Planet Dinosaur

For the record, this Blu-Ray will play on American BR players. I played it on a JVC player that is about 2 and 1/2 years old, and it played with no problems. I previously tried playing it in a Samsung player, and it would not play past the main menu. However, when I did a firmware update, it played. And my copy was ordered months before it was available on the American Amazon.com through Amazon.co.uk.

As far as the product itself, the quality is great, and it is an enjoyable program. One of the better dino-related "documentaries" out there since it focuses very heavily on more recent scientific discoveries.

The BBC's latest dinosaur documentary was all the talk among many of you when it was announced, even though we couldn't watch it here in America. (luckily we had "Dinosaur Revolution" to watch here in the US at the same time) Now you can watch it; well, sort of.

Planet Dinosaur is an almost three hour Blu-Ray disc showing all six episodes from the BBC series special. Narrated by John Hurt, the CG graphics are extremely well done. I know its an over-used word but I thought several scenes were truly awesome. In between the CG action scenes, we are shown various graphics and fossilized bones that tell us stories about the dinosaur's fights and their lives. The show provides some great, very up-to-date information; some of which, I dare say, you did not know. The first episode is set in prehistoric Africa, where we follow a Spinosaurus and meet Carcharodontosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Sarchosuchus, Rugops and more. The second episode is all about the feathered dinosaurs of China. Episode 3 covers the Late Cretaceous and the meat-eaters of that era. Part 4 is set in the Jurassic where we watch not only stegosaurs and allosaurs but marine reptiles too, including the huge Predator X. (It's a funny term, so I was surprised to hear John Hurt seriously use the word "Thagomizer" to describe Stegosaurus spikes.) The fifth episode is mostly about sauropods and other large dinosaurs and the final episode shows various dinosaur forms that evolved to help dinosaurs survive. I highly recommend the show; but, as mentioned at the beginning of this review there is a possible problem. The Blu-Ray would not play on my Blu-Ray player, even though it is supposedly for all areas of the world. I have a new laptop that plays Blu-Ray movies and fortunately it did fine on it. I also understand you can update your Blu-Ray player to where it will play foreign discs, but you have been forewarned. Check before you buy this DVD. However, I give it all five stars.

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The discs are for region B(blu-ray) and 2(DVD), none can be played by player for North America region. The descriptions should be clear about it.

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this item was purchased on 12/9/2011 as a christmas gift the day after christmas we went to watch it and it will not play it is telling us that the encryption code is not formatted for our blu ray player i have tried it in others with the same result. very disappointed spent a lot of money for dvd we can not use

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This is one of the best, if not the best dinosaur documentary I have ever seen! My favorite part about it is how it features species of dinosaurs that I don't usually see in other documentaries, like Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Microraptor. The series is very detailed and gives a lot of information. Another thing about it is that it isn't just a bunch of dinosaurs eating things and fighting each other. When they fight, eat things, or have certain features, it always explains why they are doing what they are doing or why they look how they look in the film, usually with fossil evidence. I also find that the series is very accurate except in a few cases. (Example: The Troodons do not have feathers, which many scientists think that they did.) Overall, I think this is an excellent documentary, and is worth the $10.99 that it costs.

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