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Format : NTSC
Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0647715072627
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : DVD
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Studio : D3
UPC : 647715072627
ASIN : B00004VWUF
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It looks like all that money NASA spent on the Hubble Space Telescope was worth it after all--at least from an aesthetic standpoint. Stargaze: Hubble's View of the Universe captivates the viewer with stunningly high-definition color images of galaxies, nebulae, and heavenly bodies closer to home. Each shot pans and lingers over the richly colored pictures as unobtrusive narration in English, French, German, or Spanish explains the history of the Hubble mission, its targets, and what we've learned so far. The music by 2002 is harmless and quiet, though viewers pathologically averse to New Age will scramble for the audio control. Including screensavers and Web features, Stargaze will keep spaceheads happy and entranced for hours, and convert the unbelievers. --Rob Lightner
Customer Reviews
No poet present. (2004-07-29)  This video gave me a lot of great pictures from Hubble. It was just what I expected--picture-wise. However, the first half (about) of the spoken narrative is mind-bogglingly out of place and inappropriate. When the DVD opens, we see a fantastic presentation of the universe in a series of truly wondrous hubble shots and we are longing to understand what we are seeing--hopefully expressed with just a bit of poetic language fitting the visions. What we get as a narrative accompanying this magical vista is a dull, technical and totally inappropriate treatise on Hubble history. This video isn't about Hubble, Dummy, it's about the stars!! Later on in the video the narrator finally turns his attention to what we're seeing on the screen and it's very fine from there on. Whoever designed and approved the narrative accompanying the first part of this DVD was not mentally connected to the main thrust of the wondrous video--the glorious and magical cosmos exposed. In spite of this major failure, I'm glad I have this DVD tucked away in my rack. (Suggestion. Turn off the narrative until (about halfway along) it begins to discuss what you're seeing. Cheers. Don.
Great DVD! (2004-05-13)  This DVD is great! I expected less, but it was exactly what I was looking for! Just a bunch of great pictures and great music to go with them. The feature where you can turn on/off the audio narration and the subtitles is great! This way you can either learn a little about the pictures, or just relax. I liked it so much that I instantly bought Part 2! Good stuff!
Somewhat disappointing (2004-04-13)  I expected the photos to be sharper and was hoping to hear more about what was being viewed. The DVD is strangely designed (for example, the default soundtrack mode is music only and it's not immediately obvious there is a narrated track).
Hubbles View of the Universe: EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS IT IS (2004-02-11) I can see where the negative reviews are coming in from this title, but the negative reviewers obviously thought this was supposed to be some sort of computer generated movie of the universe. If they had any knowledge of Hubble or Space, they should realize that there is no movie footage of the cosmos they are speaking of...only pictures. No where did the DVD state that you should sit back and enjoy a wild ride, expect to get your learn on, or fail to communicate what this was. It's HUBBLE's VIEW of our Universe set to music and motion. If you want to be extremely educated then goto the NASA website and print out the pages and read along. For the commentary comments..what were you expecting? Sunday Sunday Sunday...at the Nebula this Sunday, Monster STARS!!! Again this isn't some Hollywood title with one of the actors doing the commentary, it's a voice over person explaining what is on screen. If you don't like it, switch back to the music track (you are NOT forced to listen to anything and they have multiple audio tracks with just music, music and narration, just narration, and so on. As for the subtitles, it shows what you are looking at on the screen. Could there have been more information, of course, but this is a DVD, it's for viewing, not reading. The title shows us the beautiful images that the Hubble space telescope has taken up to the year 2000. Just staring at the images and what is out there is mind blowing and when you set it to a music track, it even gives it more of an ghostly or erie feeling (if you don't like new age, then what did you suggest? Rock? Rap? New age is what fits with space, if you don't like it, turn it down and put on your favorite music track). There is a StarGaze 2 coming out this Summer and according to their website, they have addressed the positive suggestions of the reviewers on here and have made the zooms show more of the images, it is progressive scan (can't wait to see the new images look even more amazing!) and they have informational pages on every object shown on the title. I for one like my StarGaze. Is it something I throw on at a get together...not really, maybe to show some astronomy fans, or a friend (in fact, the non-astronomy people seem to be more sucked in then the space geeks). I watch it when I want to relax or when I am in a deep mood it makes me realize how small we are compared to what is out there. I would take the negative reviews with a few grains of salt and also the positive ones. It's more then just a screen saver, but it's not a movie. It's a special interest title. If you have any appreciation of titles like this, and don't go in thinking you are getting Hollywood special space effects from George Lucas or Star Trek, then I think you'll enjoy it.
WOW! WHAT AN AWESOME DVD!!!!! (2004-01-28) I love this DVD! You people with the negitive reviews kill me! If you can't figure out how to get the narration (Audio 4), maybe you shouldn't buy educational DVD's. Also, complaints on the content being a "slideshow"? Hello!!! The Hubble is a telescope not a movie camera morons!!!!!! I guess they don't really understand what they are looking at or the significance of the scientific break through the Hubble is. What this DVD provides is beautiful, crystal clear images that have never been seen before with ground telescopes. The DVD runs about 1 hour and I wish it was longer. But the content is incredible! The narration is dry, but who cares? The information is mind-boggling. Even I have a hard time comprehending the size, distance and space-time factors of the images on the DVD. I really can't stress what a revolution in astonomy the Hubble is and I am greatful we can all share in its glorious accomplishments. Negitive reviewers take a beginner DVD course or something! AHHHH! GOOOOOO HUBBLE!!!!!!!
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