Earth below, played over your choice of 8 different soundtracks featuring classical music from Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and others. Much of the imagery is very beautiful, some of the earthscapes positively breathtaking. If I have any complaint it's that despite 8 alternate soundtracks almost every piece of music is overly familiar and clichéd: "Ride of the Valkyries", "Also Sprach Zarathustra", "The Nutcracker Suite", Beethoven's "Symphony No. 6", "The 1812 Overture", "The William Tell Overture". You don't have to be a classical music fan to have heard each of these pieces a thousand times in a thousand different contexts. Frankly, it's something of a challenge to pick the soundtrack you're least sick of hearing already. If you can get over that one issue, A View from Space is a pretty good if imperfect video wallpaper program. It isn't something I'd be compelled to watch from start to finish on any regular basis, but I'd certainly be inclined to let it play while waiting for guests to situate themselves before a real movie starts.Read full review
This dvd does have a clear picture with great classical scores, it's about 1 hour long of launch and outer space footage but no deep space footage at all. The nice thing is you can choose which classical score you would like to hear while watching the 1 hour of footage (Mozart, Bach, etc) If you're an outer space junki then you would probably love this dvd but if you're one just trying to aww your friends with spectacular sights, picture and sound it might take a little more then this dvd :-)
This is a stunning visual journey for a space and science fan. There are 7 or 8 sountracks of great music to choose from. The hour of video is redundant though. It looks like they took the video during about 3 consecutive orbits, and then edited that down to an hour, so the areas they pass over each time is the same. But maybe I was paying too much attention. It's not to watch like a movie, but rather a background visual. Although, I was glued for the whole hour... twice! Beautiful! make sure you have a nice big HD TV and BLueRay Player. I'm glad someone pulled this off!
The high-def pictures are awesome. The content of watching the space shuttle and Earth from space was amazing. However, there was nothing telling us what we were seeing. Also, there was limited footage that had been looped again and again. So, you were really only seeing about 10 minutes of video that had been played over and over again. Why did they waste the time on the disc by having the same movie to eight different soundtracks? They should have put interesting information and other pictures of the Earth and space on it. The whole point of Blu-ray is for video, not audio. I am glad we only paid $5.00 and free shipping. It was a disappointment.
My husband owns a furniture store and is always having to change the DVDs he uses for the television displays. This has to be changed much less often because of the length,and has beautiful views of something you don't expect to see very often. The customers stop and stare, and television sales are up the past few days. The soothing music is much better suited for a retail atmosphere than the constant drone of a family movie. I am very happy with my purchase and am definitely impressed with the quality of both the sound and the picture of this DVD. I would recommend this item to anyone that needs an attention holding picture and non distracting background music.
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