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Planet Earth: Complete Collection HD-DVD $30 at Discovery Store
 
Discuss (126) : History : Tell : Posted 3:16 PM PST 02/22/08 by Ben
Planet Earth: Complete Collection HD-DVDThe bailout continues. Discovery Store has the Planet Earth: Complete Collection on defunct HD-DVD for $30 with free shipping. This release includes all the episodes (4 DVDs) from the original Discovery Channel production. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver. [Info]
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    #1   SpacemanSpiff - Posted 3:19 pm PST 02/22/08 (253 Posts)
    Awesome series. And I'll bet it looks great in HD. Pick up one of those cheap Phillips HD-DVD players as your upconverter and consider this as a cheap perk.
    #2   bruincal - Posted 3:23 pm PST 02/22/08 (239 Posts)
    No no no! You want the edition narrated by David Attenborough. Booo.
    #3   techsupport - Posted 3:25 pm PST 02/22/08 (2584 Posts)
    David Attenborough is a god. His ball cheese tastes like chocolate.
    #4   nuisance - Posted 3:27 pm PST 02/22/08 (10903 Posts)
    This used to be $60. I'd hold out buying until we turn the entire planet into a toxic waste dump and they start giving these away for free with a rebate.
    #5   linkmon - Posted 3:32 pm PST 02/22/08 (144 Posts)
    Awesome HD DVD set. Definitely recommended. I hope that all the HD DVD's drop fast because I'll own all of them!!

    Til death do us part HD DVD!!
    #6   grnge4evr - Posted 3:35 pm PST 02/22/08 (75 Posts)
    Sigourney Weaver's ball cheese tastes like an aged gorganzola.
    #7   itzsm00th - Posted 3:37 pm PST 02/22/08 (743 Posts)
    both have ball cheese?
    #8   ehtoanokuso - Posted 3:57 pm PST 02/22/08 (113 Posts)
    um, HD DVD died...
    #9   gutterba11 - Posted 4:02 pm PST 02/22/08 (171 Posts)
    Unless you have the vocabulary of a nine-year-old, get the original with Attenborough's narration. The intro music isn't as epic, but the script is a hell of a lot better.
    #10   Knarly - Posted 4:04 pm PST 02/22/08 (387 Posts)
    Why do people buy HD-DVD's and Bluray?

    What a waste of money. Rent it from NetFlix when you want to see it and use your money for something else.

    Now they have the option to download movies instantly making owning something even more irrational.

    I've bought maybe 5 dvd's in my entire life and only because they dirt cheap. Look at all the people VHS collections, then DVD collections and now HD collections...stop wasting your money.
    #11   australopithecus - Posted 4:08 pm PST 02/22/08 (1781 Posts)
    Look at the stupid Blu-ray fuckers who have to pay $50 more on exactly the same thing.
    #12   jklyank - Posted 4:10 pm PST 02/22/08 (163 Posts)
    Nice deal, I've been waiting for it to come down to this. I also have Blue Planet, excellent!
    #13   EmuMessenger - Posted 4:16 pm PST 02/22/08 (283 Posts)
    HD-DVD rocks. Death or otherwise.
    #14   bargainjp - Posted 4:21 pm PST 02/22/08 (313 Posts)
    The problem with HD-DVD media is incompatibility to future equipment. Since this format is dead, purchasing any product with recorded in HD-DVD means dead.

    You still want to buy DVD or even VCD, because all Blu-Ray or Computer CD/DVD rom can read them, NOT HD-DVD.
    So, don't even bother paying $30 for piece of incompatible junk. Though they are smart enough to put in the 4 DVDs formats for Blu-Ray players, though not in HD.... sad.
    #15   bargainjp - Posted 4:29 pm PST 02/22/08 (313 Posts)
    #10, I feel you, but I'm the extreme believer and supporter on the Internet download and streaming technology. I believe download and streaming are the true future. Owning content on a media is useless. You still own the video though, but you don't necessary need to worry about losing or damaging the physical content because you can download or stream it anytime you like.

    Planet Earth is actually a good program to own as a collection. It's very different compare to NetFlix or other one time view movie titles. Planet Earth has a lot of replay value.
    #16   australopithecus - Posted 4:36 pm PST 02/22/08 (1781 Posts)
    #14 You're an idiot. Is anyone stupid enough to buy Planet Earth HD-DVD for $30 and then pick up a cheap HD-DVD player in order to play it?

    Whoever will buy this already have HD-DVD player. Even though Blu-ray won and most of us will buy Blu-ray sometime down the line, why pay $50 more for this?

    Also, how is Blu-ray compatible with future equipment? You will still need a Blu-ray player, don't you? The only difference with HD-DVD is that you won't be able to find a brand new player in case something went wrong with the hardware.
    #17   bargainjp - Posted 4:46 pm PST 02/22/08 (313 Posts)
    #16
    I'm refering to future in 5 to 10 years. Just like DVD ROM can read CD, Blu-Ray can read DVD and CD, so assuming the next generation of drive also reads Next gen disc, Blu-Ray, DVD, and CD, but not HD-DVD.

    However, I guess by that time, no body really using optical drive or any type of physical media distribution. We all do download and streaming.
    #18   TexasFury - Posted 4:56 pm PST 02/22/08 (453 Posts)
    and maybe one day, just one day, you guys will actually come out from your parent's basement and actually get to see this Earth we live on! Until then, this will be a good primer.
    #19   m0f0 - Posted 5:01 pm PST 02/22/08 (7751 Posts)
    This deal is pretty tempting, but I'm just not comfortable buying HD-DVD media until I see a clear winner emerge in the HD format war. I mean, what happens if Blu-Ray wins and my HD-DVD player and all the disks stop working?
    #20   TexasFury - Posted 5:10 pm PST 02/22/08 (453 Posts)
    mofo, blu-ray isn't safe. i'd wait till Versatile Multilayer Disk beats out blu-ray, like it already did to hd-dvd, before buying.
     
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