Like the
Walking with Dinosaurs
series, the quality has been reproduced here perfectly. Zero artifacts and a
crisp, clear anamorphic 16:9 widescreen image with plenty of colour to its
cheeks.
The stereo soundtrack is perfectly fine with clear dialogue and dino roars, but there's
nothing to stretch your sound system over such a brief period of time.
When it comes to the extras there's a plush silver Booklet containing
some info about Big Al and the reasoning behing the programme, a 56-picture
Photo Gallery and five minutes of Storyboard Comparison.
Finally, the DVD-ROM content included is the "Walking with Dinosaurs
CD-ROM sampler", containing: Dinosaur sounds, Desktop wallpaper, Stills
screensaver, Icons, Cursors and eight video files.
There are 14 chapters in total (8 for the main programme and 6 for the
second), subtitles are available in English and Dutch and the main menu
contains subtle animation and music from the programme score.
Overall, this DVD is recommended to anyone who enjoyed the WWD series
and can't get enough, but for the casual viewer, fifteen pounds for an hour
of material that's more like a piece of supplemental material on its own
may be too high a price.
FILM CONTENT PICTURE QUALITY SOUND QUALITY EXTRAS
OVERALL
The following is a list of all the Walking With Dinosaurs DVDs reviewed online to date :
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
