AMAZON 3D - In The Heart Of Wild Nature (Blu-ray 3D & 2D Version) REGION FREE [3D Blu-ray]

I did not really expect much from this disc as I have been extremely disappointed in the 3D videography in many of the nature documentary features lately - and this is not a BBC or IMAX production. What a surprise! The 3D is shot with the "window" purposely set back so that many items in the view actually DO COME OUT OF THE SCREEN ON A REGULAR BASIS. It is a disc that I will be using to illustrate proper 3D camerawork.As to the content - well, it is just as others have described. 90% of the content is that of the jungle plants in the Amazon forests, and of the water levels in those forests at various times of the year when the Amazon floods the plains. Very little content of animals. And the narration, mostly in the middle section of the disc, is up to 15 seconds ahead of the pictures it is describing - and it can get quite annoying. This is a pressing or editing fault and really should have been discovered. And the lag time varies through-out the disc. The music, on the other hand, does cue up to the photography - but it tends to get monotonous.So, if you are interested in 3D videography - get this disc. If you are interested in an interesting video on the Amazon - by all means get the IMAX 2D Blu-ray "Amazon," it is far more informative and entertaining. What a shame it was not filmed in 3D!

If you have a big 3D TV in your house and you are desperate for 3D material that is not animated or horror, then you might appreciate this documentary. But do not expect an Attenborough type film. This is not even close to being a wildlife documentary.You will see a few wild creatures but the Jaguar pictured on the cover is not in the film. You will see the top side of a Jaguar that is a captive animal, and a few other captives, and you will see a handful of birds perched in the forest, and a few vultures which get overtime due to the overall lack of animals captured on film. There is a lot of wonderful footage of the forest and a lot of water from a surface viewpoint, which I enjoy, and the 3D effect of the film in the forest is great if you want to feel like you can pick leaves in your living room. But you're going to want to do it with the sound turned off, becuase the mournful violin music is dreadful and the narration is not good enough to overcome it. You will not hear the natural sounds of the forest at all. If you have a rainforest CD maybe you can play it while you watch the video and sort of get into it. The timing of the narration is even a little off.

Wonderful, full 3D, with good resolution in screen, long depth, and excellent protrusion out of the screen when appropriate. Viewed in 3D projected onto a 120" wall screen, it's just like being there. To take this guided (narrated) trip down the amazon with the amazing river scenes, animals, jungle, and people settings (plus powerful musical accompaniment) would take a month and cost 10's of thousands of dollars. This 3D disc is worth watching many times over. It's a fascinating immersive journey into a rapidly vanishing, magical world. I watched it in segments over several months, savoring the experience. Bravo!

Oh jeez these Ken Wright videos are terrible. I have 4 of them and they all suffer from low production quality, boring photography and cheesy 3d overlays on 2d backgrounds. Why oh why doesn't Amazon hire somebody to preview these before they offer them to the public? There aren't enough 3d productions and my thirst for content led me to trust Amazon's promotion. Ugh these videos suck; Yellowstone, Africa too! Pull these dogs off the market. It is certainly possible to do this well in 3d. National Geographic has a few solid productions. This producer needs to watch them to learn about narration (banal and mindless blathering) and what comprises a beautiful sweeping vista (Ken focuses on a boring plot of grass for minutes at a time--so dull).

Lets start off with the positives:The 3D is shot with actual 3D cameras. There are some amazing shots that pop out of the screen.The narration is remarkably better than Ken Wright's previous releases.The bitrate is noticably higher than it was on Europe's Most Beautiful Places.They seem to be using newer cameras than they did on Europe's Most Beautiful Places.There is a music-only trackNow for the negativesI wasn't able to get past 20 minutes of this. Maybe the BBC and Discovery has spoiled me, but I found this boring. This is very much an amature production. The entire show looks like it was filmed in a wildlife perserve - in one of the early shots, there is clearly a fence in the picture.Some shots seem to be recycled over and over again.This is mostly a video of plants. Kinda misleading compared to the cover image.Narration around the 15 minute mark gets to where it is about 20-30 seconds ahead of what is onscreen. They are talking about iguanas, but you are looking at images of grasshoppers. They start talking about a a rainbow lizard, and they switch to the video of the iguana. They then start talking about the river, and switch to the video of the lizard. Music when we see the river, then they start talking about a yellow-feathered bird, but you are looking at white birds. When you do see the yellow birds, music is playing.The 3D depth of field jumps greatly from one shot to the next. Many of the early shots are shot from a distance, and there is almost no 3D effect. Quick transition to a closeup of a branch sticking out of the screen, and as soon as your eyes and brain adjust, you are thrown into another shot with another 3D depth being used. The issue is - while the shots individually look neat, the constantly changing field of depth produces headaches. I had to pause the video after only 10 minutes and shut it off completely after 20, and I can normally sit thorugh an entire 2-3 hour 3D movie.Some shots look like they were shot without adjusting the iris or color balance on the camera.In a nutshell, its NOT HORRIBLE, but it certainly was not what I was expecting. I will admit, though, that my expectations were lower after having a couple of this guy's other discs, which may be why I am not being as hard on the discs as others are.Just don't go into this expecting a professional production. There are some amazing shots here, but just be prepared for watching a lot of plants.

Great

I enjoyed watching this natural documentary. Very relaxing, very good 3D effects of Amazon jungle, river and trees. Could be done better, but the point is, that it is very relaxing.

Not as good as some of the pothers out there, lacked the dimensional shots that it could have given and focused too much on areas where 2d would have done, little tedious to watch so would recommend speed watching it.

This 3D film flat out sucks.There's nothing educational about it. The footage is stock from (like a previous reviewer pointed out) a dude on a motor boat lazily filming down the river.The jaguar on the front cover is seen in spurts near the end, from above (most likely in a zoo).Some of the 3d is actually decent, but there are a few scenes when it loses focus and causes your eyes to strain.The audio track is almost 10 seconds off the actual footage, so when you're viewing stock footage of black vultures, the narrator is speaking about the exciting 5th largest tortoise in the world living in the amazon.Other animals "documented" include a caged monkey, a caged "ferocious" jaguar, some lame birds, more lame birds, and there's a 3 second look at a lazy crocodile sitting in the sun (probably caged as well)DO NOT PURCHASE THIS ITEM.

Well yet again have I had to supply a bad wildlife/nature DVD review!!Both myself and my partner agreed that we should compile another review to help others be aware that there are some really bad DVD's out there, no matter what the case illustration and info depicts..Being massively interested in Natural History and Wildlife we are keen to watch any footage, but it's as boring and laborious as this then it's definitely a NO GO!What's worse is with the lack of information about the producers etc in the advertisements etc it appears that we have had work from this company before let alone the robotic Narrator is just short of making you want to top yourself. In fact we made a serious complaint to Amazon about the previous one which was a "Yellowstone 3D Americas Greatest Wonder" which bares so much resemblance to this video we both looked at each other in disbelief when we heard the droning introduction and the music! Amazon assured us our complaint was being taken seriously and they have a team to look into such complaints, so let's hope they do this for this film before many more of you waste your hard earned cash!Some of our points may be repeated in line with the Yellowstone DVD, but that is what confirms to us that it is probably the same people involved in it's production.Looks like an inexperienced film crew have bought a new 3D camera and are taking it out for a test.The Cameraman likes long drawn out shots of boring subjects, mainly the end of tree branches with leaves on??The edits are lousy, with badly pieced together scenes.The music is really hard work, boring and not suiting the film at all.A real real annoying part of the film is the narrator talks about things 10 seconds before they happen....so you may be looking at a bird whilst he is talking about a monkey???There are dynamic animals and scenes on the cover/sleeve but 90% of this DVD is about trees and roots?The only plus point for the film is the last 10 minutes of footage are average, containing more wildlife shots and info, still out of sync though!!As stated before if you see our other reviews we very rarely issue a bad review, but this DVD needs highlighting. Do not waste your money, the only reason we ended up with this one (As we now always read many reviews before purchasing DVD's now) is we pre-ordered it with it looking like a great piece.Our advice, stay with Attenborough, national Geographic and the BBC they are unbeatable and they should be saluted for their work. It's films like this one which merely highlight their true dedication to our planet and the life forms on it, thank you!We have offered a 1 star rating and that is merely for the last 10 minutes of this production--