Hawaii Beaches 1 / Waves Relaxation Nature Videos

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.

Love this dvd. Watch it every morning on my day off to the take the stress away and unwind. Overall quality is great on my 32 inch TV. Don't know if the quality would be good on a bigger TV, but this is great for me.

This is the beaches and waves from all over the Hawaiian Islands from early morning sequentially until sunset! Man’s presence is minimized to promote the observer’s peace and relaxation! The sounds are the sounds of the waves rolling, crashing, and a few quieter moments. No storms, no talking, the sounds of beach birds in the background at one or two places. It is awesome! The videographer moves around the four main islands so you are not stuck any one place too long. There is scenery variety, so you will not get bored, but the changes are not intrusive! Human music of any kind will grow old at one time or another, particularly after numerous repetitive times they have been played; the sounds of the waves? The sounds of the waves, particularly in this unusual mix with the scenery variety, will never grow old!!Try it, online first, then for those times you are far away from the sea, and the peace and calming effect of the timeless ocean - you will have it to remember, relax, Hawaii ...

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.

This is the perfect way to bring a little bit of Hawaii home and great way to fall asleep to the ocean sounds

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.