Discovery Channel's Planet Earth in HD

Daz

Anybody been catching it? Truly the most amazing, inspirational TV I've seen in a long time. The old adage of 'truth is stranger than fiction' definitely reigns supreme here. If you have HD it's not to be missed:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/planet-earth.html

Joshua Stubbles

Yeah, I've been recording every episode so far
Absolutely stunning show. Five years in development. Some of the camera men had to endure unbearable circumstances to get these shots. Truly breathtaking.

flaagan

Marine had to go and ruin the thrill by pointing out the Brits got to watch it last year.

It's damn cool stuff, may try and get the dvd's since we don't get hd-cable.

sonic

flaagan: it's just not the same without HD man

I agree that it is quite amazing. I also liked the Discovery Atlas show they had on Discovery HD for a while. Is it just me, or does the Discovery Channel easily top every other HD channel in terms of color and quality?

Rick Stirling

Aye, it's stunning. Marine was right - we had it a year ago with David Attenborough narrating. It's on constant repeat on one of the UK Living/ UK History channels.

Do you folks get the 'making of' parts at the end of every episode?

Tulkamir

Damnit all, this really makes me wish I had cable at all. (Let alone HD).

mikebart

Dont have discovery channel so I havent seen it but If you like that sort of thing look out for a film called 'Baraka' in HD its pretty amazing, same genre.

hawken

only a year behind eh? not bad!

In the UK there is one HD channel and the play Planet-Earth on repeat 24 hours a day.

MoP

Yeah, I've got this on DVD, it's awesome.

Slum

I tried to buy the box-set DVD for my dad for xmas, but I could only find the PAL version. Hopefully they come out with an NTSC full set.

HonkyPunch

I still have only used my hd-capable tv for the 360.

skankerzero

I'm watching and recording the entire series. It looks fantastic in HD!

flaagan

Sonic: My projector does hd, my cable signal doesn't.. it's like having a brand spankin' new nvdia card... and only having Quake1 to play on it.

Joshua Stubbles

Rick, yeah we got those making-off pieces as well. Some great insights to the development of the show. I particularly liked the one on 'pole to pole', where they showed some air balloon apparatus. Poor camera man go flown right into a tree! doh!

Brilliant stuff.

Fuse

dont think we get it on discovery channel canada ... shame i love discovery HD