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.

No no no! You want the edition narrated by David Attenborough. Booo.

David Attenborough is a god. His ball cheese tastes like chocolate.

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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!!

Sigourney Weaver's ball cheese tastes like an aged gorganzola.

both have ball cheese?

um, HD DVD died...

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.

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.

Look at the stupid Blu-ray burp who have to pay $50 more on exactly the same thing.

Nice deal, I've been waiting for it to come down to this. I also have Blue Planet, excellent!

HD-DVD rocks. Death or otherwise.

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.

#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.

#14 You're an rodeo cowboy. 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.

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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.

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.

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?

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.