Hawaii Beaches 1 / Waves Relaxation Nature Videos

Well in this crazy world we live in, who doesn't need some time on the beach listening to the waves? I know I do and getting to a Hawaiian beach that is thousands of miles away at any time is wonderful. Ahhh...

Best DVD for relation we have (out of over 30) . Thank You for such a GREAT DVD.Von and Lois

this is definitely what I was looking for. I wanted to give my wife something better than our home videos of Waikiki - at least until I can take her back there again. This DVD delivered in buckets.The beaches are just fantastic. The soundtrack is even better - because it is real. Yes, I got the real sound of the surf, a few birds chirping in the distance. No stupid music or commercials or people. Speaking of which, there's hardly any people in these shots. All of this might be enough to turn some of you away, but for me that was exactly what I wanted.The CD says HD on the cover, which made me wonder if I was going to get cheesy grain on my BlueRay player. Actually, it turned out nicely. I can't swear that it comes out as good as if I play a BlueRay disc, but dang it sure looks like high-def to my old eyes.Only 1 minus I can see. The colors are a bit saturated. No, I ain't no PrePress professinal, but I understand the fundamentals. So I ended up taking the contrast down on my tv to accomodate. Whattayaknow, my wife likes it better with the slightly-saturated colors! You can see it in the blue of the water and the red of the skies; sometimes. But if you're getting it for someone who *likes* it that way, then what's there to complain about, eh?Happy viewing to ya.

I love to pop this blu-ray disk into my Panasonic BR player (with Samsung 46 LCD TV) and watch for 15 - 30 minutes. Just long enough to 'deeply imagine myself there'. I've been to Hawaii 3 times now so I think that helps: I can mix my real-life memories with the scenes on the disk. I personally enjoy how these "Waves" series DVDs are produced: ~3 minutes per scene with nothing much to distract other than waves moving, fluffy clouds along the horizon, and an occasional kite or sailboat off in the distance. Pretty funny when you think about it, just set up a really nice HD camera with a solid tripod, shoot a 'scene' several times in one day (I assume) and choose the best 3-minute-ish combination of light, sky/clouds, and sounds.With this blu-ray format, the sand, water, clouds and sky really do pop off the screen. It really is virtually like looking through a clean window outside to a real beach. I don't so much enjoy this disc for the 'relaxing' aspects, but rather the warmth and bright tropical light that it exudes if you will.If you have the patience and imagination to really let yourself get immersed in the scenes, it can really give you a boost on a cloudy winter day.

It was with great anticipation that I waited for the delivery of this Blu-ray offering... Glowing five star reviews, as well as an endorsement claiming a soothing and calmingly pleasant video experience was to be had, all served to market this purchase for me as a positive experience.... First, the video was all that was claimed, albeit a bit one dimensional.While the beaches and sunsets were in fact, captured in all of nature's glorious colors, there was a glaring absence of people and a scant presence of wildlife? Small potatoes in my opinion! However, their presence would have added an element that was missing, something "Interesting" to watch!The thing that ruined this entire experience was the "God Awful!" horribly intermittent-audio track, which served to make this video a "Punishing!" headache inducing experience...I optimistically persisted through the entire video expecting that someone "anyone" would have addressed this glaringly obvious problem at some point, orperhaps even dubbed over this audio catastrophe!Before marketing!But alas! It was not to be!The only solution available therefore to the gullible purchaser, is to mute the volume, and enjoy only the wonderful video work or to dub in your own audio.************************************************I owe Greg Voevodsky an apology for my negative evaluation of his offering"Hawaii Beaches 1 Waves". Mr. Voevodsky bent over backwards to compensate mefor the poor performing Blu-ray video, after a lengthy explanation regarding the ever changing Blu-ray industry standards. I was at first "skeptical!"I had purchased a new Toshiba (Model: BDK21KU) Blu-ray player early in 2012 from Costco. It's purpose was to allow me to gain internet access to streaming videos from Netflix.The software version was Version 1.7 BDX2150 andit's software was dated "January 12, 2012" thus appearing to beas current driver as could be found for this player...My confidence was further bolstered by the fact that it'smanufacturer "Toshiba" was in fact the manufacturer, who'sproducts many corporations chose to place their brand names on...However, just as Greg Voevodsky had said... playing the exact sameBlu-ray disk that was the cause for my poor evaluation on my olderBlu-ray player (which I had given away) did in fact play without a glitchfrom beginning to end, over this past New Years Holiday.Mr. Voevodsky was generous to a fault, in his effort to compensate mefor my inconvenience. Providing me with a DVD version of"Hawaii Beaches 1 Waves" and two additional disks of their most recentlyreleased "Florida Beaches 2" on both Blu-ray and DVD disks. All at nocost to me!It is most unfortunate that the march of progress does not includesome "backwards" compatibility to avoid problem like this.And more so yet, for those producers like Mr. Voevodsky, who was forcedto try and explain "why" his production was failing to run as promised.Because of a change in the industry's Blu-ray audio standards.

The video quality is quite nice--very clear. It's the sound that confuses me. For each of the different island selections, the sound is not the waves. Instead it sounds like wind or a noise-cancelling machine. It can be disruptive; you're looking at the water, but you're not hearing the accompanying wave sounds. The good news is that there is a set of tracks where you CAN hear the waves in their natural glory. If you choose the "Music Remix" and then select "Nature Sounds", you will get true wave sounds that match the video nicely. In fact, choosing any of the music sounds actually results in better wave sounds (although in the background) than the main video tracks. In the end, I found what I was looking for, even if most of the DVD did not meet my personal needs.