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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 24 February, 1986 |
| MANUFACTURER: | DVD International |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 647715072122 |
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Customer Reviews of Mars: The Red Planet
Neat idea...poorly executed This DVD really had me excited. A giant DVD packed with info, pictures, and video of Mars! Wow! Well, the idea is a novel one, it's just not all that great in reality. The menus are a confusing mess of links and you can easily end up really frustrated trying to figure out where you're clicking and what the icon you clicked on means. The DVD is seperated in two categories, operational and interactive. From what I've seen though, both basically have the same content. The interactive branch just offers more easter eggs and a more or less hands on approach to accessing the materials. This is where the DVD went from cool idea to being tossed into the island of misfit DVDs. The content should be easy to navigate through. It is not. You never know how to get to anything! Why couldn't they just categorized the pics and video into single menus listed as video and pictures?! They pretend to use this approach but the execution is far more nefarious. The DVD was obviously made to allow the user to "uncover" secret video clips or info but this approach just lead me to turning the thing off. The information is entertaining and educational but even the info is more or less abrupt, giving us the cliff notes version of Mars missions etc. The box also suggests that there is over 2,000 photos and something like 200 video clips. Yeah right! More like a hundred photos and a dozen video clips. I'm sure there are more in there somewhere but finding them becomes a thankless and unfun effort. This could have been a great DVD and while alot of what's on this disc is good to have, it's just not worth buying. Save some money and go to the library and rent some books on Mars instead.
It's boring
The interface is confusing. The scenes are presented without any explanation, then since you don't know what is it that your are looking at, the whole sequence becomes boring. The sound is not very good, additionally, the close caption is practically inexistent.
Interesting Video Arrangement to Keep Your Mind Occupied
I purchased this DVD principally for the launch footage from the television camera on the first stage of the Delta II launch vehicle. Like the later launches of the Mars Climate Orbiter, Polar Lander and the Stardust from Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral AFS, it was exciting footage, and, it was on DVD! Before MECO and vernier engine shutdown, you can actually make out the condensation (ice) streaming away, bit by bit, from the first stage of the Delta II. I thought this really great resolution because whenever I watch the playbacks of the other aforementioned Delta II launches via PC, the clarity just isn't there! I wish that either this Company or some other Company would put more Delta and Atlas launches on DVD (provided that the launch vehicles had TV cameras on them to begin with).
As for the rest of the DVD, it steers through what appears to be in-orbit TV camera viewing of the Martian surface (it could also be compiled stills transformed into a "movie" - I don't know: only JPL knows for sure!) and actual still images plus space art and facts on similar international unmanned missions that goes back to the 1960's. There are two modes for this DVD: Entertainment mode and Interactive mode. You need a PC with a DVD-ROM drive to access the few specifics (which I don't have so I can't comment on that area).
If you hanker for high resolution images of Mars from orbit, or, launch footage at a low cost, then this DVD may be of some use to you.